Order Launches Get Kids to Camp Partnership

Getting Scouts involved in the outdoors is a focus of Scouting and a part of the purpose of the Order of the Arrow. In May, the national Order of the Arrow committee approved the Get Kids to Camp partnership. This partnership with council scout executives, local Order of the Arrow lodges and the national committee will assist in identifying chartered units who need leadership for units attending council summer camp. Local lodges will assist in recruiting qualified leaders to provide leadership to Scout units, provisional units and to provide additional opportunities for Scouts to attend summer camp.

The Order’s Get Kids to Camp Partnership has two parts focusing on matching grants and encouraging units to invite Scouts to attend summer camp from other units who are not attending. The national committee will provide matching grant funds for BSA councils who need additional funds to help cover the summer camp fees for adult leaders attending summer camp. The second part focuses on encouraging unit leaders to invite Scouts from area units who are not attending summer camp with their unit to participate with theirs.

Program materials, application forms, and additional information will be posted to www.oa-bsa.org by August 15, 2011. Communications will be sent to the Lodge and Section Key 3 and council scout executives this fall.

Revised 8/04/2011