Setting Up Your Unit with a Google Business Profile Every little thing you do can have a huge impact on your success in this and coming years. If you have a little extra time (insert “one hour a week” jokes here), consider using it to create a Google Business Profile for your unit. What’s a Google [...]

Boy Scouts of Richmond Headquarters, 14 N. 8th Street, Richmond, Virginia, c 1910/1930. Sir Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scout movement in England in 1908. On January 24, 1908, the Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. The name Baden-Powell was already well known [...]

Women’s History Month Feature Frances Broaddus-Crutchfield March is Women’s History Month, a celebration of the vital role women play in American History.  We all feel the contributions women make to our Scouting program.  As generous donors, trained leaders, volunteers, and mothers, they have helped to shape the Boy Scouts of America and further enrich [...]

Photo Source: news.virginia.edu Black History Month Feature: George Keith Martin George Keith Martin earned his Eagle Scout rank in 1968 at the age of 14 with Troop 478, sponsored by Ebenezer Baptist Church in  Jackson Ward.  He Scouted under the leadership of Mr. Linwood D. Ross.  What has followed is an incredible and impressive career and [...]