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Finance Chairman - Marjorie Musgrave - 770-479-6048
Family Friends of Scouting Campaign
Dear Unit Leaders, As you begin, and many finish, planning your unit's program calendar for 2012, I remind you our hope is that every unit participates in the district's annual Family Friends of Scouting Campaign. With December just a few weeks away, there is no better time than now for your unit to invite a Friends of Scouting representative to your next Court of Honor, Blue and Gold, Pinewood Derby or other highly attended unit gathering. Your unit's participation plays a vital role in ensuring that a premier Scouting program is available for the many thousands of youth and adult volunteers that are part of the Atlanta Area Council. You may not realize it, but Friends of Scouting helps secure the funds needed to support unit programs such as training, insurance, program materials, advancement materials, camping facilities and programs, council and district activities, and much more. Attached, you will find a detailed list of the many services offered by the Atlanta Area Council. As the Council's primary source of funding, Friends of Scouting provides more than a third of the money needed to operate per calendar year. Our district's piece of the pie for the 2012 Family Friends of Scouting Campaign is $50,000. It is imperative that we achieve that goal to help Scouting thrive for you and the children of your unit. I ask that you please complete the Family Friends of Scouting Campaign Contact Form by December 1, 2011 to set a date for your Friends of Scouting presentation. Your participation will help train young people throughout the Atlanta Area Council in citizenship, service, and leadership, as well as prepare them to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes. Thank you for leading by example and being among the first to schedule your Family Friends of Scouting presentation, and thank you for your continued commitment to Scouting. Yours
in Scouting,
What is Friends of Scouting?
Friends of Scouting is the annual campaign where the Atlanta Area Council asks Scouting families, businesses and civic-minded citizens to support our mission of providing the Scouting program to tens of thousands of young people in the Atlanta Area Council.
Why should I give to Friends of Scouting?
Friends of Scouting provides roughly one-quarter of the money needed to operate the Atlanta Area Council's Scouting camps, programs and facilities for a calendar year. These camping and training facilities are the "outdoor classrooms" in which Scouts have fun, learn leadership skills and develop into better young men and women. The Atlanta Area Council spends approximately $200 per Scout each year to deliver these benefits and much more.
I already paid my child's registration and his unit collects annual dues. Haven't I already supported Scouting?
Your child's registration fee goes directly to the National Office of the Boy Scouts of America. If your child's Scout unit collects dues, that money stays with the unit to help pay for trips and other activities. None of that money helps the Atlanta Area Council pay for:
We need your support
Please consider a gift to the Friends of Scouting campaign. Contact Finance Chairman, Marjorie Musgrave - 770-479-6048. |
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