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This is more of a question then innovation. Several of my volunteers has asked why the Eagle Certificates has GW Bush as the Honorary President and not President Obamaa' signature. Is there an answer that I can give them? According to my Eagle Board Chair, President Obama also has not sent out any congratulatory letters when asked, and my chair wants to know why.
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We have sent personal e-mails to all the Eagles in the NESA list - both those currently living in our area and those who achieved their Eagle through our Council. The e-mail offered them our bi-weekly e-newsletter to reconnect them with Scouting activities. Although approximately 15% of these e-mail addresses were bad, nearly 25% of these Eagles responded positively and requested to be added to the e-mail list. For our Council, this means 150 Eagles we had no contact with before are now touched bi-weekly. Several of those 150 appreciated the outreach enough, they expressed strong interest and have been re-engaged as commissioners and other opportunities. I do believe the key to this outreach was making it permission-based (we didn't add any e-mails of people who didn't say they wanted the updates) and not automatically assuming these Eagles SHOULD be involved because of their history.
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It would be very helpful to be able to keep track of and run lists of parents of boys who earned the rank of Eagle Scout. We are very similar to a university in that we have young men who graduate from our program with a PHD in Scouting. The difference is we allow the parents too slowly fade away from us. Often times the parents are exactly the types of people we could use as commissioners, district committee members, board members, and donors etc. We capture some parent information on the Eagle application. It would be helpful if this were a field(s) when entering the data for Eagle Rank into ScoutNet by the Registrar to capture Name, Address, phone and email. Then on the back end the ability to run a report of "Eagle Parent(s)" from MyBSA or ScoutNet that could be exported to create mailing lists and also easily add to the community campaign prospect lists.
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We have several requests from parents and Eagle Scouts for a wallet-size paper card showing the rank of Eagle. Most of our Eagle Scouts create a permanent display of all awards, etc. and want a card to be part of it. We have other scout rank cards in our inventory but not Eagle. We want to know if there is a paper card too. Our boys want to be able to carry the plastic card issued by National.
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This idea is to allow young ladies to become Eagle Scouts in the Venturing Program. Starting at age 14, they would have to do all of the requirements that the boys have to do and be done before the age of 18. In theory, Eagle can be attained in 2.5 years, so 4 years is plenty of time to fulfill the requirements. If adopted, this idea would allow for more membership and more supply sales and fill a void that is not presently offered by any other girl’s group. It would require no program modifications, only a new Venturing Book for girls with the requirements in it taken from the Boy Scout Handbook. Venturing is already co-ed so it is not really a departure from what is happening today.
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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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I think it would be a GREAT idea if current adult leaders who had earned the Eagle Scout Rank to be able to wear the Eagle Scout emblem (patch) on their uniforms instead of just the Eagle square knot. It could also be made a choice between the two - full emblem or the knot.
This would certainly promote more the "once an Eagle always an Eagle" theme and promote the Scouting program to all that see the highest rank in the program. This would encourage more Eagles as adults to be proud of their youth accomplishment and even perhaps volunteer to support Scouting.
We should be significantly prouder of this symbolic promotion of the highest achievement in the Scouting program and uniform with current adults who continue their scouting leadership even after earning Eagle Scout as youth member.
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