Centennial Quality Award

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From our Council newsletter:

 

There are some changes being made to the Quality Unit Award as of the 2007 year. The Centennial Quality Award, as it is called, is named in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. The Centennial Quality Awards program is designed to recognize units, districts, councils, areas, and regions in achieving excellence in providing a quality program to a growing youth population in America at all levels of the Boy Scouts of America.

 

The new award begins in 2007 and continues until 2010. Each year that you qualify, you will receive recognition for that year. 2007 will have a red background, 2008 will have a white background, 2009 will have a blue background, and 2010 will have a red, white, and blue background. If the award is earned for all four years, there will be a special distinction developed to recognize groups at all levels in 2010.

 

The main objectives for the award are: direct contact leaders complete Basic Leader Training for their position, including Youth Protection Training; to retain a determined percent of our members, recruit new youth, and recharter on time; commit to recruit new adults to be active; 60 percent of youth members advance in rank for Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting or earn Venturing recognition awards, or we improved by 10 percent over last year; youth members had an outdoor experience or one activity per month, and conduct annual program planning and provide the financial resources to deliver a quality program to our members.

 

Additionally, the form allows you to share whether or not you have had visits from our unit commissioner this past year, and if your unit supported the council by participating in Friends of Scouting and the annual product sale.

 

 

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The BSA website now has information about this program: http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=xx&c=cn

 

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