2000

The Boy Scouts of America celebrated its 90th anniversary and reached a larger portion of America's youth than ever before, welcoming its 100 millionth youth member. Scoutreach's Hispanic marketing emphasis resulted in 148 volunteers being honored with the Whitney M. Young Jr. Service award, the largest number of recipients in the award's history. Awards for lifesaving and meritorious actions were given to 234 Scouts and Scouters. Scouts completed more than 214 million total hours of service for "America's Promise-The Alliance for Youth," surpassing the four-year goal of 200 million service hours by the end of 2000. Traditional membership, December 31, was 4,561,046. Total members to date,104,003,921.