The current group of professionals and key volunteers know how (in some cases) to raise money. Grow program, not so much. Sad part is they are raising money on the nostalgia of the BSA, not the current BSA
No real effort being made to add units or expand the program. Lots of excuses as to why membership decline, just no real honest effort to make updates so people (families) may want to buy what is being sold
Those slides from 2024 NAM. You'll notice the projection for end of 2025 was 1,224,000, all programs.
Actual 2025 end was 907,950, so 25.8% below projected.
That was in Scouts only, not all programs. All programs 2020 was about 1 million.
https://nam.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/05/Change-the-Way-We-Work-Together.pdf