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When running the District Advancement Report it would be nice to have the opption to sort by district by unit number.
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It would be nice if all of the BSA sites that require user names and passwords would allow us to use the same combination we use to access MyBSA.
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Update the individual Scout record form to match the 2009 Boy Scout Handbook.
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Innovation Engine vote count used to let you hover your mouse over the 'Vote Up/Vote Down' box and it would show you the number voting up and the number voting down. This would let you know if the +10 were actually 10 people were voting something up or if 100 were voting up and 90 were voting down leaving a total of +10. I liked that ability. It let me know if it was a popular idea or if people weren't that interested enough to vote.
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Is there a way that we can have the Policy and Procedure Manual as an E-Manual, this would save a lot of ink,paper, and less use of the printer which would save money in the shops budget. We always seem to have these updates to print, wouldnt it be much more cost effective to just add any update via e-mail.
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With the increasing popularity of the food network and the fact that almost every local television station has it’s own food spot on a morning or weekend news program there is a market here to reach out to.
Shows like Dinner Impossible could be approached to try cooking at the NSJ 2010, Philmont, or The Campaganza being held in Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Challenge the Iron Chefs to use charcoal as the secret ingredient at a Scout camp. Could Guy Fieri, Bobby Flay, & Emeril do patrol style cooking. Challenge Rachel Ray to 30 minute camping meals.
There are too many options to list.
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As an employ of an organization that touts reduce, reuse, recycle it would be great if the national organization created a partnership with a recycling company. Many states provide free outdoor recycle bins, however finding the smaller version for your desk at no cost is impossible. As an employee of a large council I would like to see the vast quanities of paper we toss, put in a blue recycle can. So how do we make this happen?
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Let me access advancement off of Mybsa.org from a home PC (where I work out of). I'm a DE and can't get information to my Advancement chairman without having to go through the registar.
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Is it possible to set up Unit Money Earning Applications on-line, just as we do Tour Permits?
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It would be great if every unit in a district or council would be 100% online Advancement. The current system does help Cub Packs because they can't add belt loops and arrow points. I know that its not advancement but important to all the boys and packs. If the online advancement had a section where packs could record and keep track of the data for belt loops and arrow points then they would be more willing to sign up for online advacement.
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Will 1910 'Throwback' uniforms be available for the Jamboree?
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It would be nice to have a series of webinars or videos that could be used to help orient a new District Executive before they go to PDL1. All in one spot on MYBSA.
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As we work to get more efficient and have technology help us, we need a report that supplies all the numbers for units for quality unit. IE, a report that tells us the total number of adults recruited, youth recruited, retention, and training % in one report. The quality unit tab on MYBSA is a good start but is not accurate and does not update enough information from Scoutnet.
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Many times we receive donations that have both the husband's and wife's names on the card. Something needs to be done so that both names can be printed on the pre-printed donation cards. Perhaps on the demographics screen a space could be made for both names. We get donors that are very adament about having both names on the card. Something needs to be done.
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Enough with all the commemorative council strips. I attended a Scouting conference over the weekend and noticed that at least half of the people in the room were wearing some sort of commemorative council strip (myself included). Some of the strips were for significant events like anniversaries. Others were for comparitively trivial events. It seems like some councils are using their council strip as a temporary patch. Enough already... granted, this is more of an observation than an innovation.
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When possible, it would be helpful to eliminate the K-6, 7&8, and high school format in ScoutNet when inputing LFL schools.
With the new license agreement structure, it shouldn't matter how we have the units broke out. The issue is with Middle school entries: if you have a school with 6, 7, and 8 graders, you currently need 1 Memorandum for the 6 graders and then a separate one for 7&8. Or, if you 7, 8, and 9 grades in the middle school you need a 7&8 form and then one for the 9th graders.
The registars are confused. Just eliminate the grade brake outs to solve this problem. Units are no longer tracked within the in-school program. ScoutNet should reflect that and less paperwork to be done. Basically... one form per school building no matter how many grades it has.
Thanks...
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Its been a long time coming, but Posts need the ability to renew online. Traditional programs have had this service going on three years I believe.
Exploring is the one program where all your Post Advisors will have access to the internet, even in rural areas (Police & Fire Posts), and be able to renew online. How much longer do our Posts need to wait for this most needed service.
Thanks...
