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0 Vote On Idea On MyBSA Home Page - Funding Tab - Key Indicators Tab Change report printing set up to allow CNCL KeyFin Operations Report, CNCL KeyFin Debt and Account Report and CNCL KeyFin Cash Management Report to be printed on one sheet.
1 Vote On Idea In addition to the castels/ forts etc in the Cub and Webelos program, why not create a "body movement" (think kinestetics or proprioception) activity area. This would be a location in camp where the child could go to learn the proper body movements to: Throw or catch a ball Do a…
0 Vote On Idea Offer youth the option of membership in the Boy Scouts of America till age 21 with a discount for paying in full. A parent could register a first grader for 12 or 14 years, for example.
0 Vote On Idea I've had the same password for my e-mail account since I started working for the BSA about eight years ago. I can't think of any other password that I don't change or update on a regular basis.
1 Vote On Idea Could District Advancement chairs be given an account to the Internet Advancement system where they could learn about the system themselves, as well as potentially monitor unit-level advancement? The current ScoutNet reports are cumbersome and hard to understand for a volunteer and don't give too much detail.
2 Vote On Idea I was chatting with my barber about how he had over 10 different subscriptions to various magazines from Sports Illustrated to People Magazine. I was curious because I thought it must have cost him a fortune to keep all those subscriptions current, but he said they were free to him.
0 Vote On Idea Needs to allow District Commissioners, ADSC's and District Executives to enter "visit" info for all units in their Districts. Comments (1) Category/Tags : District and Council Operations (4) Mark as duplicate
1 Vote On Idea In order to help data management, make unit leader lists easily portable to excel files.. Currently we have to do one group at a time... for instance, all Scoutmasters, All ASM, etc. One at a time. Comments (0) Category/Tags : Volunteers (23) Mark as duplicate
1 Vote On Idea In order to keep a clean merit badge list, back ground check, and youth protection standard. We should charge a nominal fee for Merit badge counsselors. The national Scoutnet does not work in keeping this list current.
2 Vote On Idea 1) Has any consideration been given to eliminating the requirement that units must still submit paper copies of advancement reports to the Council Service Center? 2) Our council requires troops to provide the counselor's name for each merit badge that is submitted.
2 Vote On Idea I suggest that instead of having two main meetings a year which need to be traveled to, Top Hands and the National meeting, that those two meetings be combined to a one location, week-long or 6 day meeting.
-1 Vote On Idea Change the fiscal year end to June 30. Many Councils raise a huge portion of their budget in the fall with product sales, and have no time to recover if they encounter problems. This could also possibly reduce auditor fees because we would engage them during thier 'off season'.
2 Vote On Idea It is not a small or insignificant change, if, as I believe, it would: 1. Increase Cub Scout retention, as parents see greater value in the program's values. 2. Increase Cub Scout parent interest in having their son stay in Scouting and become a Boy Scout.
0 Vote On Idea We need to stop putting units from the same Council in the same Sub-Camps. I got to attend the 2001 Jamboree as a youth. My Troop was placed in Sub-Camp 20, the "All American" Sub-Camp as it became known, while the other 6 Troops from my Council were all placed with…
0 Vote On Idea Many councils carry accident insurance for their units and collect the fee at recharter time. But their is no place for insurance fees due on the charter renewal form and it is not calculated when rechartering online.
-1 Vote On Idea As a very recent graduate of PDL-1, and a Scouter with over 20 years in the program, I would suggest allowing a Council to be run by DE's that recently graduated PDL-1, with guidance from an experienced Council Scout Executive and/or Field Director.
1 Vote On Idea Hello, This requests comes not only from myself but also my voulenteers. It is very frustrating being a MAC user and not being able to access any myBSA information when I am at home. Not just MAC but not being able to do the recharters on Firefox web browser.
2 Vote On Idea I expect a large push back on this but what if we could deliver Scouting online via the current Lone Scout Program? The GSoUSA seem to have a similiar program where girls can join online and complete badges and such.
4 Vote On Idea I love the old TV ads that ran encouraging boys to join Scouting. It would be a great bit of nostalgia to re-air some of these ads as a "Happy 100th Birthday" salute campaign. Comments (0) Category/Tags : 100th Anniversary (20) Mark as duplicate
0 Vote On Idea In the spirit of going green and saving money why not look into installing hand blowers in all the BSA bathrooms instead of the paper hand towels we use now. Not only would we be saving trees, but money as well.
12 Vote On Idea Recently, the Innovation and Strategy Group received a request from the Action Sports Association, a non-profit organization focusing on increasing awareness, education, promoting activities and preserving awareness for the action sports industry especially, skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding, and bmx biking.
6 Vote On Idea I actually have several concerns about administering Internet Tour Permits. 1. Currently Internet Tour Permits are sorted by Unit ID Number. It would be more convienent to the Tour Permit Administrator if they were sorted by status with the recently submitted tour permits at the top of the list, since these…
6 Vote On Idea Make available Cub & Boy Scout handbooks in various languages besides English and Spanish i.e. Korean, Chinese, German, Japanese, etc. Comments (0) Category/Tags : Other (66) Mark as duplicate
9 Vote On Idea One of the primary functions of the Cub Scout Pack Committee is the control of finances for the unit, as subject to the regulations of the Chartered Organization. The position of "Pack Treasurer," serving as a member of the Pack Committee, should be formalized and required as part of the minimum…
0 Vote On Idea I am constantly being asked "where do my patches go on the new uniforms?" This is especially relevant to the "Trained" strip and the Commissioner's Arrowhead. I've seen Trained strip in multiple locations... on the arm pocket flap, under the pocket, over the pocket.
