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BSA Giving Opportunities

Donate Online to the Grand Columbia Council

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Boat/RV/Vehicle Donations

Support Scouting by donating a boat, RV or vehicle. The process is simple and the proceeds support more than 5,000 youth in our programs.

Donation advantages:

Eliminate broker fees, advertising, and berthing.
Your donation is tax deductible.
We will arrange everything, including tax documentation.
We take all types and sizes of vehicles, RV's and boats.

Memorial Fund

Your gift to the Scout Memorial Fund is your recognition of a special occasion or person. It can be a birthday, rank advancement, anniversary, job promotion or to honor the memory of a family member or good friend. The announcement of donors who have contributed to this fund will be included on our Council Website. Our Memorial Fund recognizes the contributor and routes a dignified notification to the honoree or family. All proceeds support Scouting programs for the more than 5,000 youth served by the Grand Columbia Council.

James E. West was the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America and he served in that position for more than three decades. The West Fellowship award is available for gifts of $1,000 and up in cash or marketable securities to the Cimarron Council Endowment fund. The gift must be in addition to - and not replace or diminish - the donor's annual Friends of Scouting support. Many individuals and corporations make these gifts either on behalf of someone else- such as in honor of an Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver recipient, a retirement, a special accomplishment, or anniversary- or in memory of a special individual. If an institution is truly "the lengthened shadow of one man," it is more than fitting that the BSA honor James E. West's significant contributions to Scouting in such a significant way.

The James E. West Fellowship Award is an attractive 8-by-10-inch certificate, personalized with the donor's name, date of gift, and council name. In addition, there will be a distinctive lapel pin/charm and an embroidered square knot for uniform wear. While it is a national recognition, the James E. West Fellowship award is authorized and presented by the local council.

The 1910 Society

The Concept

In order to ensue that local council endowment funds will have sufficient assets to work in the years ahead, a special recognition program has been created to encourage gifts to these funds. It is called The 1910 Society.

Background and Significance

The 1910 Society was named in recognition of the year in which the visionary early leaders founded the Boy Scouts of America, which was patterned after the fledgling-but popular-Scouting program developed in England by Sir Baden-Powell.

Those who make a gift now, during the last years of the decade, to further endow Scouting are themselves modern-day visionaries. It is appropriate, therefore, that these visionaries be recognized as they help ensure the Scouting legacy for future generations of young Americans by undergirding the financial stability of the BSA programs in the local council into the twenty-first century.

Qualifications

To qualify, an individual donor, a company, or an organization must donate $25,000 or more to the local council endowment fund. Pledges are acceptable, but must be honored by December 31, 1999. Gifts made prior to January 1, 1995 do not qualify. Recognition will be given for gifts of cash, stocks, bonds, lead trusts, or other assets that can be easily converted to cash. Deferred gifts and gifts of life insurance with a cash surrender value of less than $25,000 do not qualify.

Recognition

Members will receive a leather-bound edition of the Boy Scout Handbook with their name embossed in gold on the cover. In addition, they will receive a distinctive lapel pin and parchment certificate. the level of giving would be distinguished by a device on the lapel pin. The names selected for the recognition levels of The 1910 Society were drawn from those early founders.

Levels of Recognition

$25,000 - Ernest Thompson Seton Member

$100,000 - Daniel Carter Beard Member

$500,000 - Theodore Roosevelt Member

$1,000,000 - Waite Phillips Member

Visionary Founders

	ERNEST THOMPSON SETON - First Chief Scout of the BSA and founder of the Woodcraft Indians. He wrote the first official American Scout Handbook-Boy Scouts of America: A Handbook of Woodcraft, Scouting, and Life-craft. Seton was a nationally recognized wildlife artist, naturalist, author, and lecturer.
	DANIEL CARTER BEARD - National Scout Commissioner and founder of the Society of the Sons of Daniel Boone. He also served as the first chairman of the National Court of Honor. Beard wrote and illustrated stories for youth in numerous magazines.
	THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Chief Scout Citizen and president of the United States of America. Colonel Roosevelt was named honorary vice president of the BSA in 1910, having already achieved a distinguished military career as commander of the famous "Rough Riders" cavalry regiment in the battle of San Juan Hill.
	WAITE PHILLIPS - One of the Boy Scouts of America's first benefactors. In 1938, Phillips donated to the BSA a large portion of his ranch in northeastern New Mexico. The ranch was originally named Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp but is now called Philmont Scout Ranch. Phillips was an entrepreneur, oilman, outdoorsman, a banker, and rancher.

The Founders Circle

The Founders Circle is intended to recognize deferred gifts designed for council endowment funds. With deferred giving (also called planned giving) so widely and effective used by so many donors, the BSA wants to recognize the importance of such major gifts. Donors are recognized for gift commitments of $100,000 or more. Unlike the other endowment recognition awards, a donor may qualify for membership with gifts made through:

Charitable bequests in a will or codicil
Charitable trust, such as unitrusts, annuity trust, and lead trusts
BSA Gift Annuities or BSA Pooled Income Fund gifts
Life insurance/retirement plan designations
Other deferred gifts approved by the local council

There are four levels of membership within the Founders Circle:

Bronze $100,000 minimum gift
Silver $250,000 minimum gift
Gold $500,000 minimum gift
Platinum $1,000,000 minimum gift

The early founders of the BSA had the vision and commitment to make Scouting the number one youth organization in the world. In that spirit, we honor the modern-day visionaries who qualify for the Founders Circle in their commitment to perpetuate the visions and beliefs of those founders.

United Way &
the Grand Columbia Council

United Way and the Grand Council have been partners for many years. United Ways of Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Kittitas, Okanogan, Yakima, and portions of Adams, Benton, Ferry, and Klickitat Counties currently funds a portion of the Grand Columbia Council’s Traditional Scouting and Learning for Life program, which benefits more than 5,000 youth. Your support of United Way is appreciated and by designating your gift directly to the Grand Columbia Council you will benefit and helping grow our youth for tomorrow.

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