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=== Boosting Recruitment Night Success=== | === Boosting Recruitment Night Success=== | ||
'''Question: How do I get families to attend our Recruitment Night Event?''' | '''Question: How do I get families to attend our Recruitment Night Event?''' | ||
* 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. | Note - some units focus on the following events with varying success | ||
# Open House Night: Late spring - before the summer break | |||
# Fourth of July Parade: Huge community turnout - but some families have vacation plans during the summer | |||
# 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. | |||
* 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. | |||
* During the Summer - Recruitment night should have fun activities for the kid. | * During the Summer - Recruitment night should have fun activities for the kid. | ||
* Activities and Refreshments - Build marshmallow catapults and have done rockets. We also had pizza. | * Activities and Refreshments - Build marshmallow catapults and have done rockets. We also had pizza. | ||
* Hand out flyers during school registration days. | |||
* Advertise on buy sell trade websites & local facebook groups. Indicating gender and age groups | |||
* Put flyers at the school office. | |||
* Put out yard signs. | |||
* Encourage unit members to post flyers to their personal page. | |||
* Paid Facebook to promote the post to people in our area. | |||
* Place tri-fold flyers at the local bank and a couple of churches that allow for it. | |||
* Stickers made for the little kids. Pencils and pens printed up with the pack info. | |||
* Election days we can sell popcorn so we hand out flyers | |||
* Include BBQ and had an ice cream truck come to our Recruitment Event. | |||
* Be seen in your uniform and flag! | |||
* Find something fun, and can you advertise "A community event for boys and girls grades 1-5" hosted by the Cub Scouts | |||
* 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. | |||
* Schedule Recruitment night two weeks after school starts and the school handout flyers in school packages. | |||
* 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. | |||
* Outdoor movie night with open house and food. | |||
== Scouts BSA Troop Recruitment == | == Scouts BSA Troop Recruitment == |
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