The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people to "Be Prepared. For Life.(R)" The Scouting organization is composed of nearly 2.4 million youth members between the ages of seven and twenty-one and approximately 960,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories. For more information on the Boy Scouts of America, please visit www.scouting.org.