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# Rough Times for a Good Organization
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1841/
- Published: 2005-07-27T11:15:23.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-27T11:15:23.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

The Boy Scouts is getting innovative in an attempt to bolster membership. They even have co-ed groups. [Link](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-sscoutsjul26,0,6997960.story?coll=sfla-news-front&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> Worried by a national membership drop of about 6 percent from 2000 to 2004, to roughly 3.1 million, the group has also targeted Hispanics with new initiatives, updated its camping programs and modernized its merit badges.

> But officials acknowledge they face an uphill battle because younger boys often prefer video games to outdoor activities, there is peer pressure against the group's image as a "goody-goody" organization for boys only, and some adolescents resent having to wear uniforms.

> "The challenge is competing with video games and a society that is a lot more dormant, a lot more individualistic," said Renzo Martorella, of the Gulf Stream Boy Scout Council in Palm Beach Gardens.

> "Peer pressure becomes an issue where it's bad to be good, and Scouting is a good gang."