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The bookkeeping part of scoutbook + looks cool and I wanted to get my pack to start using it but was immediately shut down buy our oldest chair who has been in scouts for like 11 years. She said we dont want council to know how much money we have because they could potentially ask for some of it if we had "too much"... I was very surprised at this. She said she's "heard of it happening before". She also is the one that previously said that parents could not present receipts for scout related purchase and get reimbursed with the funds in the scouts fundraising accounts. I asked her who told her that and she just said "thats the way its always been" I told her that we are going to change that rule now that I am the CM and that yes, we will allow reimbursement of things like camp tickets purchased online. Anyhoo, what's your take on using scoutbook + for financial record keeping?

The church has never allowed the troop or the pack to access their internet. Its such a PITA and I cant fathom why previous leaders havent made more of a fuss about it. But here I am now, new CM and on a mission to bring my pack into the new millennium.. the deacon is ancient and apparently he thinks he "doesnt have the bandwidth" to share with us even though all scout meeting are done when there is zero church activity happening. Any advice on how to convince them to let us use it? One of our council dudes mentioned some rules about a CO having to "provide the scouts with everything they need to perform" or something like that that we could try? Eta: the activity center is a complete dead zone for all cell service or I would have just used hot spot Edit 2: for sign up night we cant take credit cards, for leaders meetings id like to offer a zoom in option, id like to host a scoutbook + how to for new parents and leaders, etc.

New CM here with a whopping THREE adults on my team. We want to set up tables for each rank during sign-up night to showcase what the kiddos will be up to. We actually dont have internet access at our CO so we will have paper applications, and be sending parents off to hopefully register at home. We want to make a lasting impression! Our council calls it round up? What are some items/ideas you'd put for each rank at each table? Thanks for any and all input ❤️

ELI5 PLEASE! how do you do virtual meetings with your pack parents and/or committee? We have such a hard time getting all the leaders together for planning, as most of them have lots of kids. Id love to be able to offer a virtual option for those who cant make it to the meetings in person, or a monthly virtual meeting for parents

Looking for anyone thats used both to give me your review. We use groupme for the pack currently. I use Band for my kids dance class. I like how Band has the boosts like fb so topics can stay separated. GroupMe is just the biggest dumpster fire if multiple topics need to be addressed. Unless im using it wrong? Is there another app im clueless about that is way better than both of these?

I have gotten some amazing links from a number of commenters over the past couple of months that have been SO helpful. I figured we could make a central drop zone for all the amazing canva/word/excel templates that you all have. Thanks for being awesome!

I realize prices may vary but just out of curiosity, what are your pack dues? Do you include Nat'l & Council in that amount? Do you include a "free" tshirt in that amount? How did you come up with your pack dues number? Anything else you "include" as incentives?

Do you all try to have pack meetings the same day each month? Do you think families prefer weekdays after school or weekends? What are your typical pack meetings like please amd thank you! Eta: what do yall do for weeknight pack meetings? We did some saturday pack meets last year at the lake and fishing etc.. but I like the idea of something more consistent and at our charter which is very available

Our pack was BLESSED with a huge donation of thousands of 3' x 5' American Flags 🇺🇲🇺🇸. ... We sell a lot of them for $5 each at our regular fundraisers when we set up in front of stores and the like. They are small and would ship with a single stamp. Can we sell these online? How would I go about all that, if so? Anyone have online sales links they'd care to share for inspiration? Once again, thank you for being such an amazing community! I have such a renewed sense of purpose to get our pack back to being amazeballs because of all the amazing resources and testimonials and advise you all have given to me!

Our last cm got canned before she was able to pass the torch so to speak, and im the only one who has mentioned being interested in being the new sm so im assuming im about to be asked to debit at our mext leaders meeting. I am looking for any insight as to how you make scheduling for the next school year, any and all examples will be greatly appreciated.Thank you.

We did our first council camp a couple of weekends ago and the nutrition was horrendous. Not a fruitor vegetable in sight until the last day when there was mixed veggies on the plate. How do I approach this with anyone?

just wrapped up my first year as a wolf den leader and during awards, the tiger den leader (my daughter's den) who had her son in her den as well, gave her son like 7 or 8 more belt loops than anyone else in the den. Many of us in the Pack are wondering about that for a couple of reasons, at no point in the year did she send out an invitation for any of the other tigers to join her and her son in these adventures. And second, does the "2 deep leadership" rule come into play here somewhere? Her husband works a lot so we know it was just her and her son doing these adventures.