Boy Scouts lose largest donor over anti-gay policy
The Boy Scouts of America this week lost their largest corporate donor. Intel, which donated $700,000 to the Boy Scouts in 2010, announced it will no longer donate because the organization doesn’t comply with its anti-discrimination policy.
The Boy Scouts earlier this year decided to uphold a policy barring LGBT people from the organization, both as Scouts and as leaders in the organization. Zach Wahls, the Eagle Scout with two moms who has become an activist for LGBT rights, led a recent push to get Intel to stop donating to the BSA, resulting in an online petition gathering 30,000 signatures in just a day.Â
Intel explained its change in position via a statement to ThinkProgress, clarifying that the company had not given the money directly to the national organization.
“The $700,000 in funding from the Intel Foundation was donated to local Boy Scout troops or councils where our employees volunteer their time, through our volunteer matching grants program,” said Chief Diversity Officer Rosalind Hudnell in the ThinkProgress report. “Due to significant growth in the number of organizations funded, earlier this year we revisited our policies associated with the program, and applied new rigor that requires any organization to confirm that it adheres to Intel’s anti-discrimination policy in order to receive funding.”
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