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| ## Organize a Scout color guard for local athletic events or city council meetings. It is important for people to see Scouting as a meaningful and vital part of the community. | | ## Organize a Scout color guard for local athletic events or city council meetings. It is important for people to see Scouting as a meaningful and vital part of the community. |
| ## Financially support a youth in need. Everyone who shares BSA's strong values should be able to participate in Scouting. Contribute to Scouting and you will change a life. Read about financial support >> | | ## Financially support a youth in need. Everyone who shares BSA's strong values should be able to participate in Scouting. Contribute to Scouting and you will change a life. Read about financial support >> |
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| == School Night Recruiting for Packs and Troops ==
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| [[Image:PeachJar2019.jpg|thumb|right|PeachJar Flyer]]
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| School Night for Scouting: From June to August, watch your District Roundtable for training cub scout recruiting, and organizing School Night for Scouting in your area.
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| # '''Lots of Pictures:''' Use a large tri-fold poster board.
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| # '''Class A Uniform:''' If students are present then have scouts there. Class A uniforms are best for elementary school,
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| # '''Class B Uniform:''' Best for middle school recruiting.
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| # '''No Uniform:''' Invite a couple of troop moms (with daughters/sons in the troops) there at the table, not in uniform, to talk with other moms.
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| # '''[https://insanescouter.org/p/3383/34/School_Night_for_Cub_Scouting.html School Night for Cub Scouting]''' - One evening is designated for all parents to gather at the school to learn about and hopefully join Cub Scouting.
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| # '''[[Back to School Night]] (Fall Recruiting)''' - a one night event at the start of the school year, where we provide the opportunity to sign-up for Cub Scouts at every elementary school in the district. Most new scouting recruits come from this event. Ask your district executives which schools (public, private, charter, church-school, home-school, etc) are in your neighborhood and have not been assigned to a Cub Pack as of yet.
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| ## School Night Tips - NorthernStarBSA.org
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| ## Sign-up Night Playbook - ScoutingWire.org
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| ## School Night Planning Guide - Prepare for and deliver an effective school recruiting function
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| ## School Night for Scouting - 2013 YouTube Presentation
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| # '''[[School Open House]] (Spring Recruiting)''' -
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| # '''[[School Festivals]] (Mid-Year Recruiting)''' -
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| === Boosting Recruitment Night Success===
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| '''Question: How do I get families to attend our Recruitment Night Event?'''
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| Note - some units focus on the following events with varying success
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| # Open House Night: Late spring - before the summer break
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| # Fourth of July Parade: Huge community turnout - but some families have vacation plans during the summer
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| # Back to School Night: Late summer / early fall - A little bit late for annual planning -but this is when most families actually focus on organizing their kids schedule for the new school year.
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| * Hand out flyers at Fourth of July Parades and other large summer community events: Allow 1-2 weeks before recruitment night. Offer two recruitment nights in case families are on vacation. Even hold a recruiting booth there.
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| * During the Summer - Recruitment night should have fun activities for the kid.
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| * Activities and Refreshments - Build marshmallow catapults and have done rockets. We also had pizza.
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| * Hand out flyers during school registration days.
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| * Advertise on buy sell trade websites & local facebook groups. Indicating gender and age groups
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| * Put flyers at the school office.
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| * Put out yard signs.
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| * Encourage unit members to post flyers to their personal page.
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| * Paid Facebook to promote the post to people in our area.
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| * Place tri-fold flyers at the local bank and a couple of churches that allow for it.
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| * Stickers made for the little kids. Pencils and pens printed up with the pack info.
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| * Election days we can sell popcorn so we hand out flyers
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| * Include BBQ and had an ice cream truck come to our Recruitment Event.
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| * Be seen in your uniform and flag!
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| * Find something fun, and can you advertise "A community event for boys and girls grades 1-5" hosted by the Cub Scouts
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| * Be organized. Families can sense between a unit in chaos and the opposite - A pack with a computerized registration table, notebooks and calendars ready to distribute.
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| * Schedule Recruitment night two weeks after school starts and the school handout flyers in school packages.
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| * Our council gives rockets with a certain camp date to launch. But for them to get a free rocket kit they had to be registered.
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| * Outdoor movie night with open house and food.
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| * Got extra scout patches? (ie Last year's popcorn patch, etc) - Bring those to handout. Another attention getter.
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| == Facebook Fan Pages == | | == Facebook Fan Pages == |
