Format: Annual Report

Boy Scouts of America annual report
In 1939—deep in the Great Depression—the Boy Scouts of America opened what would become Philmont Scout Ranch. Fewer than 200 Scouts visited Philmont that first summer, but optimistic ranch employees launched a building program that fall, knowing better...
American Cancer Society annual report
When the American Cancer Society was founded in 1913, a cancer diagnosis meant almost certain death—preceded only by a protracted period of pain and suffering. In those days, the Society could offer comfort and perhaps the loan of a hospital bed, but it...
Boy Scouts of America sustainability report
When I was a Boy Scout in the 1960s, we didn’t learn about recycling or climate change or sustainability. But we did learn to leave each campsite better than we found it, to leave nothing but footprints, and to take nothing but pictures. A half-century...