Written: 9/23/2012
This comes as a surprise (granted, I’ve been busy lately, and haven’t been following the information as closely as I should I guess). Intel has pulled their support of the BSA, after Zach Wahls and his organization petitioned them to follow their own charitable giving guidelines.
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.
And it appears that almost half of the top 50 foundations have given money to the BSA. Looks like Scouts for Equality has a lot of work ahead of them.
I think that this is a great angle, and one that I did not think about before.
The BSA has doubled down with the support from the Mormon Church. The LDS Church controls most of the National Board, and back in the 90s, when the first decision came out, the thinking was that they would lose more chartered partners and resources by embracing equality than by following the LDS church.
Now, the tactic is to make it hurt for the BSA to not embrace equality. I think it’s a great strategy, a viscous one, and I think with enough time, it will work.
All my best,
The King of Spades
