Earn a Rare Custom Council Patch and Help Scouting This Spring!

by | Jan 4, 2025 | Home Page Articles, NL 2025-01 Featured

The annual Friends of Scouting (FOS) campaign makes it possible to provide Scouting programs and activities across all 15 of our Central Texas counties, preparing youth for a future where they will lead as responsible, resourceful, and resilient people. People who give to Friends of Scouting provide the investment needed for advancement, camps, youth leadership training, camp scholarships, adult leader training, and unit support for all children, especially those in need in rural and urban communities alike.

We need your help! Can you help tell the Scouting story to our units and give their families the opportunity to participate in this critical effort? Do you have a story about how Scouting changes lives? We will offer a special council strip patch to volunteers who commit to the following Friends of Scouting presenter guidelines:

  • Attend a council Family Friends of Scouting orientation.
  • Make a pledge to the 2024 Friends of Scouting campaign.
  • Commit to giving presentations to at least two Scouting units.
  • Communicate with the units as outlined in the Family Friends of Scouting orientation leading up to and after the presentation.
  • Conduct a brief Family Friends of Scouting presentation to each of your assigned units as outlined in the Family Friends of Scouting orientation.
  • Turn in Family Friends of Scouting results within 24 hours of the presentation to the District Family Friends of Scouting Chair or Executive.
  • Follow up as outlined in the Family Friends of Scouting orientation.

If you meet these requirements, you will be one of the few people in our council to receive an exclusive presenter council strip patch!  

Worried you aren’t a good presenter? If you can talk passionately about the difference Scouting makes in children, you will be a great presenter. You’ll learn everything else you need to know in the presenter orientation.

Together, we can provide the resources for a successful Scouting year in Central Texas! Please send me a message if you would like more information (justin.brundin@scouting.org or 928-261-0261).