I was going to post this as a comment to a post below about the cost of walking on to camp properties. Then, I started doing some research, and thought this would make a good post all on its own. I often see posts about Scouting groups selling off property, or raising fees, etc. I just took a quick look at the annual report. There are only 4 donors over $75k. In total, there are only 25 donors who contributed more than $2500 last year. Many of those were personal donations. Each of us likely donates more than $2500 of value in terms of our own time in a year. (Except the mythical people who only do an hour a week). According to the annual report, Scouts Canada raised only $1.9m last year. Im going to hope that excludes all the fundraising done by individual groups and sections. That seems, to me, to be a low dollar amount? Perhaps Scouts Canada could use a stronger focus on fundraising at the National level? Something just feels wrong about the fact that the $4.4m collected in membership fees every year barely covers the costs of salaries and benefits to the paid employees of Scouts Canada, and the programme itself is mostly left to the volunteers to run, and the costs for the activities are additional costs that need to be fundraised locally, or incurred by the families. Maybe Im not looking at this objectively. Can someone play devils advocate for me, here?
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:27:41 +0000
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