Congratulations to everyone, Blackhawk Area Council has qualified as a Centennial Quality Council for the second year in a row. This is due to the efforts our many volunteers and professional staff. Without the efforts of each one of you this would not happen. Let me share with you some of the numbers for 2008. We organized 36 new units; had membership growth of 0.3%; increased retention to 73.20%; and received 21 new endowment gifts last year. Those are all great individual accomplishments but to put them all together is outstanding. In addition our commissioner service and district committees each added 22 new, trained members to further provide support to our units and programs.
Many of these goals are intertwined. For example, if we had not increased our retention number as much as we did we would not have had an increase in membership. By increasing our retention number from 72% to 73.2% we retained about 140 more scouts this year. That translates into fewer new scouts that need to be recruited to show growth. Membership growth means more families being involved and more families means more volunteers to help with commissioner service and district operations.
Soon we will be setting our 2009 goals and working on achieving those. But for now I hope you can take some time to enjoy our 2008 results.
Congratulations again to all of our volunteers and professionals. Without your direct involvement this would not be possible.
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