A permanently restricted lifetime gift totaling $25,000 or more, outright or in a pledge payable within five years, to the Gerald R. Ford Council Endowment delineates a 1910 Society member. Within this program are four recognized donor levels:

Ernest Thompson Seton Member

Named after this nationally known artist and naturalist, author of the first official Boy Scout Handbook and many other books important to Scouting this donor level recognizes those individuals who make lifetime gifts totaling $25,000 or more to the Gerald R. Ford Council Endowment.

Daniel Carter Beard Member

Named after the first chairman of the National Court of Honor, a national Scout commissioner and author of many well known books and stories for youth this donor level recognizes those individuals who make lifetime gifts totaling $100,000 or more to the Gerald R. Ford Council Endowment.

Theodore Roosevelt Member

Named after the first Chief Scout Citizen, first vice president of the Boy Scouts of America, and President of the United States this donor level recognizes those individuals who make lifetime gifts totaling $500,000 or more to the Gerald R. Ford Council Endowment.

Waite Phillips Member

Named after one of BSA’s first benefactors, and donor to the Boy Scouts of America of almost 130,000 acres of land in New Mexico which became Philmont Scout Ranch this donor level recognizes those individuals who make lifetime gifts totaling $1,000,000 or more to the Gerald R. Ford Council.

For information on the 1910 Society, please contact Chip Emery at the DeVos Family Center for Scouting at 1-616-785-2662.