The summary provides an overview of the Los Angeles Area Council Merit Badge Sponsorship Program. The program offers sponsorship opportunities to support at-risk youth in Los Angeles. Sponsorship funds will allow youth to participate in scouting activities that teach life skills and keep them engaged in positive activities instead of drugs, alcohol and crime. Sponsor benefits include recognition and marketing opportunities to over 40,000 scouting participants and families.

1. Los Angeles Area Council
Merit Badge Sponsorship Program
2010
Thank you for your interest in the Merit Badge Sponsorship Program. Your financial leadership will
positively affect thousands of Los Angeles youth and families this year.
Los Angeles Youth Benefits
The Merit Badge Sponsorship Program provides opportunities for at-risk youth in low-income and culturally
diverse areas to grow physically, mentally, and morally in an after-school and weekend activities. By attending
Scouting’s structured, safe activities, Los Angeles young people do not have as much idle time to explore drugs,
alcohol, or find themselves in as many peer-pressure activities. The Scouting program is a year-round effort
because the pressures on our young people increase every day. There is no better time than now to help guide
youth in positive directions.
Scouting addresses Los Angeles at-risk youth in the following ways:
1. Offering a place for youth to attend after school and on weekends at which he or she will learn how to be
physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight
2. Teaching the youth how to avoid drug and alcohol abuse through the “Drugs: A Deadly Game” program
3. Instructing youth how to recognize, resist, and report child abuse through the “It Happened to Me” and “A
Time to Tell” program
4. Creating weekly opportunities at youth group meetings to assist the youth and young adults in learning a
code of ethics: being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave,
clean, and reverent
Additionally, Scouting helps Los Angeles at-risk youth to focus on six critical elements of healthy youth
development:
1. Strong personal values and character
2. Positive sense of self-worth and usefulness
3. Caring and nurturing relationships with parents, other adults, and peers
4. A desire to learn
5. Productive / Creative use of time
6. Social adeptness
THANK YOU! With your funding, the Los Angeles Area Council will ensure that the youth involved will
register with the Boy Scouts of America, have the opportunities to attend summer camp, own their own books
and uniforms, and enjoy the same activities as youth involved in mature, self-funded units. Your funding will
also help us to create more Scout units, and to develop the units into self-sustaining, successful programs.

2. Los Angeles Area Council
Merit Badge Sponsorship Program
Your Benefits
The Merit Badge Sponsorship Program offers the following marketing benefits for you or your company to
over 40,000 event participants, as well as 25,859 youth and 12,533 registered adult volunteers:
Partner Sponsorship:
Exclusive sponsor of One Merit Badge for one calendar year
Name included in the Los Angeles Area Council Annual Report (March 2011)
Banner and plaque recognition at the annual Business Leaders Breakfast (March 2011)
Logo and name recognition on the Council Website
Logo and name included in the quarterly Newsletter
Logo and name included in the Council’s Scouter’s News (fall 2010)
The opportunity to host a merit badge clinic at your location to help youth and to market your business
Guardian Sponsorship:
Includes all of the above benefits
One event sponsorship package
One week Camp Session Sponsorship at a Los Angeles Area Council Resident Camp with a banner and
a guided tour (summer 2010)

3. Los Angeles Area Council
Merit Badge Sponsorship Program
Commitment Form
Please sign me up for the following:
Partner Sponsorship $5,000
Guardian Sponsorship $10,000
Please bill me Check enclosed or attached
Contact Name
Company
Address
City State Zip
Telephone Fax
Email
Please mail this form to:
Mr. Flynn Turner
Development Director
Los Angeles Area Council
2333 Scout Way
Los Angeles, California 90026
If you prefer to email or fax, please send to: flynn.turner@boyscoutsla.org or 213-413-6472 fax

4. Merit Badge Index
1. Agribusiness
Animal Science, Farm Mechanics
2. Arts And Crafts
Art, Basketry, Bugling, Leatherwork, Metalwork, Music, Pottery, Sculpture, Theater, Wood Carving
3. Business and Industry
American Business, Entrepreneurship, Pulp and Paper, Salesmanship, Textile
4. Conservation
Environmental Science, Fish and Wildlife Management, Forestry, Soil and Water Conservation
5. Hobbies
Backpacking, Camping, Coin Collecting, Collections, Cooking, Dog Care, Gardening, Hiking, Home
Repairs, Indian Lore, Model Design And Building, Pets, Pioneering, Radio, Rowing, Stamp Collecting
6. Natural Science
Archaeology, Astronomy, Bird Study, Geology, Insect Study, Mammal Study, Nature, Oceanography,
Reptile and Amphibian Study, Weather
7. Communications
Cinematography, Journalism, Photography
8. Personal Development
American Cultures, American Heritage, Citizenship In The Community, Citizenship In The Nation,
Citizenship In The World, Communications, Disabilities Awareness, Family Life, Genealogy, Personal
Fitness, Personal Management, Public Speaking, Reading, Scholarship, Traffic Safety, Wilderness
Survival
9. Physical Science
Chemistry, Computers, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, Nuclear Science (Formerly Atomic Energy),
Space Exploration
10. Professions
Architecture, Dentistry, Engineering, Graphic Arts, Landscape Architecture, Law, Medicine,
Surveying, Veterinary Medicine
11. Public Service
Crime Prevention, Emergency Preparedness, Fingerprinting, Fire Safety, First Aid, Lifesaving, Public
Health, Safety
12. Sports
Archery, Athletics, Canoeing, Climbing, Cycling, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Golf, Horsemanship,
Motorboating, Orienteering, Rifle Shooting, Scuba Diving, Shotgun Shooting, Skating, Small-Boat
Sailing, Snow Sports, Sports, Swimming, Water Sports, Whitewater
13. Trades
American Labor, Auto Mechanics, Composite Materials, Drafting, Painting, Plumbing, Woodwork
14. Transportation

5. Aviation, Railroading, Truck Transportation