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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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