There is still time to sign up for the August Kernels Trainings and Kick-offs!  There is NO CHARGE to attend the training events.  With all of the changes to this year's sale, it is important that your unit send at least one representative.
 

Tickets are still available for both the August 2 Railcats and the August 9 Boomers games for only $5.00 each!  What a great summertime activity for your unit that will "butter" them up for your own unit's popcorn kick-off!

Schedule of Events

3:00-4:30pm - Kernel Training
5:00pm - Scout Activities Open
6:00pm - First Pitch!

Download Kernel Training & Kickoffs Flyer

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2014 Gary RailCats Stadium Diamond Club One Stadium Plaza Gary, IN 46402 RSVP by Wed July 30

-OR-

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2014 Schaumburg Boomers Stadium Picnic Area 1999 Springinsguth Rd Schaumburg, IL 60193 RSVP by Wed Aug 6

RSVP for the training online or email your RSVP to kristy.rispens@scouting.org.
Please include your name, email, phone number, council, unit number, and which training you will attend with your RSVP if emailing

Scout Night game tickets have been discounted to $5.00 each and must be purchased from the teams directly, see registration forms below. Transportation for Scouts and families is available for a nominal fee and must be purchased prior to the game using the link(s) below.

Scout Night Flyers & Transportation 

August 2nd - Gary RailCats	August 9th - Schaumburg Boomers
Scout Night Flyer & Registration Form	Scout Night Flyer & Registration Form
Bus Transportation Information & Registration	Bus Transportation Information & Registration

If your unit has not yet signed up to sell, please do so ASAP, even if you sold last year.  www.scoutpopcornsale.com/signup 

What Scout would want to meet and sell popcorn to Coach Q?!  YOURS!  Here's how:

Scouts can submit a 60 second or less video showcasing their best popcorn sales pitch!   We want to hear what cool Scouting things your Scoutswill get to do if they meet their popcorn sales goal!  

Four Scouts, one from each Council, will be chosen to be a part of this elite "Final Four" Sales Team and be able to participate in the "Ceremonial 1st Buy" to Coach Q of the Chicago Blackhawks in September!  

Entries are now being accepted.  Get the directors cut done early, all entries are due September 1, 2014!

Visit www.scoutpopcornsale.com/contest for all of the details on how to enter!

Last time we talked about the Planning step of the Ideal Year of Scouting process where you put all of your Scouting dreams for the year down into a unit calendar.  Now we to figure out how much all of those activities are going to cost by completing the Budgeting step!

This step should be completed now so that you can use the budget to set your per-Scout fundraising goal prior to placing your unit’s popcorn order.  Don’t recreate the wheel!  Use the budget template for your program level found at www.scoutpopcornsale.com/IYoS_Budgeting.

We start by listing out all of the expenses that our unit will incur throughout the year such as: registration fees, Boys’ Life subscription fees, advancements and recognition, program materials, activity/event fees.  Expenses should be listed as a per-person cost, spreading the cost of everything equally across all members.

The unit should have a good idea of the expenses for activities or events that they have participated in previously or that have a long standing tradition in the district/council.  These activities and activities with outside groups such as Scout Days can be estimated based on the previous year’s costs and should estimate a small price increase each year.

New activities that the unit has added to the calendar based on member’s suggestions (from the Listening step) should be assigned a parent or volunteer champion.  The champion of each event will research and put together a per-person budget for their activity.  Assigning each person only one event to research makes this task easy.  Plus, when it comes time to find someone organize the actual outing, you already have a champion who knows all of the details!

The next step in the budgeting process is to identify the source(s) of unit income for the year.  Holding only one fund-raiser per year, the popcorn sale, will help prevent having to ask families for extra money every week.

Next time we’ll walk you through the Funding process and give you some tips and tricks on how to make your popcorn sale the best yet!

To learn more about the 5 steps to the Ideal Year of Scouting, visit www.scoutpopcornsale.com/IYoS.