Year: 2023

A Closer Look At Our Council’s Financial Health

At the Council’s Program Launch event on June 1, Council President Jan Wagner and Immediate Past Council President Matt Haar presented our Council’s current financial challenges, including a detailed look at the financial side of our Council’s camping operations.  Given

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“We Are the Caretakers of the Scouting Movement”

Greetings, Fellow Scouters,

I hope you and your family are doing well and enjoying the summer weather.

Today, I’d like to provide information and stimulate discussion about our most important threat to Scouting. This is a particularly worrisome dilemma for …

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James E. West Fellowship Award

The James E. West Fellowship Award is a national recognition for contributions of $1,000 or more to the New Birth of Freedom Council, Boy Scouts of America’s Endowment Fund in excess of a donor’s Friends of Scouting support.  The interest …

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Additional Public Funding Committed to Conserve Buffer Acreage at Camp Tuckahoe

Throughout 2022, we’ve shared information with our Scouting family about our efforts in concert with the Central Pennsylvania Conservancy to preserve “buffer acreage” at Camp Tuckahoe – parts of the property that we don’t actively use for camping and programming …

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