BSA Alumni Award description and requirements

(information provided by the BSA Alumni Task Force)

Requirements

All requirements must have been completed after June 1, 2009.

Applicants must be currently registered adult Scouters of the Boy Scouts of America.

All applicants must receive the approval of their local council's alumni relations committee chairperson and their council Scout executive.

Area I – Alumni Identification/Promotion (Complete any 3 of the 5 requirements in this section)

• Create and distribute a communications vehicle designed to identify unregistered alumni, that has been approved by the local council alumni committee staff advisor
• Assist in planning an alumni activity at the district, council, community, region or national level
• Make contact with at least 5 adult alumni, not currently registered with the BSA, engage them in a serious discussion about the Scouting program, provide them each with an Alumni Connection card and follow-up to see if they have visited the web site
• Make two presentations to non-Scout groups promoting the BSA, alumni membership and volunteering
• Obtain at least two scout profiles or stories, use them in local council alumni promotion and forward a copy of the profiles/stories to the national alumni office

Area II – Alumni Engagement (Complete all 4 of the requirements in this section)

• Make arrangements for at least two unregistered alumni to attend a Scout activity at the district, council, community, region or national level (must be different than those used below in this section)
• Facilitate at least two alumni becoming registered members of the BSA (must be different than those used above in this section)
• Personally solicit and obtain Friends of Scouting gifts from at least two unregistered alumni (must be different than those used above in this section)
• Recruit at least two unregistered alumni to volunteer at a district, council, community, region or national event (must be different than those used above in this section)

Area III – Personal Participation (Complete all four of the requirements below in this section)

• Serve on a local council or national alumni or National Eagle Scout Association committee for at least one year
• Visit the Alumni Connection web site and complete the alumni scavenger hunt
• Upload two of your own Scouting-related photos to the Alumni Scrapbook section of the Alumni web site
• Share your favorite Scouting memory through the Rekindle Memories section of the alumni web site and send an ecard to at least five unregistered alumni

(All Eagle Scouts must complete one additional requirement in this section:)

• Become a member of the National Eagle Scout Association and register on the NESA web site

Area IV – Personal Education (Complete any 1 of the 3 requirements in this section)

• Become an Alumni Ambassador by successfully completing the online alumni volunteer training
• Attend an alumni session at the BSA National meeting
• Attend an alumni course at the Philmont Training Center

Recogniton

The Award consists of a certficate and square knot; the knot emblems are controlled by the Alumni Relations folks and cannot be directly ordered/purchased through the ScoutStuff™ website.

Thanks to Jeff and the team at the BSA's Alumni Relations Service at National for their assistance and for sharing this information with all of you....it is their (and OUR) hope that as many of you go out and bring back some Scouters to our programs!