Tag: Tim Mccandless
Narragansett Council Boy Scouts donates 150K pounds of food
PROVIDENCE – The Narragansett Council Boy Scouts of America collected more than 150,000 pounds of food across Rhode Island, Connecticut and southeastern Massachusetts during...
Communicate, ‘rephrase and repeat!’
Tim McCandless | Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America, CEO and scout executive
Girls have participated in our Exploring and Venturing programs for decades but...
Each year Rhode Islanders face the ever-present need for food, clothing...
On a rainy, mid-November morning, five longtime volunteers sorted donations at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank headquarters in Providence.
Aged 68 to 84 and...
Creating more options for families and girls to enjoy Scouting
My three older brothers and I grew up in Scouting and became Eagle Scouts in the 1970s and early ’80s. My sister Marjorie loved...
We’re missing a chance to solve migration
As the global number of asylum seekers continues to increase, migration is now a political lightning rod on both sides of the Atlantic. And...
Perlman, Picerne to be honored by Boy Scouts Narragansett Council
PROVIDENCE – Civic leadership practiced by Ocean State Job Lot CEO Marc Perlman and John G. Picerne, founder and CEO of Corvias, will be...
Local Boy Scouts organization receives national accreditation
PROVIDENCE – The Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America received a gold qualification in the Journey to Excellence Program earlier this year.
Gold,...
Narragansett Boy Scouts organization hires first female COO
WARWICK – The Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday Tiffany Bumgardner-Scheffler was hired as the group’s first-ever female chief operating...
Who’s On the Board?
Mission: The Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America provides an educational, character- and citizenship-building program to more than 13,000 youths in southeastern...