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List of local councils. Local councils of the Girl Scouts of the USA, within U.S. states, and in Insular areas and Territories of the United States, currently includes: Alaska. Arizona Cactus-Pine. Black Diamond. California's Central Coast. Caribe. Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont. Central & Southern New Jersey.
The American Heritage Girls (AHG) is a Christian -based Scouting-like organization for Americans. [2] The organization has more than 52,000 members (2020) with troops or individuals ("trailblazers") in all 50 states of the United States and for American expatriates in fifteen other countries. [3][1][4]
Cuba - Asociación de Guías de Cuba, last mentioned in 1969. Ethiopia - last mentioned in 1984, now part of Ethiopia Scout Association. Indonesia - Gerakan Pramuka left WAGGGS and joined WOSM in 2002. Iran - Fereshtegan-e Pishahang-e Īrān, last mentioned in 1979. Samoa - Samoa Girl Guides Association, membership cancelled in 2008.
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
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.
The Boy Scouts Association (now The Scout Association) was formed in 1910 and does not acknowledge any single troop as being the first but maintains a list of all the Scout Troops who claim to have started in 1908. [3] The Scout Troops with strong claims are listed below:
The Muskingum Valley Scout Reservation [15] (MVSR) is the council's year-round camping facility. Located on over 500 acres (2.0 km 2 ) of reclaimed land near Conesville in Coshocton county, MVSR has offered Scouts a wide variety of options to expand their camping experience since its opening in 1968.
Scouting portal. The Greater Yosemite Council (#059) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America based in Modesto, California. It was founded in 1920 as the Modesto Council. In 1921 Modesto changed its name to the Stanislaus County Council, and in 1922 to the Yosemite Area Council.