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Show-and-sell tables, take-order sheets and the Scouts who sold the most. Leaders swapped ideas for paying for summer camp, from popcorn and wreaths to car washes and pancake breakfasts.
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The battle for fundraising dollars is on. At offices everywhere, parents peddle pizza dough, flower bulbs, Christmas wreaths and more to their coworkers in the name of financing their kids' extracurricular activities. It seems every orchestra, soccer team and stamp-collecting club in a 50-mile radius wants your money.
On Thursday, August 29, the Development and Corporate Alliances Department will be hosting a special reception at Top Hands to recognize all those individuals who have been designated by CFRE International as Certified Fundraising Executives while providing information for those individuals who might be interested in pursuing the certification in the future.
Click to open the August 1 issue The August 1 issue of the Finance Impact Department's e-Letter has been published and is available online. In this issue, Development and Corporate Alliances announces their upcoming AFP Fundamentals of Fundraising course to be held in the Northeast Region at the Tropicana Atlantic City in New Jersey.
A Scout Fundraising Project will help our Scouts get to Kandersteg International Scout Center in Switzerland next summer. We discussed lots of different ideas, did a bit of research and settled on selling coffee. We contacted a local coffee roasting company and set up an arrangement where we could buy coffee at their wholesale price…
Please note: If you experienced difficulty viewing this week's episode of The Buzz , we are embedding it below . Every episode of The Buzz also is available on the BSA Internal Communications YouTube channel . The ongoing debate about the BSA's membership standards presents some challenges when it comes to fundraising.
Boy Scout Troop 68 held its spring fundraiser last Friday, a Dad's Belgium Waffle Supper. This was the fourth year we held a spring waffle supper. The troop use to hold a Palm Sunday pancake and sausage breakfast but when the troop membership became less than a dozen Scouts we switched to the Dad's Belgium…
Click to open March 1 issue The March 1 issue of the Finance Impact Department's e-Letter has been published and is available online. While continued deliberation and input on changes to our membership standards will prove healthy and in the long-term interest of the movement, the public manner in which this debate has been inadvertently…
