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My suggestions would be: Just like other businesses (restaurant chains, retail operations? close down (merge) underperforming councils. No discussion just do it. As much as it pains close/sell camps who have so much outstanding maintenance that cannot be supported by the council they are affiliated with. or their capacity is less than x% (each camp is probably different) Downsize and Reorganize councils by function vs districts. Districts are historically under staffed with holes in areas that should be under one person Customer service is poor...fix it...waiting weeks for answers is unsatisfactory and make the volunteers thing they don't care so they ignore the councils/districts I count 3 councils who have more scouts in April than they did in December. I would propose - but no one cares what I think - to reorg by function: Finance, Budget, fundraising Operations, Membership, registrar, advancement, eagle process, clearances, data analysis Unit Support, Commissioners, training Facilities, camps Camping, outdoor programs, summer camps, camporees,etc Anyway as I said no one would even try but the "traditional org" is not working.

Corporations with Strategic plan big ideas but no execution other than (tell units membership is down - go recruit! 🙃) will continue to slide into obvilion. 56 councils with conditional charters is 25% of the total numbers - some of these probably won't meet the metrics 22% of the latest total membership is in 10 councils -membership more than 10000 18% of councils have less than 1000 youth and 9 of those less than 500. camps at 30% capacity even having only 3 weeks of scout camp - kids want a entire summer job so they don't apply or come back. Councils are individual competing feifdoms and there is no incentive to merge. Yet the basic management model hasn't changed. I hope for the best and not just more of circling the wagons and shooting inwards. JMHO.

The 877K number was reported as membership is the Dec 25 report.

Just remove all requirements and call it a day.

Have you seen the commercial where things are going haywire and the female says we need someone who knows COBOL and the guy says what's COBOL.? Scouting HQ IT uses this program.

Is the new YPT have to be done by every adult by May 31st ? What if a scouters doesn't expire until september?

My friend sent me the end of March numbers 2026. 767394 2025 949373 i don’t know if those numbers include LFL

I remember there were codes you put on scouts that you weren’t rechartering. E.g. aging out, moved, didn’t want to recharter etc. where did that data go and why doesn’t bsa collect it?

There is an indeed.com commercial about a manufacturing line gone amok. The women says does anyone know COBOL? The guy says Whats COBOL? that all you need to know about BSA IT. 😜

There used to be a chart showing number of scouts by sponsoring organizations. Anyone seen that recently?

Does anyone have any idea how many trans and gay youth we are even talking about?

I heard there are a large number of councils under conditional charters for 2026. If they don't meet certain benchmarks ) I assume membership growth and raising $$ they can subject to be merged. Free membership for military scouts is an interesting idea. My friends troop is made up of Colonels and Lt Cols who certainly can afford the registration. Junior soldiers most likely do not have children who are of scouting age.

Scoutldr cmon….how else can scouts “get” all the MBs by 14?

Can we split this topic into the two things people are posting about? my friend sent me numbers for December. Total membership around 877k.

Did anyone see this from Mr. Krone? Membership: Recruitment and Retention In 2025, we focused on growth by hiring an executive vice president of membership and leveraging Lilly Endowment funds to hire unit growth executives for councils. We also expanded our marketing efforts, driving a record number of visitors to BeAScout.org. I am pleased to report that by the close of 2025, we will have recruited almost 260,000 new members. But membership is more than recruiting — it is also retention. In the coming year, we will intensify our focus on retention and on delivering a more meaningful experience for all members. If we recruited 260,00 new members but the overall membership through November is around 900,000 where did 260,000 that were on the rolls the end of 2024 go?