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The National Capital Area Council (NCAC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America within the Northeast Region that serves the Washington metropolitan area, including Washington, D.C., portions of Maryland and Virginia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [1] The council offers extensive training, and administrative support to units. [7]
As of the 2017 membership year, membership for the Council is over 87,000, including 60,000 girls and 27,000 adult volunteers. [citation needed] Programs and activities. In 2017, 188 girls, earned the Gold Award, the highest level of achievement for a Girl Scout. In 2010, Girl Scouts sold over 4.7 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies.
List of local councils. Local councils of the Girl Scouts of the USA, within U.S. states, and in Insular areas and Territories of the United States, currently includes: Alaska. Arizona Cactus-Pine. Black Diamond. California's Central Coast. Caribe. Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont. Central & Southern New Jersey.
The Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital in Washington, DC hosted a 100th Anniversary Sing-Along on the National Mall, on June 9, 2012, called Girl Scouts Rock the Mall: 100th Anniversary Sing-Along. [134] The Rock the Mall event drew more than 200,000 people to the national mall to celebrate Girl Scouting and cost $2 million. [135]
Juliette Gordon Low ( née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911. In 1912, she returned to the United States, and ...
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The council has a 2.5 to 1 ratio of youth members to adult leaders, which is among the highest of all the councils. The youth retention rate approaches 80%. Girl Scouting. From 1913 until 1916 Washington was the national headquarters of the Girl Scouts and it was here that the first National Council meeting was held in 1915.
Property was donated to the local Boy Scout and Girl Scout councils with the Girl Scouts later ceding their half to the Ozark Trails Council, BSA. Frank Childress Scout Reservation: Ozark Trails Council: Diamond, MO: Sold: The property was sold to a non-profit founded by area scouts. H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation: Heart of America Area Council