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Volunteer coordinators immensely love this new program. Instead of spending a month or more chasing down individuals and their pledge cards, they can complete their whole quote in just five minutes with a simple presentation where all adults attendees at a scouting function or charter organization meeting can pull out their cell phones and instantaneously pledge and pay their support. | Volunteer coordinators immensely love this new program. Instead of spending a month or more chasing down individuals and their pledge cards, they can complete their whole quote in just five minutes with a simple presentation where all adults attendees at a scouting function or charter organization meeting can pull out their cell phones and instantaneously pledge and pay their support. | ||
Live Program online working example. Complete this process for a minimum donation amount of $25. It begins with making a simple text message. Text "sdscout" to the number 41444. You will quickly get back a blue link to the FOS Webpage for my home council [[San Diego-Imperial Council]]. Click on the link. | Live Program online working example. Complete this process for a minimum donation amount of $25. It begins with making a simple text message. Text "sdscout" to the number 41444. You will quickly get back a blue link to the FOS Webpage for my home council [[San Diego-Imperial Council]]. Click on the link. That page will ask for your name, and payment card info. Importantly it also asks which scout troop/pack that you want to give credit to (in this example, select my home troop - 726). Pressing the Big Blue button at the bottom of the page will submit your payment to council. | ||
== Council FOS Brochure Examples == | |||
* [http://michiganscouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FOS-Brochure-WW-18-1.pdf Water and Woods 2018 FOS Brochure] | |||
* [http://blueridgecouncil.org/brcn/resources/site1/General/Website/2018%20Family%20FOS%20Brochure.pdf Blue Ridge Council 2018 FOS Brochure] | |||
* [https://www.wmascouting.org/files/18399/FOS-Brochure-2018 Western Massachusetts Council 2018 FOS Brochure] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
