“Scouting’s Journey to Excellence”
Journey to Excellence is the BSA’s new council performance recognition program designed to encourage and reward success and measure the performance of our units, districts, and councils. It is replacing the Centennial Quality Awards Program as a means of encouraging excellence in providing a quality program at all levels of the BSA.
Below you will find links to help you, District Comittee volunteers, understand and track monthly how your area of responsibility is supporting to the District's scorecard. These reports will be updated monthly.
This is a work in progress...please be patient as we work with ScoutNET and other databases to provide you with the most up to date and accurate information possible.
District Journey to Excellence Webinar: This is a segment on the how's and why's of this program at the District level
FAQ's: This should answer most of your questions.
District 2012 Journey to Excellence Scorecard: This is what we are critiquing and the point values.
2012 District Workbooks
District 2012 Journey to Excellence Workbook: To be used by districts through out the year to see where you've been, where you are, and where you need to be.
District 2012 Journey to Excellence Workbook Instructions: To help with filling in data into the workbook.
2011 JTE District Standings
Congratulations to all the districts!
| North | Gold | South | Gold |
| Iron Horse | Silver | Brazos | Gold |
| Orion | Gold | Golden Arrow * | Gold |
| Phoenix | Gold | North Star | Gold |
| Tall Timbers * | Gold | Tatanka | Gold |
| Soaring Eagle | Thunderwolf | Silver |
| West | Gold | Frontier | Gold |
| Big Cypress ** | Gold | Arrowmoon * | Gold |
| Copperhead | Silver | Brahman | Gold |
| Mustang | Gold | David Crockett | Bronze |
| Texas Skies | Gold | George Strake | Silver |
| East | Silver | ||
| Bayshore * | Gold | ||
| Eagle Trail | |||
| Flaming Arrow | Silver | ||
| Raven | Silver | ||
| Skyline | |||
* Highest points in Division
** Highest points in the Council
2012 JTE District Data
Finance
1) Fundraising: Achieve district finance goals as defined by the council.
Bronze – 4% growth over last year finance (Popcorn and Scout Fair net and FOS gross)
Silver – 6% growth over last year finance (Popcorn and Scout Fair net and FOS gross)
Gold – 8% growth over last year finance (Popcorn and Scout Fair net and FOS gross) AND achieve all of 2012’s finance goals as stated
Finance report by District:
2011 Final Data
2012 Data
- FOS
- Scout Fair - As of April 19, 2012
- Popcorn - (Will be posted after all payments are posted 12/22/12)
2) Market Share: Increase market share (Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers)
Note: To get the district's market share data, divide total membership (including Exploring) by Total Available Youth (TAY)
- Report to be issued by National office
3) Membership/Youth Growth: Increase number of registered youth (Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers)
** Where to look for Membership numbers**
Actual Youth
- 2011 Final Data
- 2012 Data
4) Youth Retention: Improve retention rate of traditional members
** Where to look for Retention numbers (note: If there are subdistricts, they have to be combined to get total percentage number)**
Percent Youth Retained
- 2011 Final Data
- 2012 Data
5) Cub Scout Advancement: Increase the percentage of Cub Scouts earning rank advancements.
6) Boy Scout Advancement: Increase the percentage of Boy Scouts earning rank advancements.
7) Cub Scout Camping: Increase the percentage of Cub Scouts attending day camp, family camp, and/or resident camp. The Family Camping data for 2011 will be posted soon. (Note: “Family Camp” is defined as any non-district related campout at a council camping facility)
- 2012 Data
8) Boy Scout Camping: Increase the percentage of total Boy/Varsity Scouts attending long-term camp and high-adventure program.
- 2012 Data
9) Community Service: Increase the amount of community service provided by Scouts, leaders, and other participants.
- 2012 Data
10) Charter Organization Relationships: Conduct a personal visit with a key person in each chartered organization.
11) Commissioner Service: Increase the number of registered unit commissioners over prior year.
** Where to look for Commissioner numbers**
Total Unit Commissioners- 2011 Final Data
- 2012 Data
12) Unit Visitations: Improve the rate of visitations to units by commissioners.
13) Unit Performance: Improve the performance ratings of using Journey to Excellence metrics.
14) Voice of the Scout (Bounus Points in 2012): Improve response rate and net Promoter Score on constituent surveys.
- Report to be issued by National office Summer 2012
15) District Leadership: Increase the number of volunteers serving on the district committee.
** Where to look for District Committee numbers**
Total District Committee Members- 2011 Final Data
- 2012 Data
16) District Committee: Increase the effectiveness of the district committee.
- Data will be determined on the district level
17) Unit Leadership: Increase the number of direct contact leaders who are trained.
- Note: JTE District "Direct Contact Leaders" data only includes:
Updated: May 7, 2012
