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Thank you for your
interest in the Merit Badge Sponsorship Program.
Your financial leadership will positively effect
thousands of Los Angeles youth and families this
year.
Los Angeles Youth Benefits
The Merit
Badge Sponsorship Program provides opportunities
for at-risk youth in low-income and culturally
diverse areas to grow physically, mentally, and
morally in an after-school and weekend
activities. By attending Scouting’s structured,
safe activities, Los Angeles’s young people do
not have as much idle time to explore drugs,
alcohol, or find themselves in as many
peer-pressure activities. The Scouting program
is a year-round effort because the pressures on
our young people increase every day. There is
no better time than now to help guide youth in
positive directions.
Scouting addresses Los Angeles’s at-risk youth
in the following ways:
Offering a place for youth to
attend after school and on weekends at which
he or she will learn how to be physically
strong, mentally awake, and morally straight
Teaching the youth how to
avoid drug and alcohol abuse through the
“Drugs: A Deadly Game” program
Instructing youth how to
recognize, resist, and report child abuse
through the “It Happened to Me” and “A Time to
Tell” program
Creating weekly opportunities
at youth group meetings to assist the youth and
young adults in learning a code of ethics: being
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty,
brave, clean, and reverent
Additionally,
Scouting helps Los Angeles’s at-risk youth to
focus on six critical elements of healthy youth
development:
Strong personal values and
character
Positive sense of self-worth and
usefulness
Caring and nurturing
relationships with parents, other adults, and
peers
A desire to learn
Productive / Creative use of time
Social adeptness
THANK YOU!
With your funding, the Los Angeles Area Council
will ensure that the youth involved will
register with the Boy Scouts of America, have
the opportunities to attend summer camp, own
their own books and uniforms, and enjoy the same
activities as youth involved in mature,
self-funded units. Your funding will also help
us to create more Scout units, and to develop
the units into self-sustaining, successful
programs.
Your Benefits
The Merit
Badge Sponsorship Program offers the following
marketing benefits for you or your company to
over 40,000 event participants, as well as
58,948 youth and 20,508 registered adult
volunteers:
Leader
Sponsorship:
Exclusive sponsor of One Merit Badge for one
calendar year
Name
included in the Los Angeles Area Council Annual
Report
Banner and plaque recognition at the annual
Friends of Scouting Breakfast
Logo
and name recognition on the Council Website
Logo
and name included in the annual Camp Almanac
Banner recognition at the annual Jamb-O-Rama
expo event
Logo
and name included in the Los Angeles Republic:
April 2010, 422,717 readers
The
opportunity to host a merit badge clinic at your
location to help youth and to market your
business
Partner Sponsorship:
Includes all of the above benefits
One
week Camp Session Sponsorship at a Los Angeles
Area Council Resident Camp with a banner
One
Scout Expo Booth
One
special event sponsorship package
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