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Both the Mechanicsburg and York Service Centers will be closed on Friday, April 19 in celebration of Good Friday. The Mechanicsburg and York Scout Shops will be operating on Friday, April 19 and Saturday, April 20 following their normal schedule. Thank you!

In 2018, representatives from the Council Executive Board, Council Camping and Properties Committee, Camp Strategic Planning Committee, Commissioner Cabinet, and Council Unit Relations Taskforce embarked on engaging unit leaders and parents in discussions about their Scouting experiences in the New Birth of Freedom Council.  The objective of the group was ...

Please join us, Saturday, May 4, 2019 for the first annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet and District Receptions.  This brand new event is a reimagining and redesign of the Council Recognition Dinner.

Scouting changes lives.  Your donation to the New Birth of Freedom Council, BSA helps to positively influence over 9,000  young lives annually through our value-based, character-building programs.   Make a one-time gift or consider a recurring gift that is an ongoing, automatic payment for the duration and frequency of your ...

Fishing offers a great opportunity for Scout recruitment and retention; however, it needs YOU as a Fishing Champion within your council.  The course is designed to qualify volunteers for improving the Outdoor Program in their Council through the utilization of Fishing programs. The Certified Angling Instructor (CAI) course is a program within the ...

We’re now just days away from the launch of Scouts BSA. In anticipation of the program’s February 1 debut, Scouts BSA uniform items and the Scouts BSA Handbook for Girls have begun arriving at Scout shops and will soon be in stock at scoutshop.org. You’ve been asking for details about these new items, ...

By now, many of you have probably seen or heard the recent news reports speculating that the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (“National BSA”) is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which allows reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. National BSA has shared ...