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Every Council has a newsletter of some sort, whether it be print, electronic or social. It would be helpful if there was a central database of national news items (i.e. new handbook, requirements, factoids, etc.) that could be cut and pasted into Council newsletters. This would most likely be a function of Brand Management. Sort of an AP for BSA.
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10/26/09
In support of our collective goals of increasing membership and retention while simultaneously delivering relevant and engaging program, the “New BSA” has embarked on a new initiative to pilot Personal Watercraft, more commonly referred to as jet skis.
Read the ProSpeak article in the September 2009 issue at: http://www.scouting.org/ProSpeak/best_practices/watercraft.aspx
(Copy and paste the link)
Early in the spring of 2009 councils were invited to submit proposals detailing how they would potentially deliver a Personal Watercraft pilot program. The proposals were required to include details such as; location, training, safety, budget, equipment, promotion and staffing. It was anticipated that our first tests of this new concept would occur during the summer 2010. However, as a result of some great work by the Blue Ridge Mountains Council in Roanoke, VA, we were able to conduct our first pilot during their seven (7) week summer camp program at the Claytor Lake Adventure Base.
High level results of the first pilot are as follows:
• 280 Scouts participated in the pilot
• 90% stated the program “met” or “exceed” their expectations
• 90% of all youth indicated they were either “somewhat” or “very likely” to return to camp because of the PWC program.
• 35% stated participating in the PWC program increased their likelihood of staying in Scouting
• 59% indicated participating in the PWC program increased their likelihood of recommending Scouting to others
Moving forward, we have initiated the process of selecting additional councils to pilot the use of Personal Watercraft during 2010. All councils interested in being considered to pilot Personal Watercraft should submit their proposals to the Innovation Team (National Council), attention of Merril Davis, merril.davis@scouting.org, by November 30, 2009.
To access the proposal form, please click on this title at the top of this web page, then scroll down to find the .pdf file.
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Submitted by High School Junior Donald Lovejoy, Greenwich, CT.
"Math is Buildings" is a program that uses buildings and architecture to make math interesting to learn. I have done extensive tutoring with socio-economically disadvantaged children and I have discovered that math is often difficult for them, with simple concepts seeming impossible for them to grasp. Thus I created this program to make learning math interesting to kids. I have integrated simple math concepts with the steps used in constructing buildings. Because the steps have been itemized clearly, this program is ideal for use by volunteers helping elementary school-aged children with math.
For more information please email Donald Lovejoy at DWRL@optonline.net
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As we move toward mandatory or required training for adult leaders, perhaps we should consider implementing a continuing education requirement. Each leader being required to earn a certain number of CEU's based on their position. CEU's could be earned, for example, by attending Roundtable, a training session, presenting at a training, mentoring a new leader...
Of course this would be dependant on a method of tracking training attendance within Scout-net, an issue which is supposed to be addressed as we move to mandatory training.
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Again, I'd like to suggest that the Benefits Handbook for the coming year be available while we're making choices for our own benefits, even if the changes are or could be minor.
A link is there and all that comes up is a one page PDF file that says "The 2010 BSA Benefits Handbook is not yet available."
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A district chair in our council had a wonderful idea that has been working really well. He has started a campaign to ask churches to do a second offering on behalf of scouting. At his church alone $865 was raised in new money just last month! 2 other churches are already on board to do the same thin6 in November. It is really helping us to raise the money we need in a down economy.
Note: Some churches are in the middle of their own campaigns for their 2010 budget but I have received 1 firm commitment from a church to do a second offering on Scout Sunday (February 7, 2010). I plan to use this with many other churches that day. The Methodist Church has been particularly responisive to this request.
I am attaching some materials a Senior District Executive, Mary Beth Wilfong, came up with to support this campaign.
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My office staff tells me that effective January 1, 2010, labels for bulk mail need to have all information in all capitalized format, no commas anywhere, and some other changes. Will we have a soft-ware update to accomodate these changes? Can anyone verify this information as I cannot find this on the USPS website.
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I know that donations made to the United Way and designated for BSA are not put into FOS - the donor gets a contribution statement from United Way - not us. Unfortunately, many of our donors don't understand why they can't pay their FOS pledge with their United Way gifts.
I'd love it if there was an "information only" field to get these folks into PAS so DE's have the information as to who has donated through UW and similar organizations. The gifts would not be posted to the GL as FOS income. No contribution statements would be issued. But - it would give us a more complete picture of our donors.
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