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. 

Some agencies to contact are:

1. Your school

2. The board of education

3. Your church or synagogue

4. Children's homes

5. The Red Cross

6. Salvation Army

7. Homes for the aged

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. Blood donor centers

22. Other youth agencies

23. Fire departments

24. Police departments

25. Drug information centers

26. Mayor and city government offices

27. Civic clubs

28. The United Way

29. Civil Defense office

30. Welfare agencies

31. 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. Collect old used eye glasses from homes and turn them into the House of the Blind for the poor.
4. Collect used shoes or coats for the needy
5. Collect used children's books in boxes left in dry cleaning stores and turn them into the local childrens hospital.
6. Read children's books onto tapes for use in hospitals for an auditory library.
7. Translate children's information booklets to different languages for the hospital.
8. Build benches in front of school for students to sit in, or for local park.
9. Collect clothes and toys for the local battered women shelters
10. Talk to local parks dept. about projects they have planned: i.e. making hiking trails.
11. Talk to local city about projects: i.e. gluing signs on drains not to dump hazard wastes down city sewer drains.
12. Paint house numbers on curbs for free (curbs are city property and you only need permission from the city)
13. Clean up old cemetery that is not being maintained.
14. Repair tombstone's in disrepair in old cemetery.
15. Help in city parades like 4th of July parade. Carry signs or help clean up.
16. Help in local run for charity by giving out drinks, clean up, etc.
17. Hold a music entertainment for the elderly retirement center.
18. Build a wheelchair ramp for a house in town who has a recently crippled person.
19. Collect 900 pounds of food to donate to Food Bank.
20. In a local Nature Area, plant more trees in the area. Build a pond..
21. Help preserve the history of the town by building and erecting a cemetery locator map in local cemetery.
22. Paint a room, or the doors at a local church.
23. Repair playground at local park or church.
24. Paint metal or waterproof wooden items at playground, or in front of city building, hospital, or church.
25. Repair or do work at local animal shelter.
26. Hold a bicycle safety check with the police dept.
27. Organize and hold a block safety watch program with the help of the local police.
28. Coordinate the houses on the block to have the fire dept. inspect them for fire hazards and the Police dept. inspect them for safety hazards.
29. Collect donations on the street and install a street light for safety. Contact the city about installing it and connecting it to the city pole and electricity.
30. Paint parking stripes in school parking lot.

