What?? You've Got to Be Kidding Me with These Membership Numbers!

[skeptic]

You cannot take Scouting out of the larger community or its issues.  You can fliter that community through the tenets of Scouting to make the community hopefully better.  YP or whatever the current name is, represents a positive feedback into those larger communities, and the concepts continue to evolve and get stronger, which in turn helps both the program, and those it serves.  

 

[jcousino]

4 hours ago, Eagle94-A1 said:

Or professionals ignoring, shouting at,  or cursing out volunteers

For me it been failing to follow thier own rules. Plus the price to pay to play was very high. Cash was king in kind donations where of little value.

[Tron]

4 hours ago, jcousino said:

For me it been failing to follow thier own rules. Plus the price to pay to play was very high. Cash was king in kind donations where of little value.

Cash is king is absolutely true. My district has one of the most useless human beings in existance as one lf the vice chairs but he's always going to be a vice chair because of his matching cash donation.

[Eagle94-A1]

12 hours ago, Tron said:

Cash is king is absolutely true. My district has one of the most useless human beings in existance as one lf the vice chairs but he's always going to be a vice chair because of his matching cash donation.

Funny thing is this: if you scream and curse out that top level volunteer, he may stop donating.  And he may tell his buddies what happened, and they stop giving too. That happened.  District had to drop their FOS goal severely since they did this. The current goal is 10% of what is was when I first got here, and that is not adjusting for inflation.

Worse part is the DC was actually doing something.

[InquisitiveScouter]

24 minutes ago, Eagle94-A1 said:

Funny thing is this: if you scream and curse out that top level volunteer, he may stop donating.  And he may tell his buddies what happened, and they stop giving too. That happened.  District had to drop their FOS goal severely since they did this. The current goal is 10% of what is was when I first got here, and that is not adjusting for inflation.

Worse part is the DC was actually doing something.

You'd almost think that old English dude was on to something when he said,

"The one part which I can claim as mine towards promoting the movement is that I have been lucky enough to find you men and women to form a group of the right stamp who can be relied upon to carry it on to its goal. You will do well to keep yours eyes open, in your turn, for worthy successors to whom you can, with confidence, hand the torch. Don’t let it became a salaried organization: keep it a voluntary movement of patriotic service."

(emphasis added)

https://thescoutingpages.org.uk/bps-last-message/

Edited April 8 by InquisitiveScouter

[Jameson76]

As we are well into April now (quick check of the calendar).  Wonder what the numbers are now? 

My intuition tells me that an organization based and financed by membership and units that does not in fact publicly publish the figures about member and units likely has a growth issue with member and units.

Call me crazy