While Scouts should not be expected to 'parade' their services, it would be helpful if Scout Leaders, parents, and others would encourage boys in the doing of Good Turns, and recognize the difference between normal household and other chores, and actual Good Turns.   Selfishness is almost a universal evil.  Certainly it is overcome by the Scout Program, which is based upon the development of service for others, and the Daily Good Turn is an important factor in the development of a habit of service and attitude of mind which offset a tendency to selfishness.
James E. West, 1928

Good Turn For America

Track your unit's community service, and help us all promote the good deeds of Scouting in the community

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Good Turn for America Log-In Page
Good Turn for America Info


Camp Projects For Units

2009 Dates

  • Onteora SR - May 8-10 and June 12-14

  • Schiff SR - TBA

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is  a food collection effort carried out by Boy Scouts, Venturers, and Cub Scouts from our units to serve the communities in Nassau County. Scouts distribute food drive donation requests (flyers, notes, and/or bags) throughout their community and then return to collect plastic grocery bags filled with donated food. The bags are collected and carried to local food pantries, churches, shelters for the homeless, and other local agencies that feed the needy.

 

Go to Scouting for Food...March 14, 2009


The Conservation Good Turn is an opportunity for Cub Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, Varsity Scout teams, and Explorer posts to join with conservation or environmental organization (federal, state, local, or private) to carry out a conservation Good Turn in their home communities.


The National Catholic Committee on Scouting Good Turn Service Project was instituted by the National Catholic Committee on Scouting® Religious Activities standing committee to recognize Catholic-chartered units for their service to the charter organization

Flyer   NCCS Good Turn Manual


"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"
Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

  TR and Scouting                                                             Scouting and Citizenship     

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