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37th World Scout Conference Hammamet Tunisia: 122 Hong Kong: 2008: 38th World Scout Conference Jeju-do South Korea: 150 2011: 39th World Scout Conference Curitiba Brazil: 138 Australia, Hong Kong, Switzerland: 2014: 40th World Scout Conference Ljubljana Slovenia: 143 Italy: 2017: 41st World Scout Conference Baku Azerbaijan: 169 [24] Malaysia: 2021
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.
The Order of World Scouts (OWS), founded in 1911, is the oldest international Scout organisation. It is headquartered in England and has an administration headquarters in Italy. It is headquartered in England and has an administration headquarters in Italy.
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana serves more than 55,000 girls and 21,000 adult volunteers. [11] It is the largest Girl Scout council by membership in the United States. It includes Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kankakee, Lake and Will counties in Illinois and Jasper, Lake, Newton, and Porter counties in Indiana.
Ingersoll Scout Reservation (ISR, or simply Ingersoll) is the primary resident camp of the W.D. Boyce Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Initially founded as Wilderness Camp in 1963, the camp was renamed in 1973 to posthumously honor William P. Ingersoll, a local philanthropist who helped in the camp's initial purchase.
The needs of Scout youth in the Region in unusual situations has created some interesting permutations, answerable directly to the World Scout Bureau. For years there was an active Boy Scouts of the United Nations with several troops at Parkway Village in New York City , with but 14 members in 1959.
The WSF is permanently investing capital donations from individuals, foundations, corporations, governments, and members of the Scout Movement. Nearly all of the earned profit from investments is donated to the WOSM. The Foundation also seek non-capital donations to support specific World Scouting projects, such as the Gifts of Peace project. [1]
In 1957 the United Nations Scout Association, which was founded in 1948 had 48 members. [2] It became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1950. [2] [3] One troop of the Boy Scouts of the United Nations took part in the 7th World Scout Jamboree in Bad Ischl. [4] [5] [6]