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Not sure if this is a new idea, I believe it has been discussed in the past. As a way to keep track of Scouting alumni, each Eagle Scout should receive an email address that stays with them for life. I believe many colleges are doing this already. An address could be: johnsmith@eaglescout.org or something like that. This way we could keep track of them easier. They could have it forwarded to a primary email address. It could be setup where they would have to maintain it and keep it current. In this day and age, and this age group, email is a how they communicate. There are lots of details that would need to be looked at, like, would it be only for NESA members, or all Eagles/Scouts members, or, would you get the email address with your paid NESA membership? Just thought I’d float the idea out there. Thanks for the tool to do so!
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We should consider ALL alumni from the Scouting program as a major stakeholder in our organization. While Eagle Scouts have gone on to accomplish great things so have alumni who have not made it to that rank. By putting a focus on Eagle scouts we limit our true alumni potential and push those life scouts or star scouts or scouts who just earned their arrow of light to a lower level of importance.
Currently we lose track of alumni, unless they make Eagle, once they go to college or "age out" of our programs and then try to reconnect when they are in the business world or parents. This model is flawed as it should be easier and beneficial to us to maintain an existing relationship.
We should think of alumni just like a college considers alumni, future donors and leaders of our organization. Under the guidance of a suggested national model, each local council should be looking for a professional Scouter to head up alumni membership retention, events and campaigns. There is a value in the number of alumni that are still engaged, and we should track the number of alumni just as if we trackc membership of youh. We should be tracking all of our alumni, communicating with them at least quarterly both as a council and from the national organization and keeping the alumni engaged.
There needs to be some structure behind alumni development suggested from the national organization, supported through the national organization with registration and fiscal reports and enacted at the local council level. All Alumni are potential donors and potential leaders and we should put a renewed focus and resources toward them.
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