Good Turn for America helps you tell the story about how Scouting makes a positive difference in your community through helping to alleviate hunger, improve shelter, encourage healthy living habits, and provide disaster relief. By working with your volunteers, local community organizations, and other councils, you can make these projects successful. Good Turn for America itself has helped involve volunteers and form relationships with community organizations, councils reported in the 2005 Council Charter Review Self-Evaluation Survey.
Half of the 227 councils (49.8 percent) with Good Turn for America relationships include local food banks as one of their local community organizations. A third of the councils have a relationship with The Salvation Army (38.9 percent) and the American Red Cross (31.3 percent). Others are collaborating with Habitat for Humanity (18.9 percent); local religious organizations (15.4 percent); local businesses and unions (10 percent); municipalities, chambers of commerce, and law enforcement agencies (7.9 percent); and civic organizations (7.1 percent).
In addition to the alliances with local community organizations, more than a fourth of the councils (27.1 percent) have collaborated with other councils on Good Turn for America projects.
Almost two-thirds of the councils (60.4 percent) reported having recruited a council Good Turn for America chairman as part of their council's activities and civic service committee. Councils in the Central Region (66.7 percent) are more likely than councils in the Western Region (48.3 percent) to have a Good Turn for America chairman.
Base: 303 councils
About three-fourths of the councils (74.9 percent) established relationships with local community organizations.
Base: 303 councils
The Merits of Marketing (marketing.scouting.org) is a resource for local
councils, developed by the Marketing &
Communications Division of the National Council, Boy Scouts of
America.