World Friendship Fund

The World Friendship Fund is a major endowment fund of the Boy Scouts of America developed during the closing days of World War II, the answer of Scouting to the Marshall Plan, to rebuild Scouting in nations that had been wracked by war.

Since the beginning of the Fund, more than US$ 11 million has been donated to these self-help activities.

The Girl Scouts of the USA maintains a similar project, known as the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund (JLWFF).

[1] Donations also support the World Thinking Day Fund, to encourage the development of Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting in newly emerging nations.

Similar Scouting friendship funds include the Baden-Powell World Fellowship,[2] a major endowment fund of the World Scout Foundation for ongoing support of the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the United States Fund for International Scouting,[3] as well as the Order of the Condor, an endowment program of the WOSM-InterAmerican Region.