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