Venturing Summit Award Service Project Workbook

Venturing Summit Award Service Project Workbook

Venturing Summit Award candidate’s full legal name

Please give a name to your project

Only This Official Workbook May Be Used

Venturing Summit Award candidates must use this workbook in completing the Summit Award service project. This workbook may be copied and distributed; however, no forms or other content may be added or removed, and no changes may be made to the requirements, text, or graphics included in this workbook.

Venturing Summit Award Service Project Workbook, No. 512-938
December 2014

Contact Information

Summit Award Candidate

Full legal name: Birth date:

Email address: BSA PID No.*:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Preferred telephone Nos.: Pathfinder board of review date:

*Personal ID No., found on the BSA membership card

Crew Information

Crew No. Chartered organization

District name: Council name:

Crew Advisor

Name: Preferred telephone Nos.:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Email address:

Venturing Project Approval Representative

Name: Preferred telephone Nos.:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Email address:

Project Beneficiary (Name of religious institution, school, or community)

Name: Preferred telephone Nos.:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Contact person: Title:

Email address:

Instructions for Completing Your Project Proposal

What Is Required

A Venturing Summit Award service project must provide a valuable service that meets a need, and it must represent a significant personal growth experience through some combination of its scope and complexity, leadership of others, or a connection to a future personal goal related to your education, career, or other interest. However, the impact of the service involved in a project—the extent to which your project makes a meaningful difference—is the most important consideration.

Summit Service Project Focus Areas: Service, Scope and Complexity, Leadership, Personal Goal Connection

In determining if your project is acceptable; the following four focus areas will be considered:

Service—A valuable action, deed, or effort carried out to meet a need

Scope and complexity—The scale of the project; the level of effort and planning involved

Leadership—Leading others toward a shared vision

Personal goal connection—Making the most of the experience, including what is important to you

Project Description

Give a brief description of your project and explain why you chose it.

Focus Area: Service

Explain how your project will provide a valuable or significant impact.

Explain the need that your service project addresses.

Focus Area: Scope and Complexity

Describe what plans or direction the beneficiary will provide for you. Explain what you, individually, must plan before you can begin work, and how long you think it will take to finish your planning.

What kind of resources will be required to complete your project? This can include materials, supplies, equipment, people, and so forth. Just give your preliminary thoughts; you do not need a detailed list.

Will you be doing any fundraising or obtaining donations of money, materials, or services? If so, summarize what you propose to do. Note if you think you will need to submit a fundraising application as your planning progresses.

What sort of safety issues must you consider? See the Guide to Safe Scouting and the Sweet Sixteen of BSA Safety.

Focus Area: Leadership

Will your project require leadership of others?

Approximately how many people will you lead?

What different kinds of tasks will they perform?

How will you organize and train those who will assist you?

Describe the different kinds of people you will be leading. Are they older, younger, friends, family, skilled, unskilled? What different leadership styles do you think you will need to use?

Will you delegate leadership authority to others such as a team or group leaders? How will they assist?

Focus Area: Personal Goal Connection

Does your project connect with a future personal goal related to your education, a career, or other interest?

What is the future personal goal to which your project is connected?

Explain how the project will help you achieve your goal.

Approvals

Designated Venturer Representative

Printed name Signature Date

Crew Advisor

Printed name Signature Date

Venturing Summit Award Service Project Fundraising Application

Summit Award Candidate Name: Preferred telephone Nos.:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Email address: Crew No.

District name: Council name:

Project Beneficiary Name: Preferred telephone Nos.:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Email address:

Project Beneficiary Representative Name: Preferred telephone Nos.:

Address: City: State: Zip:

Email address:

Describe how funds will be raised or donations of materials or services sought:

Proposed date the service project will begin:

Proposed dates for the fundraising efforts:

How much money do you expect to raise?:

If people or companies will be asked for donations of money, materials, supplies, or tools, how will this be done and who will do it?

Are any contracts to be signed? If so, by whom?

Contract details:

Approvals

Beneficiary Representative Signature Date

Crew Advisor Signature Date

Authorized Council Approval Signature Date

Venturing Summit Award Service Project Report

Venturing Summit Award candidate’s full legal name

Venturing Summit Award service project name

Project start date Project completion date

Project Overview

Date project proposal approved: Project completion date:

Please provide a brief description of your project.

Observations

What went well?

What was challenging?

Changes

Many projects require changes from the proposal. What significant changes did you make? Why? (Be brief.)

Summit Project Focus Area Review

Focus Area: Service

Explain the need that your project met.

Explain the impact of your project. What has been its effect? What makes the service you provided valuable?

Focus Area: Scope and Complexity

Describe the planning that went into your project. Include any research you conducted, consulting you did with others, action steps outlined, how long it took to plan, and so forth.

What was involved in carrying out your project? How long did it take to carry out, and how did you handle complexities?

What did you learn about planning and carrying out a project?

Focus Area: Leadership

Explain how you provided leadership. Include the number of people you led, and tell a little about them.

What were the most challenging and rewarding aspects of being the project leader?

What did you learn from the leadership experience?

Focus Area: Personal Goal Connection

What is the future personal goal to which your project is connected?

Is this the same goal as stated in your proposal?

Change is permissible, but please explain why.

How did your project bring you closer to meeting your future personal goal? Be specific.

Fundraising

Describe your efforts to raise funds or obtain donations of materials or services.

How much did you collect? How much were your expenses?

If your expenses exceeded funds collected, explain why this happened and how the expenses were covered.

Leftover funds go to the beneficiary. If the beneficiary cannot accept the funds, to which charity will it go?

Name of charity:

How were the donors thanked?

Photos and Other Documentation

If you have them, attach photos taken before, during, and after project completion. You may also physically attach letters, maps, handouts, printed materials, or similar items. Please list your attachments below.

Follow-Up

Entering Service Project Data

Be sure to include yourself and the time you spent on planning.

Candidate’s Promise

On my honor, I planned and conducted my project as reported here.

Printed name Signature Date

Completion Approvals

I have provided a letter or other statement that describes the project and its impact (strongly encouraged, but optional).

Yes No