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Round Up / Give a Buck / Change the Future
Several volunteer and membership organizations are working with industry suppliers or conversely it may be the industry suppliers who want to associate with the organization to provide a way for purchasers to round off their order either online or at a point of sale. The NRA Round Up is probabaly the largest I'm aware of and is used by shooting retailers Midway USA & Brownells. Cabela's does an add a buck for the NRA as well.

If everytime someone bought something at a scout shop, tooth of time, or at scoutstuff.org, probably other applications as well. We should offer them the chance to "change the future" by simpling rounding up their total after tax, shipping, etc. That change could add up quickly.

Here is a link showing how the NRA has gained over $4.2MM from donations via Midway USA and over $6MM total since 1992.

http://www.midwayusa.com/nrapage.dll/gettotal?utm_source=nrasupport&utm_medium=homepage112808



Comments
cnimer 11 months ago
Well, I do not know if National will do anything with this idea, but I had been thinking of doing something similar in my council. Thanks for the link!
marc.richardson 11 months ago
What an awesome idea...I can not imagine it would be that difficult to do from a National perspective. Be cool if National could use that money to help offset something in the field, i.e., rising cost in medical insurance, etc.
mbarbern 11 months ago
A “round up” to help the Boy Scouts is fairly vague and nebulous; after all, our FOS presentations need to explain what goes to program and what those programs are etc. I think the only way this could work would be to use the income for camperships to send underprivileged boys to camp. That is a quick, easy to understand ask that everyone would understand.
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