I was also a Scout — and a staff trainer at a High Adventure base in the 1980s. High Adventure wilderness programs, at that time, were the ultimate expression of the Scouting movement.
I recommend that if some corporate sponsors, such as Ernst & Young and AT&T, are threatening to withdraw financial support for Scouting, then we need to contact other corporations that have demonstrated their support for Christian virtues and ask them to replace the withdrawn corporate sponsorships. Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A come to mind, but there are many more.
11/18/2009 - BSA announced its intention to purchase property near Mount Hope, WV, as the future home of The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve. The property was 10,600 acres (43 km2) in size. It would serve as the future home of the national scout jamboree, the Summit High Adventure Base, and the National Center for Scouting Excellence. The acquisition of the property and its construction was made possible through a donation from the Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. The $50 million donation was the largest in the history of the BSA. On October 22, 2010 the BSA announced that total donations had reached $100 million, including a $25 million donation from the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation. It will be 1 of 4 facilities managed by the National Council of the BSA (the others being Northern Tier (MN), Philmont (NM), and National Sea Base (FL).
5/30-6/02/2012 – BSA held its annual national business meeting in Orlando, FL. Telecom pioneer and Seattle Mariners co-owner, Wayne Perry, was elected as the BSA's 34th (volunteer) president. Perry, a life-long member of the LDS Church, began his career in telecommunications and was chairman and CEO of Edge Wireless until it was sold to AT&T in 2008. Sometime during the meeting, the “local option” resolution was delegated to a sub-committee. It was announced that AT&T had agreed to “light up” The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in WV with wireless telecommunications capability in time for the 2013 National Jamboree just like it did for the 2010 National Jamboree at Ft. A.P. Hill, VA. This gift to the Reserve is reportedly of equal value to the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation’s donation of $25 million.
David Horowitz keeps up with the status of the philanthropic foundations in the U.S. - which in many cases were established by captains of industry who are no longer here. He says that the radical left began infiltrating the foundations after ~1975. Today over half of the foundations have boards of directors who are radical leftists, and they make foundation grants to their fellow travellers.