Scouting, Volume 52, Number 8, October 1964 Page: 22
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Typifying Scouting cooperation, Boy Scouts carry torch for
opening of Bucks County (Penn.) United Fund drive.
By JAMES E. KENNEDY
Assistant Director, Finance Service
SCOUTING
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UNITED WAY
This month millions of our fellow citizens will devote
a considerable portion of their waking hours to rais-
ing funds to be used in a variety of ways for the
betterment of their local communities.
I he united way of raising money for voluntary agen-
cies is unique to the United States of America. It is an
outgrowth of the community barn-raising spirit that ex-
isted in the early days of our republic. As our nation
grew and our society became more complex, it became
impossible for our citizens to help their neighbors on a
personal basis. Late in the 19th century, community
leaders organized health, welfare, and youth-serving
bodies to serve all members of a given area. These groups
depended on voluntary contributions for their existence.
I he early 1900*s saw the voluntary agencies competing
with one another for the contributor's dollar. One or more
campaigns often were underway simultaneously, and
public-spirited citizens were being asked to work on a
number of campaigns.
The years 1915 to 1940 saw the birth and extension
of the community-chest concept of conducting one cam-
paign annually for a number of needed local services.
Following World War II, the principle of federation was
further enlarged with the development of united funds.
Ihese differ basically from community chests only by
the fact that they include under their banner Red Cross
and some of the national health appeals. An idea of the
size of this movement can be had by realizing that this
fall all federated campaigns will raise more than $550
million for support of their member services. Whether
known as united fund, community chest, united appeal,
united good neighbors, or some similar name, federated
campaigns are an effort by local people to provide an
orderly method of fund raising as well as an equitable
allocation of the monies raised.
From the very beginning local councils of the Boy
Scouts of America have been participating partners in
federation. Today our local councils are affiliated with
more than 2,400 united funds and community chests.
This represents a participation greater than that of any
other organization. In 1963, allocations from these fed-
erated campaigns amounted to an average of 65.8 percent
of the total net-operating income of all the Scout councils
in the United States.
I he degree to which the Boy Scouts of America ex-
tends assistance to others is one measure of our appre-
ciation to the public. As partners in the federated
campaign, Scouts and Scouters are involved in all facets
of planning and campaigning. Local Scout units are an
invaluable resource to the campaign leaders in packaging
supplies, delivering window-display materials, partici-
pating in parades, acting as aides at campaign meetings,
and in numerous other ways. Scouters fill key campaign
positions at every level, and Scout executives lend them
active support as needed. This is fitting and proper, as
the federated campaign is in every respect Scouting's
campaign. In addition, personal interest and support is
given to other member organizations such as The Salva-
tion Army, Goodwill Industries, etc.
The Boy Scouts of America is chartered by the Con-
gress of the United States to bring a program of char-
acter development, citizenship training, and physical
fitness to all boys who wish to be Scouts. In discharging
this obligation over the past 54 years, Scouting has
developed a successful and equitable plan for financing
the program. It calls for support from the organiza-
tion that sponsors the Scout unit, the parents of the boy
as well as the boy himself, and the community as a whole.
The sponsor provides a meeting place and its maintenance
as well as the volunteer leaders who, in turn, pay their
own out-of-pocket expenses. I he boy and his parents
provide equipment, camping costs, uniforms, unit dues,
registration fee, and transportation expenses. In addition,
civic-minded parents also contribute to their united fund
or community chest. The community, through the fed-
erated campaign in chest/fund areas, provides funds for
the cost of operating the council program. This is done
on the premise that Scouting benefits the whole com-
munity. It enables the local council to make its program
available to any group of boys with a proper sponsor
without regard to their economic status, race, color, or
creed.
To our partners in the "united way," Scouting pays
tribute for a job well done in the past and pledges its
full support in the future.
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