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2021 Friends of Scouting Materials for Board Members Making Asks 2021 Friends of Scouting Materials for Board Members making Asks Thank you for your efforts to support the continued growth and success of the units, districts, and board of the Transatlantic Council (TAC). By making a gift to Friends of Scouting, you are investing your treasure in a character and leadership program that will impact so many for the rest of their lives. By also volunteering your time to invite others to invest in Friends of Scouting, you are demonstrating your commitment to help other people at all times. Thank you for sharing the TAC story with others and inviting them to invest in the program and services that TAC delivers every week--when youth of great promise interact with adults of great character. As you know, Friends of Scouting (FOS) is the local fundraising appeal that TAC runs every year to fund operating programs and services. Volunteers and parents at the unit level, district committees and commissioners at the district level, and board members at the council level are the Scouters who drive the success of this appeal. USAG Brussels, Unit 28100, Box 24 APO AE 09714 Leuvensesteenweg 13, 1932 St-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium www.tac-bsa.org In the 2021 FOS appeal, we are encouraging all board members, advisory council members, honorary board members, and council members at large to make their gift no later than the January 2021 board meeting. For those in units, we are expecting that units can facilitate a unit FOS presentation or I-C-5 ask sometime in January or February. Our collective commitment is to raise $240,000 in Friends of Scouting by 28 February 2021. Here are the goals that help us get to that overall FOS goal. DISTRICTS/COUNCIL 2021 GOAL Barbarossa $8,000 Charlemagne $12,000 Edelweiss $17,000 Horizon $5,000 Mayflower $25,000 Mediterranean $4,000 Flags over Normandy $35,000 Community $44,000 Executive Board $90,000 In this guide are materials to help you in your efforts as a Friends of Scouting volunteer. It includes sections on: ● 2021 FOS Giving Levels and Recognition ● FOS Ask Email to Board Member ● FOS Ask Telephone Script to Board Member ● TAC Highlights ● Questions & Answers about TAC and FOS 2 Friends of Scouting is crucial to the success of units and districts in TAC. As TAC meets or exceeds its FOS goal of $240,000, we can continue to grow our programs and services in 2021. To support each Scout, TAC spends much more each year than it receives at registration. The Council is serving more youth, in many more countries, with fewer staff than ever before. You can inspire the families in a TAC unit or volunteers at the district or council level to ensure TAC’s success. We warmly encourage you and others to consider making a significant gift of $240 to support 1 Scout, $480 to support 2 Scouts, or a Leadership gift of $960 to support 4 Scouts. Or reach further as you explore a Normandy gift of $1200 to support 5 Scouts or a Visionary gift of $2400 to support 10 Scouts. Scouting in TAC is like living in the pages of Boys’ Life magazine. With your help, you can keep it that way. We look forward to working with you and supporting your efforts. Yours in Scouting, Scott Eversman Dean Menegas Vice President Development Council President 3 2021 FOS Giving Levels and Recognition 4 FOS Ask Email to Executive Board and Advisory Council Members Dear Fellow TAC Executive Board/Advisory Council Member, One of our privileges as Board and Advisory Council members is to lead from the front in TAC’s Friends of Scouting (FoS) annual giving campaign. The Overseas Council Fee collected by TAC at registration covers only 14% of TAC’s total cost of operations; FoS is critical to making up the difference. For the FoS 2021 campaign, we’ve set an ambitious Council goal of $240,000. For us to get there, the Board/Advisory Council will need to lead from the front again. TAC needs your treasure, as well as your time and talent, in order to excel. Plus, we must inspire families at every Court of Honor and Blue & Gold Banquet this January or February, to join us in ensuring TAC’s excellence. Our triple goal for the FOS 2021 Board/Advisory Council campaign is: (a) 50% or more contributing a Leadership gift of $960 or more, and (b) 100% Participation (at or above $100), and (c) hitting our Board/Advisory Council campaign target of $90,000 Every Board/Advisory Council member needs a TAC branded travel mug. It’s yours for a Leadership gift of $960. Think of the high value you and your family have obtained from Scouting, and how it continues enriching your lives. Or you may be motivated by the Visionary level of