Support Scouting
Volunteer
Scouting is supported by thousands of local volunteers who directly impact youth each year. Hawkeye Area Council is always in need of capable, youth-driven individuals who want to make a difference. For more information on how you can make a difference see how you can Join Scouting.
Friends of Scouting
Friends of Scouting is the annual campaign where Hawkeye Area Council asks Scouting families, businesses and civic-minded citizens to support our mission of providing the Scouting program to thousands of young people in Eastern Iowa.
Friends of Scouting provides roughly one-fifth of the money needed to operate the Hawkeye Area Council's Scouting camps, programs and facilities for a calendar year. These camping and training facilities are the "outdoor classrooms" in which Scouts have fun, learn leadership skills and develop into better young men and women.
As a thank you for Friends of Scouting gifts of $250 and over, you will receive the Rick Kelley print titled "Coming Home"
Major Gifts
James E West Fellowship
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 a 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 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.
1910 Society
Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has grown into something larger and more significant than anyone anticipated. We honor that special year by presenting the 1910 Society award to donors who make gifts of $25,000 or more to their council. These gifts can be in the form of cash, securities, land, five-year pledges, of other property suitable for a council endowment fund or easily converted to cash.
Founders Circle
The Founders Circle is intended to recognize deferred gifts designated for council operating, capital, or endowment funds or unrestricted gifts to the council operating fund. With deferred giving (also called planned giving) so widely and effectively 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.
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