By oda591 on Nov 9, 2007 in Organizational | Comments Off
This was my idea for our venture crew fundraiser (which was never followed up). I heard this story a from another venture advisor that they sold BSA mouse pads on ebay and made enough money to travel to Denali and to Morocco.
On this idea - I bought one of these antique repro maps for my [...]
By oda591 on Nov 8, 2007 in Organizational | Comments Off
This is a pretty useful document to help conduct boards of review. If anyone can find a better one, send across.
borguide.pdf
By oda591 on Nov 8, 2007 in Organizational | Comments Off
A good resource for free topo (topographic) maps. Sometimes you have to piece sections together in powerpoint but it works.
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=4892560&e=287082&s=100&layer=DRG25&size=l&u=0
June08 update: I had to use topozone for something and I see they’ve sold out to trails.com. It is no longer free. I don’t see the point of trails.com and paying for trip ideas and info. [...]
By oda591 on Nov 5, 2007 in Organizational, Scouty | 0 Comments
This was sent to me last year. If you need something like this, here is a pretty good example -
t-minus-275-days.ppt
This one focuses on initial information to relay:
philmont-parents-night.ppt
Here is a very comprehensive set of Word docs covering all aspects of Philmont. This comes from a friend who has done it all. Philmont Prep Complete Doc Set Download
By oda591 on Nov 5, 2007 in Organizational, Troop/Crew Tools | 0 Comments
Maybe you can use something like this…
brochure1.ppt
These guys also put together a decent brochure if you are looking for ideas:
t97brochure.pdf
By oda591 on Nov 5, 2007 in Organizational, Troop/Crew Tools | 0 Comments
See attached, used during a kickoff meeting for a local crew. Maybe you can find your own use for something like this. Venture crews are kid run, but they need help realizing all there is to do out there.
The third doc is not my work, but I found useful. The question always comes up - what is [...]
By admin on Nov 5, 2007 in Organizational | 0 Comments
Trip leaders take this necessary step far too casually.
I’m somewhat scared to death that when I, as a volunteer doing something nice for other people, put myself, home and assets in jeopardy every time some kid jumps in my car for a ride. I am not an attorney so I don’t know if this doc can [...]