BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices. The vision of the Greater New York Councils is to serve children throughout the diverse communities of New York City and to help them to prepare for success in school, career, and life. The Greater New York Councils teaches a lifelong appreciation of physical and personal fitness, bullying prevention, environmental stewardship and sustainability, leadership development, and STEM education.
About This Cause
The Greater New York Councils, Boy Scouts of America has helped over five million young people become “Prepared for Life.” In 2014, we served 46,378 boys and girls ages 6-20 throughout the five boroughs. New York City is a tough place to grow up for kids from low-income neighborhoods, where test scores are low and crime rates are high. These young people need more positive adult role models as well as safe after-school and summer education and enrichment opportunities. Our comprehensive approach offers a variety of year-round programs to help youth reach their full potential. A recent survey indicates that Scouting programs successfully address critical building blocks of healthy youth development (as identified by youth development researchers at the Search Institute). We do this through weekly after-school meetings, weekend trips, and 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week during summer camp experiences. We operate 12 months of the year. Additional activities include community service projects such as our Scouts in Parks Day, trips to numerous New York City cultural attractions, weekend camping events, Pinewood Derby competitions, and much more. Children learn by doing. Teaching young people how to innovate and invent is built into all of our programs. Whether creating a Pinewood Derby car, pitching a tent, cooking a meal, constructing a greenhouse, conducting a mock trial, making a video, designing a computer game, or building a robot, Scouts and Explorers learn both practical and life skills that lead to success in school and the workforce. • We offer 9,300 at-risk boys in NYC’s most struggling communities a unique year-round Cub Scouting program in partnership with public schools, offering a safe haven with positive role models and literacy help. • Over 8,100 boys and girls enjoy a week of summer camp at Ten Mile River in upstate NY, Camp Alpine in NJ, and Camp Pouch in Staten Island, and over 84,000 children and adults enjoy camping experiences with us year round. • Volunteers are key to our success: we engage close to 5,000 volunteers as trained, caring mentors to NYC kids, who contribute 250,000 service hours to our community each year. . • We offer worksite-based career education in our Exploring program to 7,100 disadvantaged young men and women, including posts at every police precinct in NYC, as well as at a wide variety of industries. • 90% of our Exploring high school students are on track to graduate on time, and 80% of those over 18 are enrolled or have been accepted into college. • A national study found that men who had been Scouts were more likely to graduate from high school and college, and youth with Scouting experience reported achieving better grades than non-Scouts. • NYC Scouts have been recognized for their contributions to the community: Eagle Scout Kenneth Shinozuka received the Science in Action Award by Scientific American and exhibited his life-saving invention for Alzheimer’s patients at the White House this year. • We have always adhered to a strict non-discrimination policy for both youth members and adult leaders and we welcome everyone to join in our goal of helping NYC kids become extraordinary adults.