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Which song's royalties were donated to the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA?
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"God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938. Berlin became embarrassed by the amount of money he was making from such a patriotic song. He established the God Bless America Fund in 1940 to redistribute the royalties for this and 17 other songs to the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of the USA and the Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA).
The first trustees were Gene Tunney (world heavyweight boxing champion who defeated Jack Dempsey twice), Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (politician, general, Medal of Honor winner) and Herbert B. Swope (editor, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner).
The BSA used the funds to establish Less Chance Scouting to promote Scouting for inner-city youth, blacks, American Indians and immigrants.
Rowan, Edward L. (2005), James E. West and the History of the Boy Scouts of America, Los Vegas International Scouting Museum, : p. 189, ISBN 0-9746479-1-8
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