Good Turn for America is a long term effort by the Boy Scouts of America to encourage and record good turn projects done in our communities.

Getting youth involved in direct community service is important. Good Turn for America is designed to help our communities with more Scouting service, to double our effort to instill the value of service in our youth, and to increase awareness of the Scouting program within our neighborhoods as we focus on three areas of common concern: relief from hunger, lack of housing, and a decline in fitness and health in America.

Good Turn for America builds on current unit service projects, as well as encouraging units to develop new projects to benefit their communities. Unit-level projects are usually performed for local agencies or in service of your chartering organization. The Boy Scouts of America challenges every unit to commit to furthering their efforts in providing service to their community, and education in the value of service to their youth. Service projects may be entered throughout the year as they are done, no matter how big or small. After you enter the data for each project, your unit will be eligible to receive the Good Turn for America patch and year segment which can be obtained from the Scout Shop. Every unit is assigned a unique Good Turn for America ID number with which to record information about service projects on the special web site set up for this purpose. The website is http://www.goodturnforamerica.com/. If you do not have your unit’s Good Turn for America ID number, or need assistance in entering your unit’s information contact Karen Snyder, our district chairperson for this activity, at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .