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Renewal and Growing Resources

Helping Units Retain, Grow, and Thrive:

Supporting Membership Renewal, Growth, and New-Unit Stabilization

Commissioners play vital roles in keeping Scouting units strong. They support unit and membership renewal, growth, and stability by:

  • Supporting member and unit renewals
  • Supporting existing unit growth
  • Launching new units
  • Strengthening units that need extra care

This page offers proven tools and tips, based on real-world experience, to help commissioners and other Scouters help units stay active, renew on time, and grow with confidence.

Explore the resources below to strengthen your impact and support every unit’s success.

Renewing members and units is essential to keeping Scouting strong. These resources help commissioners support, train, and guide units with timely, accurate member and unit renewals.

  • Renewal Resource: Renew and Thrive – Councils’ Membership and Unit Renewal Tips—for Councils, Commissioners, and Renewal Champions
  • Unit and Membership Renewal: Detailed information about how to renew members and units, including:
    • Short videos with step-by-step instructions for each type of renewal
    • Short instruction sheets for each type of renewal
    • Additional Resources
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • So much more

Membership growth keeps units vibrant and sustainable. Use these tools to support recruitment and help new units get started.

  • Unit Roadmap: Resource to simplify the steps to long term unit success from starting, to growing, and sustaining.
  • New Member Coordinator: Resource for helping sustain strong membership and welcoming new members and their families.
  • Dynamic Inviting (Recruiting): Resource about recruitment being a year-round process of proactively seeking youth/families through everyday intentional interactions with friends, acquaintances, colleagues, etc. that produce recruitment results over time.

New and struggling units need extra care to succeed. These resources help commissioners provide steady support and build long-term stability and sustainability.

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Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.