Originally founded in Great Britain by Lord Baden-Powell the Boy Scout movement was incorporated in the United States in 1910 and in 1916 Congress granted a charter to the Boy Scouts of America to make the program available through community organizations.

The Boy Scouts of America program is designed - to help develop in youth desirable qualities of character, to teach and promote the skills of Scouting, to train them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop in them fitness - based on duty to God and country.