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Unit Fundraising - 3 Types of Scout Fundraising 💲 Money, Dollars, Bucks, Cash, Moo-La! - YouTube
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Unit Fundraising...
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Hey ScouterStan... I want to talk about
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fundraising. Fundraising is a
critical part of
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supporting your program.
Without the funds
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you can't have any program. Also
recharters, coming up. You have to pay for
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your membership as a scout.
Now a lot of the
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membership goes into different things.
Some of that being insurance, so it's
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important. That we're responsible
and make sure
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that we recharter and every
year. Guess what?...
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It's going to go up. It's that's just
what goes on... So
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expect that... So budget has to be
supported by fundraising,
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and there's a lot of different ways.
We need fundraising
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with scouts. I've actually had leaders
come up and tell me... "That
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they couldn't get parents involved in
scouting other than to write
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a check." They could not get
them going. That's
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not the way it should be. Everyone
should be involved
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in the fundraising. Fundraising is
important for
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the scout. The scout needs to learn
the meaning of thrifty. How other people
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are thrifty. How they wisely choose
the products that
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they sell and that money is
used directly for
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their benefit to their program.
So we need to teach that, so
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that's the important part of fundraising.
Now special note here... I am
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not an accountant, and I'm not a
lawyer. So I'm going to use
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terms that they like to use. That's
so we could talk about it. Okay...
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If you have questions, make sure
that you consult a
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professional. You might even have
some parents that could help in that
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respect. Definitely check into
it, if you have
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questions or need clarification
thanks.... Basically, there are
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three types of fundraising. In a local
unit you have been exposed
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to council level or
even regional, that is
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something that they do to help out
with units in fundraising. You know that
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we sell Trail's End Popcorn and a lot of
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councils will also do camp cards. These
are wonderful things that help us
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go out and raise money. Now one
of the major differences
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between the other two of the three...
Is that they front all of the money.
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You'd be amazed how expensive it
is to ship popcorn all over
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the country. It is expensive and
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they front the money for all of that.
They're a partner
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of that fundraising. In addition
to that
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the unit... And the... Well whenever
I say scout or unit, they are
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kind of together. And that's very
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important to understand. With that,
there's a three-way split. The
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first is the scout. They usually
get the lion's
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share. They get the biggest
percentage. Then of
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course the council needs to be
reimbursed for all of their
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expenses... And then you have
the vendor of course
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they have the actual manufacturing
of the product. That's
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kind of the process. It's a three-way split.
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As far as everything is concerned.
The next big fundraising thing is
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done at the unit level. The unit does
a fundraiser for a special event like...
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They want to lower the cost of
going to camp or they
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want to go on a special trip or high
adventure or something of that
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nature. They may do
a separate unit
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fundraiser and this... You know
what it is... it's usually
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chocolate or beef sticks or something
of that nature and there's
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many different ideas. My troop, when
I was growing up... We sold
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christmas trees. That was a big
fundraiser and a lot of
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units still do. That being the case...
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The unit can make a lot of funds
for their program. Their program can
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greatly improve, if they have these
funds. The unit
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actually splits it up. Now of course they
have their vendors
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that they have to deal with and then
they have the scout
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and or the unit. So it could be for one
or the other.
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That's really the second type of
fundraising that's out there.
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The third one is individual scouts.
Now that might be a fundraiser for, let's
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say an Eagle Project. Eagle Projects
need funding, and there
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may be car washes. There may
be the need
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for sales of some kind. There's a lot of
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different ways to raise funds for an
Eagle Project. Another big
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thing would be...
Mom and Dad....
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You've also got Uncles and Aunts and
Nieces and Cousins and all those people
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that are willing to donate towards that
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project. You will also
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have Grants... There's Grants that are
available.
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Even the people that are receiving the
project
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might actually do some donations.
These are things to think about
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when raising funds for an individual
project like an Eagle Project.
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That's definitely a doable thing.
Now one of the big things
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that I did not mention. All three of
these types of
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funding needs certain paperwork. Now the
first one, with the council. They usually
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take care of all of that. It's all
approved. It's all handled. They do all of
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that paperwork. Scouting in general is a
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non-profit, not-for-profit... The whole
thing, so we have to be very
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careful when we're dealing with
monies. There's a
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lot of accounting and legal stuff that they
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take care of... With a unit,
everything's done at a break
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even. Okay... If you're going to be doing a
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project and you need to raise a thousand dollars.
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That's what it goes too. If there's
any surplus that
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goes towards additional
program. It doesn't go into anybody's
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pocket... Okay... It goes directly
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to the unit for its budget that's the
critical thing.
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And as far as paperwork with the
last two... When you're dealing with a unit
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you need to fill out the proper
paperwork
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and you need to get approval. Before you
do any sales. Before you send off for
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samples... Before you do any of
that. Please get the
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approval first from the council office. Go to the
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council office. The service center will
help you get the right form
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and see the right people. It's not that
hard. It just needs to be done.
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Leaders, don't drop the ball on that. You
definitely want to make
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sure that you get approval and
all the required
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documents that are needed. The last
one, with the
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an individual scout doing a
fundraising...
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Eagle Project, per-say... They're
in the workbook of the Eagle Project is
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actually the form. It's all... You know,
these are things you have to
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get approval on. Before you
get the funding.
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Otherwise you may... If you don't get
approval, you may have to return
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that funding. Don't even start until
you get approval.
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Very important! With all that,
I tell you what... It's
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an important job. Being an adult leader
in Scouting and we need to guide, and
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enable, and facilitate our youth to do
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fundraising. It's a very important part of all
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of this. When they get out, in the what I call "The
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Real World". They're going to be doing that...
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You know as an adult, that you doing
a job, do... Running your career.
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That's fundraising for your family.
It follows the scout. They should learn
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these skills. It may be complex, it may be hard.
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But we can help them through it and
that's something that you do already. I
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know... I know you do that already. If you
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have some interesting fundraising stories or
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questions please put them in the notes.
I'd love to hear about it. I read all
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of the comments that are
made on our channel.
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Please join in, feel free. There's
a lot of different
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ideas out there. I'd like to hear
them all.
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And if you have a question let me know.
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That's one of the wonderful things about
scouting. It's a work
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in progress. Always think of it that way...
Scouting is a great thing and I thank
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you for being a big part of it...
and I will see you on the trail.
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