Every donation helps to grow inclusive scouting

Outdoor Service Guides is a 100% volunteer-run organization so you know your entire contribution goes to scouts, groups, or organizing and running national programs.

OSG has one of the most affordable national registration fees of any scouting organization. But we never turn anyone away if they can’t pay. Your $25 donation provides a registration scholarship for one scout for a year. A $200 donation covers registration fees for a whole den, six, or patrol. Donate now! >>

Groups chartered through Outdoor Serivce Guides have some or the most affordable dues compared to other youth programs. Camping trips, craft projects, and s’more supplies cost money. OSG groups never turn anyone away due to financial need. Your $100 donation provides an annual “no questions asked” scholarship to a scout in need. Donate now! >>

OSG has one the most comprehensive scout adult leader training programs. Brownsea Training Camp (BTC) is a three day, two night weekend camping trip where adult leaders learn best practices for running every age level scouting program, youth protection guidelines, camping and cooking skills, and join in fellowship with other Rovers across the country.

Rovers who have finished BTC can attend an Advanced Leader Training the goes further in depth in the skills above, featuring the best ways to teach specific skills and requirements in the scouting program. Participants also begin a project helping their region or the national organization.

Your donation of $300 provides the funding needed to run a single BTC (which happen at a minimum once every two years in each of our seven regions, and as often as twice a year in more active regions) and provide essential leadership training to six or more adult leaders. 

And a donation of $50 provides a scholarship for a new leader to attend a BTC. Donate now! >>

As we grow nationally, one of the best ways folks find groups to join or start in their area is our online presence. Even when contacted through social media, most correspondence eventually points prospective members and new group scoutmasters to our website. All of our text material is provided online for free. Hard copies as well as badges, uniforms, and equipment are all sold through our online quartermaster store. Group registration is hosted online. A $400 donation keeps the lights on at the website, quartermaster store, and registration dashboard. Donate now! >>

Since OSG is an affordable program, no amount is too small. Even if you can’t fully support one of the funding levels mentioned above, even small donations can add up. Whatever amount you can donate today helps provide scouting to youth who may not be able to otherwise, comprehensive training for adult leaders, and promoting our program to new members. Donate now! >>

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Outdoor Service Guides Mission Statement

To support scouting and guiding in an environment of mutual respect and cooperation by:

• Creating a positive learning environment, within the context of democratic participation and social justice, to share the practices, values, and traditions of the Scout Law.
• Celebrating diversity in all its forms.
• Promoting Scouting for Everyone: locally, nationally and globally.

What Do these Mean?

Creating a positive learning environment, within the context of democratic participation and social justice, to share the practices, values, and traditions of the Scout Law.

This is a mouth full. But basically, we mean that we want to have an environment where everyone has a voice and gets to participate in scouting where they are encouraged and their differences embraced. We believe that everyone should have human rights. All human rights. And part of scouting is working towards that goal of making sure everyone has human rights and no one is held back, harmed, bullied or denied their rights because of who they are. 

The second part of this statement says that we want to share the practices, values and traditions of the Scout Law. What is the Scout Law? It is a 10 point list of things we do while scouting. It guides us in how to make good choices. If you have questions about the Scout Law and what it means, this is a great discussion to have with our leaders. 

The Scout Law

1. A scout’s honor is to be trusted. 
2. A scout is loyal.
3. A scout’s duty is to be useful and help others. 
4. A scout is a friend to all and a sibling to every other scout, no matter to what class, country, or creed the other may belong. A scout is courteous.
5. A scout is kind to animals. 
6. A scout obeys orders. 
7. A scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties. 
8. A scout is thrifty. 
9. A scout is clean in thought, word and deed. 

Celebrating diversity in all its forms.

In Outdoor Service Guides we embrace having scouts who are all races and religions, all genders, LGBTQ+,  neurodiverse and differently abled. We not only want them to scout with us, but we believe that our differences make us better. We believe that diversity in the human experience is beautiful. Our scout membership is diverse and beautiful too. 

Promoting Scouting for Everyone: locally, nationally and globally.

We are working to create local groups and support Lone Scouts where they live. Our volunteers create multiple-group events that invite scouts from across the country to attend a moot or hullaballoo that promote scouting nationally, together. We are members of WFIS, the World Federation of Independent Scouting. Our scouts have attended Jamborees with groups from around the world that are members of WFIS. We look forward to scouting together with all our siblings in scouting.

Who Created This?

As part of our renaming and rebranding process Outdoor Service Guides Headquarters staff, Regional Commissioners and various committee members met during the spring of 2021.

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