Good Turn for America

 

A National Service Initiative to Address
Local Community Issues

FOOD.  SHELTER.  HEALTHY LIVING. 
Scouting is About Making a Difference

 

Good Turn for America gives us the opportunity to raise our levels of community service and increase awareness of the Scouting program within our neighborhoods as we focus on three areas of common concern: relief from hunger, lack of housing, and a decline in fitness and health in America.

Good Turn for America will build on current council service projects (Scouting for Food, Goodwill Day, and Guy Miller Tree Plant). We challenge each unit to commit to furthering their efforts in these important local projects.

Units are also encouraged to organize their own local service projects in the areas of food, shelter, or healthy living.   These unit-level projects will often be in service of local agencies in your community, or may be in service of your chartering organization.  There is a list of organizations who are in need of volunteer service on this website. Whatever the project, getting youth involved in direct community service is important. It will benefit the lives of them and their neighbors. Also, your youth will qualify for the Good Turn for America patch and segments available at the Nor’West Scout Shop and other Scout Stores.

Be sure to visit the new service initiative website at www.goodturnforamerica.org. You’ll be able to post information about your local unit projects, your members’ service hours for council and unit projects, and gain information about the Good Turn for America initiative.

The information you provide the national website will become valuable as the national organization announces our service hours as a nation-wide body, and reports to the nation the impressive impact Scouting can have on common issues in our society. Our local council will also access the data you post at the Good Turn for America website for use in preparing local stories for television, radio, and newsprint media. The details you provide the website will be very valuable to vital efforts to share the Scouting story with our communities.

Another valuable tool for your local unit planning is our local council website, which provides project ideas and suggestions for service in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington, and a list of collaborating organizations which will grow as the initiative continues.

You are invited to adopt a year-round plan of service in your unit. Join the Good Turn for America initiative with its impressive potential for positive impact to the nation.