Your project must benefit a non profit organization like Church, School, City etc.  It cannot raise money except small amounts for a few items.  All supplies need to be donated by individuals, stores,  or companies. 

We would like it to be a permanent fixture.  If you mow a cemetary and it looks the same 3 weeks later.... it does not count as an eagle project.

If you give the manpower to another organizations project... it does not count as an eagle project.

And forget about collecting stuff..... not an eagle project.

Some agencies to contact are:

1. Irving Cares or Food Bank

2. Your school

3. The board of education

4. Your church or synagogue

5. Children's homes

6. The Red Cross

7. Salvation Army

8. Senior citizens' center

9. Nursing homes

10. Public libraries

11. Veterans organizations

12. Camps for the handicapped

13. Schools for the handicapped

14. Hospitals

15. Lighthouse for the Blind

16. City recreation department

17. City and county parks department

18. State and national parks

19. Conservation and energy groups

20. Army corps of engineers

21. Other youth agencies

22. Fire departments

23. Police departments

24. Drug information centers

25. Mayor and city government offices

26. Civic clubs

27. The United Way

28. Civil Defense office

29. Welfare agencies

30. Housing authority

Troop 508 Eagle Projects:

1. Build a small building at Police Safety town where small children are taught traffic safety
2. Build a sign in front of the school to announce when PTA meets each month.
3. Build benches in front of school for students to sit in, or for local park.
4. Talk to local parks dept. about projects they have planned: i.e. making hiking trails.
5. Talk to local city about projects: i.e. gluing signs on drains not to dump hazard wastes down city sewer drains.
6. In a local Nature Area, plant more trees in the area. Build a pond..
7. Paint a room, or the doors at a local church.
8. Repair playground at local park or church.
9. Paint metal or waterproof wooden items at playground, or in front of city building, hospital, or church.
10. Repair or do work at local animal shelter.
11. Paint parking stripes in school/church parking lot.

Eagle Projects from other Troops

1. Jeremy built shelves and cabinets to be used by the Interfaith ministries.
2. Robert built chimney swift houses for the Armand Bayou Nature Center in Clear Lake City. Five were built. There things are chimneys which are 12 feet tall.
3.  a tire swing was built. The Eagle built a large wood structure from which to hang the swing.
4.  Some large shelving units were built in the Interfaith Ministries food pantry.
5.  Working with Sam Houston National Forest, one of our Eagles built bat boxes.
6.  The same as 6 but the Eagle built owl houses.
7.  One Eagle built trash receptacles for the local nature center and installed them.
8.  Another nature center project was building benches in the rest areas along a nature trail.
9. Building welcome signs to our town by major roads.
10. Build a ramp for the handicapped at a local church.
11. Build bird cages for local animal rehabilitators.
12. build a pamphlet display in a local church, or make a guide to a local nature trail.
13. - rebuilt an outdoor chapel
14. - built seven sets of sturdy steps (railroad ties, rebar, gravel) on a banking down to a popular fishing area, thus preventing erosion
15. - cleared paths and rebuilt steps and benches in an overgrown, inaccessible wildlife area, leaving brush piles and wild fruit stands for wildlife habitat but allowing greater use and appreciation of the area for local people
16. - rebuilt a spillway and small dam in a conservation area to prevent flooding and make for safer access for hikers
17. - constructed and installed floating turtle rafts of cedar in a town conservation area to replace downed trees the town had removed for safety reasons, thus restoring a safe habitat for the turtles to sun themselves and avoid foxes and other predators.
18. repainting the bathrooms at the park and sand papering all the graffiti off the wooden playground
19. built a 10 x 20 building for a therapeutic riding program
20. built gazebos and benches on the park trail for the city and planted climbing rose
21. built a prayer garden for a church
22. Upgrading existing or building new hiking trails at a county park (basically the park ranger has a shopping list of things that need to be done).
23. Coordinating their family church's week of taking care of some homeless families.
24. Recruiting volunteers from the Troop and high school service clubs (including getting formal permission through high school channels) and managing their work at the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.
25. Build a walking trail around a lake in a local county park.
26. Walking/Nature Trails at local schools including chips and shavings to walk on, leveling trail for ease of use, etc.
27. Construct and install a Guide rope and Braille signs for a boardwalk at a local nature center. Nature centers always seem to have projects for Eagle Scouts.
28. Clean and repaint the parking lot for a large local church.
29. Another candidate designed, planned and organized the construction of a mobile literature storage box/podium for his church. The project was about 6 feet high, 6 feet wide and 2 feet deep, on wheels.
30. A third candidate arranged the installation of a basketball goal and 1/2 court marking at a nearby church parking lot as a recreational project for the church and community youth.
31. Another arranged to plan and execute a large concrete sidewalk
32. Building a volley ball court for our church.
33. Fixing up one of the meeting halls in our church.
34. Building bagging tables for a local volunteer organization.
35. Paint the interior of a 2 story local church Sunday school building.
36. Dig up and remove several dead trees, plant replacement trees and some new trees along the access road to a local neighborhood, and plant bushes and fix up several existing nursery beds.
37. Clear and develop a nature trail at a local park.
38. The first project was laying a wood chip trail around a local school yard for the students and citizens to use as a fitness trail.
39. The second was painting the inside walls of a fire house.
40. Refurbished the inside of a Chessie System caboose that the town I live in purchased for a local museum.
41. Rehabilitated and painted the church garage. Replaced the doors and put a new roof on the structure.
42. Conducted a tree thinning operation in a pine plantation at a local nature center.
43. Rebuilt a 100 ft., field stone retaining wall, along a nature trail at the church retreat house.
44. Constructed a large number of wooden planter boxes for the patio of a local nursing home.
45. Designed and constructed a wooden foot bridge over a creek in the local county park.
46. Constructed and stained a long wooden fence along a walkway at the historical Society grounds.
47. Cleared and laid out a nature trail for pre school children with activity stations at the nature center.
48. An antique, horse-drawn buggy was restored for a local museum.
49. Scouts made 27 cement boxes for tree planters in order to level the planters on one of the main streets of their city.
50. More than 30 hours were spent forming 40 cement blocks, one square foot each, in which metal-cased, veteran stars were placed. The veteran markers were then set in place at the headstone of veterans in a local cemetery.
51. An access ramp was built at a church to accommodate wheelchairs.
52. One candidate planned and supervised the planting of a vegetable garden at a senior citizen center
53. At a home for senior citizens, outdoor furniture was sanded and painted, a shuffleboard court was constructed
54. Building a sturdy bridge in a county park provided quite a challenge. The candidate secured the posts, planking, and concrete and transported the supplies to the bridge site.
55. Another project consisted of planting 1000 Virginia pine trees and 18 crepe myrtle trees and the construction and installation of birdhouses along a nature trail in a state park.