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The American Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have been collaborators in serving the community, and each other, since the earliest days of both organizations. The BSA recommends Red Cross first aid, aquatic safety, and other training for leaders and scouts under various circumstances, including when leading youth on outings and for certain merit badges and other awards. To ensure convenient and cost effective access to Red Cross training, BSA councils and districts need their own instructors and instructor trainers within an authorized provider relationship. To facilitate this for the entire Scouting organization, such a relationship was formalized at a national level.
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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is the largest youth organization in the United States, it was founded in 1910 as part of the Scout Movement. It is believed that over one hundred million Americans have been members. As of December 2005 it had a registered membership of 2,938,698 youths with 1,146,130 adult leaders organised into 122,582 units.[1] Individual units of the BSA rely largely on volunteers although at higher commercial levels of administration professionals are employed.
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For more than 25 years, Boy Scouts have held the National Scout Jamboree every four years at Fort A.P. Hill near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Scouts from all over the country camp together for ten days and participate in activities emphasizing physical fitness, appreciation of the outdoors, and patriotism. Seven Presidents have attended the Jamboree since President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. The Jamboree grounds at Fort A.P. Hill are open to the public, and an estimated 300,000 visitors attended in 2005 along with 43,000 Scouts and their leaders.
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The Chicago Area Council, Boy Scouts of America serves over 60,000 young people, boys and girls ages 6-20, in the city of Chicago and twenty-six suburbs. The programs of the Chicago Area Council include Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturers, Explorers, Sea Scouts and Learning For Life. Over 4,000 adult volunteers work with the youth through four hundred neighborhood organizations that sponsor Scouting. The mission of the Chicago Area Council, Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. For more information, visit www.chicagobsa.org.
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From the start, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was surrounded by men of influence and means. President William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt were named honorary president and vice-president. The group's president was Colin Livingstone, president of the American National Bank of Washington. Scottish émigré Ernest Thompson Seton, who had founded the Woodcraft Indians and would write the BSA handbook, was chosen first Chief Scout in 1910. Another buckskin-wearing naturalist, Daniel Carter Beard, was first national scout commissioner. He designed the original uniform and merged his own boys' group, the Sons of Daniel Boone, with BSA.
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According to the Boy Scouts of America Web site, in 1909, Chicago publisher William D. Boyce got lost in a dense London fog. A boy came to his aid and, after guiding the man, refused a tip, explaining that as a Scout he would not take a tip for doing a good deed.
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