Iowa Governor Distances Himself from Struggling Boy Scouts Group - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.

Iowa Governor Distances Himself from Struggling Boy Scouts Group - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active an engaged democracy.: The Des Moines-based Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts is facing a $356,000 budget deficit that the nonprofit’s CEO/Scout Executive Robert Hopper acknowledges is “not good.” Hopper says that he expects the Council will rise from the red ink at the end of the year, but notes, “I won’t kid you, it’s going to be tough.” Interestingly, this branch of the Boy Scouts of America, plagued by “debt after years of borrowing,” counted Iowa’s current leader, Gov. Terry Branstad, among its board members from about 2005 until the time of his most recent election in 2010.