Article on BSA/AHG Partnership in Nov/Dec Issue of Scouting Magazine

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AHG is gicing my the impression that they can not survive without significant BSA support and may even be angling for absorption as a long term strategy.

 

Girl Scouts stood its own two feet from the beginning. Yes, they had influential backers who were able to pour money into the program, but they didn't have to reach out to BSA in order to provide training, programming, and facilities. (Whoever says they just copied it: well, why redesign the wheel when you could just redecorate it?)

 

WHO is pushing this organization onto BSA from within?

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Nike, I assume you are aware that the BSA partners with many organizations for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with the "survival" of one or the other? We partner with the UN's Nothing But Nets, Homeland Security, Red Cross, Bug Bam and until recently, Major League Soccer. BSA partnerships are nothing new.

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Yes, they get access to BSA members, and those programs generally provide another dimension to the program.

 

When's the last time any of them needed BSA to provide them with training and facilities or an entire week of Philmont programming?

 

Seriously, what does AHG bring to the table other than an evangelical ministry to girls that might soften up new charter organizations for the BSA pitch?

 

If BSA wants a girls program, they should just do it themselves.

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A commissioner friend of mine in another council reports that AHG groups are starting to be published as welcome at camping events for cub scouts.