2008 End Of Year Summary

Scoutreach 2008 End of the Year Report

Scoutreach in 2008 had the opportunity to create infrastructure within its operation by recruiting volunteers to take on the roles as chairpersons of the following components: Scoutreach committee, membership, council activities, finance, 3 table hosts, project sales, IC5 campaign, Valor Cup, troop collaboration, summer camp, activity / advancement collaboration, training, and Webelos transition. In addition we hired and trained 4 program specialists, and recruited 3 volunteers as program specialists. An advancement / Activity Collaboration Model was constructed as an unit mentoring program with an emphasis to partner with traditional, well-established units and have them host one event where one of our Scoutreach units would take part. Our outcome will be to increase the number of events that the Scoutreach units are taking advantage of and increase the likelihood of engaging traditional Scouters to serve as assistant leaders and commissioners. In addition, this would decrease start up unit expenses. In 2007 our membership grew from 152 Scouts to 252 Scouts at end of 2007. With these programs we were able to increase our units from our 2007’s original 5 to 14 units at year end. In 2008 we expanded our membership to 282 Scouts with 16 quality Scouting programs in place. In terms of membership we created 3 new partnerships: YMCA / Police Athletic League (West Chester), Regency Apartments (Coatesville) and Penn London Elementary School (West Grove). A critical focus was on increasing the likelihood of long-term stability by adding the essential infrastructure to sustain these units in the long run. In terms of finance, Scoutreach in 2008 went above and beyond their goal by 17 % of which $9,565 was new money, in addition to assisting in sustaining and adding to grant funding currently in place. Our Scouts advanced in ranks in 2007 with 152 recordings and in 2008 there were 187 entries into our system, in addition we tested a Character Development Connections Pilot Program within 3 of our packs. All of the volunteer heroism led to Scoutreach in 2008 being recognized with the Centennial Quality District Award, Northeastern Region Presidential Scoutreach Award and the distinguished honor of achieving the National Presidential Scoutreach Award. But none of this success would be possible without the continued support and collaboration efforts of our distinguished volunteers.