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- EIN 14-1338581
- (845) 339-0846
- 1300 Ulster Ave Kingston NY 12401-1501 USA
- www.rvwbsa.org
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Causes: Boy Scouts of America, Children & Youth, Scouting, Youth Development
Mission: 1. The mission of the rip van winkle council is to provide an effective program for boys and young men and women to help them develop desirable qualities of character and leadership, participating citizenship, personal fitness, good family values, and respect for the environment, and to prepare them to make ethical choices over their lifetime in achieving their full potential.
Programs: Camping program - the rip van winkle council operates one outdoor facility, camp tri-mount. This camp offers week long summer programs and weekend programs year-round. Tri-mount serves as our outdoor lab to teach life skills utilizing nature, scoutcraft, aquatics, shooting sports, sports and high adventure activities. It is also the place where our scouts can learn the patrol method and practice citizenship and leadership skills.
council activities - during 2017, the rip van winkle council provided camporees for our scouts, scout mall show, a first aid meet and an ice fishing derby. One of the highlights of this past year was to send 40 of our scouts to the national boy scout jamboree in west virginia. They were able to meet and learn with 30,000 other scouts from around the united states and a few other countries. An important objective is to ensure scout activities are fun with positive outcomes. This compilation of scouting activities is made up of challenges and games which can be incorporated to help satisfy that objective.
council program and unit support - to provide the proper support to the units, the council employs two full time executives and three support personnel. They provide training, fundraising, activity, advancement and administrative support to serve 1,302 families thru the 60 units they belong to. This past year, the scouts of the rip van winkle council provided their communities with over 26,000 hours of community service.
other activities include cub leader basic training, webelos outdoor training, den chief training, pow-wow training, new leader essential training, scoutmaster fundamentals training, patrol leader training, algonquin first aid meet, council scout show and council camporee.