If the Boy Scouts decide to allow gay members, it could bring back one of the organization’s main financial benefactors, Intel.
If the Boy Scouts decide to allow gay members, it could bring back one of the organization’s main financial benefactors, Intel.
In 2010 alone, Intel donated $180,000 to Boy Scout councils, troops and Cub Scout packs in Oregon, according to Intel Foundation tax filings. Hundreds of thousands of dollars more went to Boy Scouts elsewhere — triggered by an Intel policy that provides a $10 corporate donation for each hour employees spend volunteering at nonprofits and schools.
But last year, Intel said it will begin requiring that donation recipients write a letter indicating that they comply with Intel’s nondiscrimination policy — which forbids exclusion based on sexual orientation.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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