To make your donation by credit card, click here. Otherwise please mail your donation to Rebecca Fields, Scout Executive, Los Padres Council, 4000 Modoc Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Thank you for your support of Scouting.

Growing up has never been easy. Each generation faces its own concerns and pressures. For the past 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America has provided young people with experiences that prepare them to meet challenges and conquer them.

Character, self-reliance, responsibility and leadership – Scouting provides activities that are in sync with the interests of today’s youth, but instill these timeless values. Annually, for more than 9,000 young people throughout the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties participants with diverse backgrounds, Scouting is the guiding light that leads to a responsible and rewarding adulthood.

Friends of Scouting is the annual fundraising campaign to raise the operating funds necessary to provide a quality Scouting program in the Los Padres Council. This campaign is divided into two separate efforts: The Family Friends of Scouting, which solicits contributions from the Scouting families and the Community Friends of Scouting, which seeks contributions from business and community leaders as well as Council Board members.

The essence of the Family Friends of Scouting campaign is raising money to help the Los Padres Council defray the actual cost of delivering and running the Scouting program. Give Scouts and volunteer Scouters your support by helping the Scouting program with your pledge.

Why should you support Scouting? Because your gift to the 2009 Friends of Scouting campaign really does invest in the future. Help us change the world by guiding the youth of this generation as they grow to become the leaders of the next.

Learn more about how Friends of Scouting makes a difference for:

• Cub Scouts (grades 1 through 5)
• Boy Scouts/Venturing (11 to 20 years old)
• Scouting in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

For more information, please contact Rebecca Fields at rfields@bsamail.org