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The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM / ˈ w ʊ z əm /) is the largest international scout organization and was established in 1922. [1] [2] It has 176 members. [3]These members are national scout organizations that founded WOSM or have subsequently been recognised by WOSM, which collectively have around 43 million participants.
It is usually held every four years, with some adjustment for special years such as the 2010 National Scout Jamboree that celebrated the BSA centennial. The first jamboree was held in 1937 at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. [89] There were 27,232 Scouts and Leaders present at the first National Jamboree. [90]
All Boy Scouts of America units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of the 103,158 units (Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs and Venturing crews) and 3,615,306 youth members in 2010: 65% of all youth members are chartered to faith-based organizations; 23.5% of all youth members are chartered to civic organizations
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
The Ideal Scout, a 1937 statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center in the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia. Scouting in the United States is dominated by the 1.2 million-member Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA and other associations that are recognized by one of the international Scouting organizations.
Most councils are administratively divided into districts that directly serve Scout units. Councils previously fall into one of four regions: Western, Central, Southern, and Northeast. [1] Each region is then subdivided into areas. The total number of councils depends on how they are counted: There are 253 individual local councils
Girl Scouts of Japan: full 34,927 1952 1919 girls-only Jordan: Jordanian Association for Boy Scouts and Girl Guides: full 9,080 1963 1938 girls-only Kenya: Kenya Girl Guides Association: full 159,399 1963 1920 girls-only Kiribati: The Girl Guides Association of Kiribati: associate 2,833 1990 1926 girls-only South Korea: Girl Scouts Korea: full ...
[citation needed] The Boy Scouts of the United Nations began in 1945 and for years there was an active Boy Scouts of the United Nations with several troops at Parkway Village in New York City but only 14 members in 1959. [citation needed] Both the International Boy Scouts of the Canal Zone and the Boy Scouts of United Nations have long since ...