Post on 25-Mar-2020
Fall Recruitment SummitTaking Your Pack to the Next Level!
Welcome & Introductions
Bob Wedig | Vice President - Membership William Albrecht | Director of Field Service
Your Resources
• Dave Lo– Coyote Creek
• Jennifer Pacella– Loma Prieta
• Maria Garibaldi – Pioneer
• Dave Holt – Polaris
• Donna Johns – Quicksilver
• Bri Tavares – San Benito
• Barbara Said – Santa Lucia
• Your District Executive
Introductions
New for 2018-2019
• Whole Family Programs
• Lion Program Expansion
• Scout Me In
• Updated Program Materials
The Main Thing
“The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.”
- Lord Robert Baden-Powell
Sessions: Room:• Recruitment 101 Cafeteria
• Promoting Your Unit on Social Media B101and Online Registration
• Recruiting Parent Volunteers B103
• Adding A Lion Program B109
• District Volunteer Presenter Training B201
Breakouts
Recruitment 101The Basics for Growing Your Unit’s Membership
What We Will Learn:
• Introductions & 2018 Fall Recruiting Overview
• Sign up Night Best Practices
• Getting Parents Involved
• Incentives
• Q&A
• Adjourn
Cub Scout Recruiting 101
Benefits of Recruiting• Share your Pack’s Scouting experiences with new families• Offer new families a full program• Build strong dens in your pack! • Serve new markets• Improve your community• More Fun!• New Parent Volunteers
✓ Meet with School Principal (early as possible)
✓ Select a date. (complete facility use forms as needed)
✓ Schedule a second recruitment night in October at the same time.
✓ Schedule a Kid Talk day of or before the sign up meeting.
✓ Meet with your district recruitment chair and/or district executive
Scheduling your Sign up Night
Look under your chairs for some of the Top Waysto Promote your recruitment!
• How does your pack promote?
Sign-up Promotion
✓ Order supplies early (flyers, yard signs, etc.)
✓ Hang yard and community signs 2 weeks prior
✓ Deliver flyers 1 to 2 weeks prior
✓ Hand out stickers during Boy Talk
(day of or before sign up meeting)
✓ Utilize school audience
(newsletter, open house, website, social media)
Promoting Your Sign up Night
✓ Make it welcoming – have a greeter, sign-in sheets.
✓ Make it fun! – Have and activity for the kids, displays, sing a song.
✓ Keep it simple – highlight activities, touch on purpose & values, refer to parent guide and pack calendar, have a follow up meeting pre-scheduled, keep it positive!
✓Be efficient – get all paperwork done tonight, collect fees, have a follow up meeting in a week to collect YPT cards for adults and conduct new parent orientation.
Conducting your Sign up Night
Sign Up Night Agenda
Station Model
1. Sign-in / Welcome
2. Who We Are / What we do
3. Registration
4. Check Out / Volunteer Ask
5. Q/A and Meet Your Den Leader
Group Presentation Model1. Sign-in / Welcome2. Flag Ceremony / Youth
Activity3. Who We Are / What We Do
Presentation4. Registration Form / Volunteer
Ask5. Q/A and Meet Your Den
Leader
“When you want a thing done, ‘Don’t do it yourself’ is a good
motto for Scoutmasters.”- Lord Robert Baden-Powell
Getting Parents Involved
• The Giant List of Little Jobs
• Use the Parent Talent Survey
• Review Youth & Adult Leader applications
• A personal ask is more effective than asking a whole group
Getting Parents Involved
✓Turn in registrations the week of your sign up night
✓Contact all families who attended within 2 days
✓Have a follow up meeting in a week
✓Encourage adults to take Youth Protection Training
✓Remind families of next Pack meeting and all Fall activity opportunities
✓Work closely with the new Den - assign a coach.
✓Each family volunteers for something.
Follow-up
• Get them early before other teams do.
• Keep them hooked with a FUN activity within 30-days.
• Assign a coach (former leader) to guide the parents through the first few meetings and develop the new Den leader(s)
• Get them registered for training
Keeping Families Involved
✓ Council Provided Kits
✓ www.scouting.org
✓ Unit Calendar and Dues Breakdown
✓ Unit Contact Sheet
✓ Unit Commissioner
✓ Council Staff
Resources for New Families
Scout Handbook
A new handbook will be given at your recruitment night for each scout that signs-up.
• Only available at your recruitment event.
• Only qualifies for events August 1 – September 30.
• Spiral book only.
• Deliver to recruitment event by council staff and volunteers.
Incentives
Q&A
Resources
Council website: http://www.svmbc.org
National Website: http://www.scouting.org/membership
Council Service Centers
970 W Julian St.San Jose408-638-8300
919 North Main St. Salinas831-287-2020