Eagle Projects from other Troops

1. Brandon labeled sea shells and assembled collections for the use of school teachers.
2. Jeremy built shelves and cabinets to be used by the Interfaith ministries.
3. 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.
4. Andrew organized a project to upgrade old 80386 computers for use as world wide web terminals by the YMCA in their Technology for All Houston program.
5. ) A "Big Toy" for the pre-schoolers at our sponsoring organization.
6. ) As in 1), a tire swing was built. The Eagle built a large wood structure from which to hang the swing.
7. ) One Eagle repainted a torpedo and a deck gun at the Battleship Texas site here in Houston.
8. ) Some large shelving units were built in the Interfaith Ministries food pantry.
9. )One Eagle built a boat dock at a park which the troop uses for Webelos overnight campouts and canoeing merit badge.
10. ) Working with Sam Houston National Forest, one of our Eagles built bat boxes.
11. ) The same as 6 but the Eagle built owl houses.
12. ) One Eagle built trash receptacles for the local nature center and installed them.
13. ) Another nature center project was building benches in the rest areas along a nature trail.
14. Building welcome signs to our town by major roads.
15. Build a ramp for the handicapped at a local church.
16. Host a bike safety and care seminar.
17. Build bird cages for local animal rehabilitators.
18. build a pamphlet display in a local church, or make a guide to a local nature trail.
19. -planned an overnight campout for a group of developmentally-delayed persons, coordinating safe housing/tenting, adults to accompany each camper, a campfire, food, cooking, and transportation.
20. - rebuilt an outdoor chapel
21. - built seven sets of sturdy steps (railroad ties, rebar, gravel) on a banking down to a popular fishing area, thus preventing erosion
22. - 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
23. - rebuilt a spillway and small dam in a conservation area to prevent flooding and make for safer access for hikers
24. - 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.
25. We work extensively with the local conservation authority and the Army Corps of Engineers...
26. I recently completed my eagle scout project. I cleaned up the cemetery plot that contains the Spanish American War veterans from my community.
27. repainting the bathrooms at the park and sand papering all the graffiti off the wooden playground
28. built a 10 x 20 building for a therapeutic riding program
29. built gazebos and benches on the park trail for the city and planted climbing rose
30. built a prayer garden for a church
31. 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).
32. Coordinating their family church's week of taking care of some homeless families.
33. 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.
34. Putting together a door-to-door clothing drive.
35. Putting together an eyeglass donation drive involving both the Troop and the local junior high.
36. Hanging signs on trees or cementing them on the ground next to plants or shrubs identifying what they are.
37. Coordinating a blood drive at the high school.
38. contacted a nearby Retirement home and asked if there was anything they might need that he could do as his Eagle project. They asked if he would build a cement patio, landscape the area, and build picnic tables.
39. Clean up and repair headstones in an old community cemetery. 10 or so Scouts for two full days of work + Adults. Can require expertise if repairing large Monuments.
40. Build a walking trail around a lake in a local county park.
41. Walking/Nature Trails at local schools including chips and shavings to walk on, leveling trail for ease of use, etc.
42. 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.
43. Clean and repaint the parking lot for a large local church.
44. Scout organized a day-long cleanup of a recreational trail at a nearby state park.
45. 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.
46. 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.
47. Another arranged to plan and execute a large concrete sidewalk
48. Building a volley ball court for our church.
49. Fixing up one of the meeting halls in our church.
50. Building bagging tables for a local volunteer organization.
51. Paint the interior of a 2 story local church Sunday school building.
52. Move the shelving, supplies, stock, and books from a stockroom in a 500 pupil elementary school to a new storage building.
53. Clear woods, paint some outdoors equipment, and dig a 150 foot trench for a underground cable for a local church.
54. 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.
55. Paint house numbers on the curb for each house in a 700 home development.
56. Clear and develop a nature trail at a local park.
57. 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.
58. The second was painting the inside walls of a fire house.
59. Refurbished the inside of a Chessie System caboose that the town I live in purchased for a local museum.
60. Rehabilitated and painted the church garage. Replaced the doors and put a new roof on the structure.
61. Conducted a tree thinning operation in a pine plantation at a local nature center.
62. Rebuilt a 100 ft., field stone retaining wall, along a nature trail at the church retreat house.
63. Constructed a large number of wooden planter boxes for the patio of a local nursing home.
64. Set up a child ID booth at a local summer fair in cooperation with the Police Dept. to fingerprint and photograph small children so their parents would have an ID record of the child.
65. Designed and constructed a wooden foot bridge over a creek in the local county park.
66. Constructed and stained a long wooden fence along a walkway at the historical Society grounds.
67. Cleared and laid out a nature trail for pre school children with activity stations at the nature center.
68. A local cave site had become unsightly with trash and debris and graffiti on the walls. This Eagle project was planned to use acid to remove the graffiti and a group of Explorers hauled off the trash.
69. An antique, horse-drawn buggy was restored for a local museum.
70. Scouts made 27 cement boxes for tree planters in order to level the planters on one of the main streets of their city.
71. 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.
72. Writing to pharmaceutical companies for donated supplies and securing donations from local druggist, a Scout made up 150 first aid kits. He had a box company make the boxes and had a printer print contents labels. Scouts sorted the supplies and made up the kits. The kits were placed on local church and agency buses and given to homes and institutions.
73. Winter feed was needed for ducks at a local duck pond. Scouts picked corn from a farmer's field, took it to a mill to be shelled, and donated 1,200 pounds of shelled corn to the duck feeding project.
74. An access ramp was built at a church to accommodate wheelchairs.
75. Good readers with good speaking voices were selected and trained to record scriptures and devotionals on tapes for a church library. The tapes were then loaned to shut-ins who enjoyed hearing young voices sharing Bible verses.
76. Toys and games were collected and repaired for use at a home for retarded children.
77. An Eagle candidate recruited a crew of volunteers to provide counselors for a day camp for mentally and physically handicapped children. The group worked 4 weeks in the day camp supervising arts and crafts, swimming, and games. The volunteers had to take part in special training before camp opened.
78. One candidate planned and supervised the planting of a vegetable garden at a senior citizen center
79. At a home for senior citizens, outdoor furniture was sanded and painted, a shuffleboard court was constructed
80. 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.
81. 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.