Membership and Relationships

The Boy Scouts of America: A Membership Organization

The district membership committee is primarily responsibile for:

• Relationships with community organizations,
• The organization of new units in order to provide opportunities for youth membership growth, and
• Youth recruitment.

Five Sources of Membership Growth:

• Growth from new units (responsibility of the membership committee).
• Growth from youth recruitment/additional enrollments (responsibility of the units and membership committee).
• Growth from program transition (Tiger Cub to Cub Scout, Cub Scout to Webelos Scout, Webelos Scout to Boy Scout) (joint responsibility of the units, membership committee, and commissioner staff).
• Growth from stopping dropped units (responsibility of the commissioner staff).
• Growth from increasing tenure/more youth re-registered at unit charter renewal (responsibility of the units and commissioner staff).

Check out these recruitment websites from the National Council

• Join Cub Scouts
• The Scout Zone

General Resources

• The Membership Cycle
• Selecting Quality Leaders
• Membership Events
• Registration & Boys' Life Fees Chart
• Peer-to-Peer Rally Campaign

Cub Scout Recruitment

• Cubmasters's Disappearing Packet
• The Boy Recruiting Presentation
• Scout Night Round-up Checklist

Boy Scout Recruitment

• Webelos-to-Scout Transition
• A Year-Round Guide to Boy Scout Recruiting
• Troop Open House
• Troop Open House Checklist

Venturer Recruitment

• First-Nighter Committee Planning
• Venturing Activity Interest Survey