giving at $2,400. And the recognition of two Flags over Normandy—one for your family and one to present to a friend. Please follow the Cub Scout motto and “Do Your Best”, focusing on each of the three words: you should Do something; Your best might be different from someone else’s; your Best means stretching to do as much as you possibly can, even if it hurts a bit. 5 Please make $960 – not $0 – the starting point of your consideration; you might go lower or higher from that starting point, but we ask that those that can pledge at least that much, do so; and those that can pledge even more, do so. We are not familiar with your financial circumstances, but we expect that your Best is more than $0. Your Best may be $240 (One Scout), $480 (Two Scouts), $960 (Leadership), $1,200 (Normandy), or $2,400 (Visionary), or – like many Board members last year – even more than that. The contributions need not all come from you personally. You are encouraged to raise from family, friends and others who are inspired by your service. You may be among those few Board/Advisory Council members who are just not able to support TAC financially in a meaningful way at this point in their lives, due to their age/career/family circumstances, but who make great contributions every year in both time and talent that boost our membership and program, which in turn leads to stronger council finances. If so, please Do Your Best to raise significant financial contributions from others who would not normally have contributed. And in any case, Participation from you is key, because to hit 100%, we literally cannot succeed without you. Here is the link to our online donation platform for the Board campaign; you can pay now, or specify a pledge now and pay later: https://donations.scouting.org/#/council/802/appeal/3513 If you want to give to your District campaign in addition to, or instead of, the Board campaign, that’s fine too; the links are here: https://donations.scouting.org/#/council/802/appeals Does your employer possibly have a corporate matching program for your gift? Please be sure to enquire and use it. Together, we will make 2021 TAC’s best year ever. Many thanks for everything you do for our Council! Yours in Scouting, Scott Eversman Dean Menegas Vice President Development Council President 6 FOS Ask Telephone Script to Board Member Hello, this is _____________________________ (your name). I am a fellow board member with Transatlantic Council, Boy Scouts of America. I wanted to take just a few minutes to update you on TAC Scouting and ask for your help. Is this a good time to talk? [If yes, continue your conversation. If no, ask when would be a good time to talk and return the call at that time.] Awesome. As you may know, TAC Scouting is going strong once again this year. And we are looking forward to even brighter Scouting in the New Year 2021. We serve over 5,000 youth members and 2,000 adult volunteers across Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia. We offer unparalleled Scouting in many venues: • Summer camps in Switzerland and Croatia • Incredible Wood Badge and National Youth Leadership Trainings • Klondike Derby at Kandersteg International Scout Centre • Scouters Annual Conference—training and Silver Beaver presentations • Historic Trails across Europe • Top-class virtual programs, like our SpecTACular Summer-Palooza online camp that served over 500 Cubs and Scouts One of the opportunities that we have as board members is to support these programs and ensure the success of Scouting in TAC. Each year, we conduct an annual Friends of Scouting appeal with those who directly are engaged in TAC Scouting. Board and Advisory Council members are invited to lead in this effort. 7 Our overall goal is to raise $240,000 in Friends of Scouting—with $90,000 coming from board members. We are inviting board members to consider either a year end gift now in December or to make a commitment by the January 2020 board meeting. I have made my gift to the 2021 Friends of Scouting appeal and would like to invite you to make yours. We would like to invite you to consider a gift of $________to the 2021 Friends of Scouting appeal. [Suggest the amount indicated in the 2021 Board Member Ask and Prospects document. This indicates what FOS gift the board member made in previous years and suggests a 2021 FOS gift amount.] [Pause to let the board member respond to what you just said. See if they have any questions. Refer to the TAC Highlights and the Questions and Answers sections of this document as needed.] FYI, here are the levels of giving I would like to send you a follow-up email with the links to our secure TAC online giving platform.
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