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The adults who keep a unit running: chairs, treasurers, advancement coordinators and chartered organization representatives. These posts cover budgets, fundraising, recruiting and boards of review.
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Our monthly Troop Committee meeting was last night. While a Troop should be Scout-led any very successful Troop has a well organized Troop Committee behind it. Last night's meeting was an odd one in the fact that the usual suspects were not in attendance.
The November 2009 Cubcast from BSA National is available (free). Part 1 has ideas for den meetings and more utilizing the December " Works of Art " theme. Part 2 has suggestions on doing chartered organization service projects . Part 1 mp3 file Part 2 mp3 file [ Photo: FreeDigitalPhotos.net ] Posted in Art Projects, Artist, CUB SCOUTS, Service Projects…
Whether it be a church or the PTA, there are a lot of things you can do to partner with your chartered organization. Linda Goff, a 26-year Scouter, has some great ideas on opportunities for Cub Scouts to work with the chartered organization to benefit the community.
Family Friends of Scouting is the annual fundraising effort by the Boy Scouts of America to help local councils succeed financially. In part 2 of the September Cubcast, we'll visit with Alex Behrend, district director for the Iron Horse District in Milwaukee.
What would your Scout Troop look like without a manual, by-laws or a reasonable facsimile thereof? Would anybody notice? B.S.A. literature, to my knowledge, does not mention such documents so one wonders where they came from? In my case as a young Scoutmaster I encountered the usual litany of problems and disappointments.
1 Vote On Idea We new this year was going to be a difficult year for fundraising. We started working early on our Family FOS campaign because we knew it was a weak spot for us the previous year. We did a Indiana Jones theme and put together a really great script that included props…
-1 Vote On Idea To enhance the council's 2009 Family Friends of Scouting campaign we designed a family specific pledge form and envelope. The pledge form contained suggested giving amounts each connected to helping to support a Scout. Pledge forms were personalized for each family using the data from MyBSA fundraising.
What follows is my three point plan for reversing the membership decline we have witnessed for the past ten years. This is written with the clear knowledge that it represents one point of view (your plan may differ) and is purely an exercise in seeking resolution to some difficult problems.
5 Vote On Idea After a recent Eagle board of review, a Troop committee chair asked who had signed the application because he had never seen it. upon inspection of the application after the board of review passed the scout the signatures of the Scoutmaster and Committee Chair were from the previous two people and…
It's that time of year again where the volunteers go out and solicit for funding for the world's oldest youth movement. Friends of scouting is upon us and the program cannot survive without the additional funding from families and the corporate world.
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…
It is that time of year again when we start thinking about paying our commitment to Scouting forward to the future. Friends of Scouting is the Council's annual fundraising campaign. I won't go into great details, but lets leave it here...
5 Vote On Idea Bring along a bearskin, place the bearskin over a bucket, and ask every Cub Scout to come up and "feed" the Bear an FOS pledge card. The Scouts get very excited about feeding the bear! This increased responses to the Friends of Scouting Campaign.
