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The 650,000 was a membership snapshot number posted on Scouting Forums before they closed it to general discussions. It wasn't from NAM. The NAM reports use annual numbers which for multiple years during and post Covid were artificially inflated for a variety of reasons. -
I dunno, but in my career as a Federal manager, we were always taught that if we "suffer (require) OR permit" an employee to do work for the employer, it falls within the scope of employment and they must be compensated, according to the Fair Labor Standards Act. This was highlighted during furloughs or shutdowns when we had dedicated employees volunteer to keep coming to work to be able to "keep up" and in, some cases, the workplace was their life and they had few other options. So, by that standard anything the Professional does related to Scouting could be considered within the scope of their job, even if it's volunteering in their own kid's unit. I don't see anything wrong with that, just that it would seem to violate the terms of the SB award. -
The current group of professionals and key volunteers know how (in some cases) to raise money. Grow program, not so much. Sad part is they are raising money on the nostalgia of the BSA, not the current BSA No real effort being made to add units or expand the program. Lots of excuses as to why membership decline, just no real honest effort to make updates so people (families) may want to buy what is being sold -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
Those slides from 2024 NAM. You'll notice the projection for end of 2025 was 1,224,000, all programs. Actual 2025 end was 907,950, so 25.8% below projected. -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
That was in Scouts only, not all programs. All programs 2020 was about 1 million. https://nam.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/05/Change-the-Way-We-Work-Together.pdf
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