National Park Service

Service to America

Dear Scouts and Scout Leaders

As of October 2003, this site is no longer offering opportunities to participate in the NPS Service to America Program. The program, involving Scouts in volunteer projects in our national parks, is taking a new direction. With the launch of the Department of the Interior’s Take Pride in America program, Scout projects in national parks are considered Take Pride in America events and will be so recognized. There are many ways for Scout groups to take pride in their natural and cultural resources. For more information on the new direction of this program, contact Joy Pietschmann.

Opportunities for volunteering at national parks can be found at www.volunteer.gov/gov or by contacting the park directly. In the future, there will be a place on the Take Pride in America Web site www.takepride.gov where troop leaders can post photographs and accomplishments of their Scouts in action.

Eastern National has taken great pride in being able to assist the more than 100,000 Scouts who have participated in various service and stewardship efforts for our national parks. It has been rewarding to facilitate the Service To America program, and to recognize the Scouts’ efforts with a patch they can wear with pride. Eastern National will continue fulfilling patch orders for volunteer hours completed for the Service to America program until November 26, 2003. As of December 1, patches will be available from the National Park Service until they are gone, at which point the Service to America patches will be discontinued. As of December1, patch orders may be emailed to lynette_garner@nps.gov

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the program over the last several years. If you would like more information about Eastern National’s products and programs, please visit us at www.easternnational.org.

Site Last Updated: November 20, 2003