About the Two Mountains District

This criteria evaluates the overall financial health of the Council’s operating fund by comparing operating assets to annual operating expenses. Due to prior years’ negative budgets, we began 2012 with a negative $147,000 unrestricted operating assets after improving by $17,000 last year. We greatly reduced this negative amount by $131,000 in 2012 to negative $16,000 attaining a Bronze JTE status due to the improvement. Our long-range plan is to achieve a positive operating asset position by the end of 2013.

This criteria evaluates the Council’s generation of operating income through its Friends Of Scouting campaign, Special Events, Project Sales and Foundation support. The current year’s fundraising performance is evaluated against the prior year. We fell $9,223 short of the 2011 end of year amount, primarily due to below budget performance in FOS campaigns and Special events such as the Distinguished Citizens Award Dinner.

This criteria evaluates the Council’s ability to increase restricted assets in its endowment fund as compared to the operating expenses of the council. We received $8,000 in new gifts in 2012, mostly through James West Fellowships.

This is the percentage of all registered youth members compared to all of the youth within the council’s defined geographic territory that could be members. We dropped 0.63 percentage points in 2012.

This is the percentage increase or decrease in the number of traditional youth members (Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturers and Explorers) in the council as compared to prior year. The NEPA Council, like most councils in the northeastern United States, has experienced membership declines for many years. Our current traditional membership is 4,089 (66 less than 2011). Although there was a decline, this was a small loss and we believe indicates we are nearing the end of the membership loss trend in NEPA.

This is the percentage of registered youth members that remain as members one year later. We are 0.50% ahead of prior year’s 75.08%.

This is the percentage of Cub Scouts who have advanced one rank. We achieved the gold benchmark for the second consecutive year

This is the percentage of Boy Scouts who have advanced one rank. This is a 2.12 percentage point increase from 2011.

This is the percentage of Cub Scouts registered on June 30th who attend Day Camp, Family Camp or Resident Camp. We increased our percentage of Cub Scouts camping, in 2012 to 45.8% as compared to 44.0% in 2011.

This is the percentage of Boy Scouts registered on June 30th who attend long-term summer camp, high adventure base or jamboree.

This is the number of community service hours logged into the JTE website divided by the number of registered youth members. We had an increase of 9,807 hours of service compared to 2011 with a total of 30,954 hours.

This criteria measures the number of Youth Serving Executives as compared to the Total Available Youth within the council’s geographic territory.

This criteria measures the number of units per registered District Commissioners in the council.

This is a new “Bonus” Item in 2012. We have a 78.67% email saturation rate and achieved a 54% Net Promoter Score – both well above the respective gold benchmarks of 60% and 45% We were recognized as one of the 18 “Elite”councils by the BSA in their analysis of the spring 2012 VOS results.

We have completed all three items required for Gold level.

We have an average of 38 members on each of our District Committees which is well above the gold standard of 30 and among the leading councils in the nation.

This criteria measures the percentage of direct contact leaders (e.g. Cubmasters, Den Leaders, Scoutmasters, etc.) who are trained for their position in scouting. We improved 0.77% above prior year.