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First, Doesn't matter Secondly, All of your suggestions had already been completed done prior to my first post. I would urge you to not read between the lines of short post's that condense months of activity. YIS, John

Thanks for all the replies. When I have a nice list I'll add them to this for other area troops. Regards, John

Hello, Our troop has 68 scouts with an even mix from age 11 to 17. We are located about 10 miles east of Philadelphia. I'm an ASM and the fundraising guy. In an effort to keep up the interest of the older scouts, I have put together a three ring binder of what I would call "Weekend High Adventure" programs. These range from the two night Appalachina Trial in N. Jersey, Multiple district COPE programs, DelMarVa's 2 and 3 day canoe trips & bike trip and a few others. I am looking for other programs that you may consider a "high adventure weekend outing" within a four hour d

Greetings from south Jersey. We have a few boys who want to do a patrol trip to Washington DC to attend a MLS soccer game in Sep / Oct 2006 Aside from Rodney and Henson, can someone recommend a camp near Washington DC? Thank You John

The boys do all the cooking and each patrol invites a field leader or two to eat with them. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us - burnt, raw, half cooked, too little, too much, no matter what - no exceptions. John

The oobject lessonis to learn the scientific method.....SO Have them apply the scientific method to the following scenario They flip a light switch in the room and the light ddoesn't go on? Using the scientific method, determine why it is not working.... 1. Is the electricity on in the house? 2. IS the lamp on? 3. Is the bulb blown 4. etc,etc,etc Or make it a toaster, video game, or other

I'm the fundraising guy in our troop and here is what we have done in the past. 1 - Hoagie sales, we buy them for 1.00, work the corner on a Saturday morning starting at 10 o'clock. We sell 600 hoagies within two and a half hours every time. Profit per hoagie is $2.00, total profit 1,200.00 2. Last year for the first time we had a booth at a carnival. I cut a deal with the local Pizza Hut for large cheese or cheese and pepperoni pizza's. Pizza HUt let's us use a big insulated bag that holds about 10 pizzas at a time. We reorder as needed through out the day. We bought soda on sal

I'm the fundraising guy in our troop and here is what we have done in the past. 1 - Hoagie sales, we buy them for 1.00, work the corner on a Saturday morning starting at 10 o'clock. We sell 600 hoagies within two and a half hours every time. Profit per hoagie is $2.00, total profit 1,200.00 2. Last year for the first time we had a booth at a carnival. I cut a deal with the local Pizza Hut for large cheese or cheese and pepperoni pizza's. Pizza HUt let's us use a big insulated bag that holds about 10 pizzas at a time. We reorder as needed through out the day. We bought soda on sal

Thanks Scoutiing Again, I was able to find the manufacturer and they do indeed have a corporate donation request form. Thanks Folks YIS, John

Eagle76, Appreciate the thought although I have been down that trail already. Our local police department leases them and we are therefore not allowed to use them despite the numerous Eagle project we have completed on their behalf - including a two story spotting building at the pistol and rifle range. YIS, John

Jan, We do two big troop fund raisers per year - A golf tournament (May) and carnival booths (June) These are 100% troop profit fundraisers. Let' say we make $8000.00 on these two events. We take nine trips per scouts year. We would then dedicate about 600.00 to each trip to offset costs and the balance would go to assets, etc. We do a few hoagie sales as well. These are 100% scout account profit and they go like this. If we make a total of 600.00 in two hours and five scouts showed up then it is a total of ten hours work. So 600 / 10 = 60.00 an hour x two hours for e

Greetings, I'm the fundraising guy in our troop. Every year we participate in the township carnival and raise troop funds. This year I want to add a baseball speed radar game. I am looking to see if any of the members here may have a connection to a sporting goods store for the purchase of a good quality sports radar gun at a fair price. YIS, J Ersing Troop 184

From our homepage click newsletters. They are in PDF http://www.pack184.com/ John

Alisha, Officially - I do not know Unofficially - They put the patch on their vest and some wear the medal on their right pocket flap with other medals and the Webelos put the Heritage Pin on their colors. John

US Heritage Award, patch and medal. Last year I did it with my 8 Bears and 6 Wolfs. I made it optiojnal for the partticipation since it was 8 or 10 dollars each. Everyone participated though. Gave out at the pack meeting, it was a hit. http://www.nationstrails.com/awards/index.html John

FWIW - Here is my list of details for our pack family campout this April. Friday / Event 6 to 730 check in 730 to 9 event and snack 9 to 10:30 Campfire Saturday 8 to 9 breakfast 9 to 930 clean up / Webelos 930 to 11 Check In 9:30 to 11:30 Rank Events - belt loops / activities by rank Tigers Wolves Bears Webelos 11:30 to noon Free time Noon Opening flag ceremony 12:10 to 1 Lunch 1:00 to 1:30 Clean Up / Wolves 1:30 to 4:00 Pack Events - The Amazing Race - 4 teams Using primarily landmarks and a few compass directions

FWIW - Here is my list of details for our pack family campout this April. Friday / Event 6 to 730 check in 730 to 9 event and snack 9 to 10:30 Campfire Saturday 8 to 9 breakfast 9 to 930 clean up / Webelos 930 to 11 Check In 9:30 to 11:30 Rank Events - belt loops / activities by rank Tigers Wolves Bears Webelos 11:30 to noon Free time Noon Opening flag ceremony 12:10 to 1 Lunch 1:00 to 1:30 Clean Up / Wolves 1:30 to 4:00 Pack Events - The Amazing Race - 4 teams Using primarily landmarks and a few compass directions

I am in a similar situation only with Webelo 1's. I had 13 Tigers in 2001-2002 and excellent parents who did whatever I asked. We had to break them into to Wolf dens due to the numbers. The other leader is somehwat less enthusiastic as I am. Thru Wolf, Bear and now Webelo 1 I have invited the other den to everything I am doing except for den meetings. All correspondence I send to my parents, I sent to the otehr dens parents. I have a group email list for my den and the other den. When I am having an event, trip or whatever, I simply add the other den and extend an invite for them to

Hi Folks, I appreciate all the information. Bottom line seems to be that the boys must provide a service or sell a product in order to raise troop funds. Furthermore, this activity must be pre-approved and in accordance with established guidelines. I did (join, volunteer, get drafted) to the fund raising comittee and I am trying to learn the rules and reg's so I can stay within them. I'm simply trying to think past candy bar sales, hoagie sales, candles, chips and the like while following the guidelines. Between soccer, baseball, cub's, boy scouts, hockey, PTA, basketball, I

New to Boy Scout rules and reg's but I have been in Cub scouts a loooooooong time. I am getting involved in the fundraising end particularly to offset costs for 2005 jambo. I am trying to understand the fit between corporate sponsorships and troops. I have no trouble approaching local companies on behalf of the troop however, how does that mix with Scouting. They can simply donate money but they are supposed to receive something of fair value in return. I could take a scout with me and offer troop services, but what? I'm thinking it would be legitimate if the troop sought ou