Friends of Scouting
Introducing the 2025 Fund the Adventure patch featuring a “Klondike Derby” an event where participants pull a cargo sled (like those seen pulled by mushing dogs) full of camping gear to 10 different stations (sometimes ¼ mile away) where they are tested on skills mostly used in the outdoors for the lowest total event time and completion of all stations. Kids have lots of fun pulling sleds and competing to build a fire quickest or cook the best pancake on a campfire and much much more!
Moving along the Scout Law series brings us to the sixth coin in the series “Kind” in 2025.
A $250 donation will get this limited-edition coin. Featuring our very own Scouts in action is T65 featured from an actual picture of them competing in the Midnight Sun Council 2025 Klondike Derby! Talk about a great collectable!
Do not wait to send in this year’s donation to secure your coin and fill your plaque (Plaques are also available if you have filled your previous plaque or if this is your first year donating)
For more information contact CJ Stewart via email at clinton.stewart@scouting.org or call the Council office at (907) 452-1976.
Click here or scan the QR code below to donate directly online.
You can also just send a filled out FOS Pledge card (see link below) to the Council office
Click here for a FOS Pledge Card
2025 Fund the Adventure Race to
Nome!
Midnight Sun Council Board Campaign
The Midnight Sun Council Volunteer Board started its annual fundraising campaign to raise funds to support our Scouts’ programs.
This year’s theme honors the famous 1925 serum run from Nenana to Nome and YOU can be part of it.
The Board is set up in four sled teams each named after a famous sled dog.
Balto – The dog who was credited for leading the final leg into Nome
Togo – The dog who ran the most dangerous leg of the run
Fox – According to Leonhard Seppala, was the real leader of the team
Granite – Not part of the serum run, but was Susan Butcher’s greatest lead dog
Pick a team to support by following https://form.jotform.com/250635980581059
or by scanning the QR code below
Donations of $100 or more will be sent the attached patch of an Alaskan Malamute, but any amount is welcome.
Make sure you enter your contact information on the form. So we can get you your patch!
“My Friends, No great endeavor is accomplished alone.”
The time is fast approaching us now for our annual Friends of Scouting presentations to each unit. We conduct this unit level campaign through presentations made preferably at a Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet, Boy Scout Court of Honor, and Venture parent’s night. Presentations are typically 5 to 7 minutes with time to collect pledge cards.
“Friends of Scouting” is a campaign to provide financial support to your local council. In our case, that is Midnight Sun Council. This support is in the form of a pledge or donation from a company, organization or individual to ensure the financial viability of a council. Each council, including Midnight Sun Council, must raise all of its own funds to support its operating budget. Councils receive excellent program support from our National office but no financial support is provided. Scouting continues to grow and thrive within our council for many reasons, not the least of which is funding. The Midnight Sun Council serves not only the Fairbanks North Star Borough but approximately 279,000 square miles (49%) of the State of Alaska. Each year the Friends of Scouting campaign is conducted annually among the parents of Scouts and volunteer leaders. Families are the ones who see firsthand the benefit of Scouting for their child. District and unit volunteers conduct the campaign in order to give all Scout families the opportunity to support the Scouting program. During the months of January through April, each Pack, Troop, Crew and Post should schedule a “Family” Friends of Scouting presentation. This presentation explains to parents how our Council is financed and educates them about our facilities, camps, resources and funding needs.