1 Vote On Idea As most council do, we make every effort to do our FOS presentations at a Blue and Gold Dinner with each Cub Scout Pack. We have also developed and encouraged a Red and Green Dinner for Boy Scout Troops and a Green and Yellow Dinner for Venturing Crews.
0 Vote On Idea Especially during the fall recruitment, volunteers are attending training before the applications have been signed and the person is registered in the system. This makes it difficult to correctly record training. Is there not a way we can put someone in the system in a pending file?
0 Vote On Idea It would be nice if we could have applications that include the new $10.00 fee for Exploring. I had heard that these would be out back in October...and have yet to see them. Is there a reason for this? Comments (0) Category/Tags : Learning for Life (5) Mark as duplicate
0 Vote On Idea For to long troops and packs have been asked to go to the Good turn for America website and document their service projects. How many times have they contacted the council office asking for their password because they forgot or lost it.
2 Vote On Idea I think it would be neat to have a system set up nationally where potential charter partners could go for information about sponsoring a scout unit or LFL Group. They could then submit their information which could be forwarded to the corresponding council for follow up.
2 Vote On Idea Would it be possible to secure similar web sites addresses to joincubscouting.org...so that when/if a prospective Scout parent or youth may be trying to type in the address: joincubscouting.org .....and for what ever reason types in something different: Example: joincubscouts.org / joinscouting.org / joinscouts.org / etc...
0 Vote On Idea There is no question that we need to save money whenever and wherever we can. Regardless of the state of the economy. But instead of cancelling things like Top Hands or other professional training opportunities, we need to find ways to make them more economical without losing the things that make…
3 Vote On Idea Since there is a big video gaming culture in the youth today, why not capitalize on that by implementing some of the following: - Instead of merit badge training books, why not video game simulations which are akin to what the DoD does when they train service personel.
4 Vote On Idea There are 12 promoted career clusters in the Exploring program. There are promotion materials (brochures / fliers geared toward youth) available only to the Aviation, Fire, and Law Enforcent clusters. As big as Health Care, Law, and Engineering careers are, it would be helpful to have brochures / fliers made in these career…
0 Vote On Idea Can national or the regions lend out 8-foot folding executive recruiting displays or retracting banner signs for use at career fairs? I was at a major university's career fair yesterday, and was really struck by the displays that most of the employers had.
0 Vote On Idea Consider a test site of all the MyScouting Apps (Recharter, Tour Permits, Unit Commissioner Tracking) that all MyBSA users could access and experience using these tools as a unit volunteer (i.e. Scoutmaster, Commissioner, etc) would (Filling out a Tour Permit, Rechartering, etc.)
0 Vote On Idea Can National Supply offer three different (sized?) reasonably priced good quality pinewood derby trophies for first, second, and third place? Comments (0) Category/Tags : Other (64) Mark as duplicate
0 Vote On Idea In recent years I have noticed a trend in our council away from qualified individuals in the community who serve as a merit badge counselor toward Scouts only earning them in group sessions at the troop level or at summer camp.
2 Vote On Idea Can we approach the nationally syndicated cartoonists and have a 100th Anniversary cartoon celebration for Scouting Sunday 2010. Snoopy, Garfield, Flintstones, etc. have used Scouting in their story lines, how about a tip of the hat back to us? Comments (0) Category/Tags : 100th Anniversary (17) Mark as duplicate
1 Vote On Idea Every month Boy's Life has several stories of Scouts who have responded to a crisis. We should create a web site that has all of the S.I.A. stories ever published. We should also add a where are they now follow up piece to each story.
0 Vote On Idea Since contribution statements should be mailed for donations of $250 or more, we should look at how ScoutNet generates them. For example, if I donated $25 ten times during the course of a year, a contribution statement would not normally be generated because no single gift was over $250.
-1 Vote On Idea With unit, non-unit, district, and council rosters available online from ScoutNet is it really necessary to print expire rosters for archive storage? Think of all the resources we could save by printing these items on a per request basis. Comments (0) Category/Tags : Applications & Registration (24) Mark as duplicate
0 Vote On Idea Would it be possible for some type of communication to be shared with all parties involved concerning the ordering of the BSA dress uniform? National Supply Group is working with Men's Warehouse on this project. Our newest professional staff member visited our local Men's Warehouse to spend over an hour while…
1 Vote On Idea Professionals, ADCs and District Commissioners need to have access to the unit visit comments without having to export to an excel document. It is very cumbersome. It would be best if there was a link to a pop-up window at the end of the visit line.
0 Vote On Idea One of the most powerful things I've heard on the radio (NPR) lately is the ongoing collection called StoryCorps. The format is simple: two people are recorded as one recounts a personal story that the other was involved in.
1 Vote On Idea We have two postions included in the other registrant postions that I have had unit leaders express a desire to have: Scouter Reserve and College Scouter Reserve There are several scouts that would like to remain registered with their unit and are away at college or have significant ties to a…
0 Vote On Idea There are many Scout Shops that service parents and volunteers far from a Council office. It seems to me that these shops should be able to order Youth and Adult Applications to hand out. I'm told that currently Scout Shops are unable to order these Membership Applications.
0 Vote On Idea There is a National Summertime award to encourage units to continue meeting and doing activities during the summer, why not have a webelos to scout transition award nationally? Many volunteers tend to put focus and priority on opporunities when there is an incentive attached.
0 Vote On Idea Include Scouting Heritage as a Merit Badge. Many of our Scouts do not know about the movement of Scouting. Requirements could include some of the following. 1. Write an essay about one of the Founders of Scouting 3.
-1 Vote On Idea I know up until around 1965 it was possible for an adult to earn the eagle rank. Out of the first nine eagles earned, at least one was an eagle scout. I know some of the arguments for and against allowing this.
