Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council, Boy Scouts of America
Prepared. For Life.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The popular culture and the current community environment present challenges, and opportunities, for all children today. Youth and their families are confronted daily with the impact of media overstimulation, community and individual crime, the attraction of drug and alcohol use, and in some cases the reality of abuse. Children who are at risk because of transportation barriers, low family income, language limitations, or other restrictive factors often have few positive influences on their young lives and few positive examples of success. Thus, they have too many chances to fail while having too few opportunities to succeed, much less excel. Scouting provides opportunities for youth to excel. They can develop and practice what it means to have good character, fitness, citizenship, and leadership skills.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Cub Scouts, BSA
Cub Scouting is fun for the whole family. In Scouting, boys and girls start with their best right now selves and grow into their very best future selves. It’s fun, hands-on learning and achievement that puts kids in the middle of the action and prepares them for today – and for life. Boys and Girls aged 5-10 participate in the Cub Scouting program.
Venturing
Young men and woman ages 14-21.
Venturing A program for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years of age to provide positive experiences through exciting and meaningful activities that help youth pursue their special interests, grow, develop leadership skills, and become good citizens.
Scouting
For the first time in its 100+ year history, the iconic program of the Boy Scouts of America is open to both young men and young women.
Scouts BSA is a year-round program for boys and girls in fifth grade through high school that provides fun, adventure, learning, challenge, and responsibility to help them become the best version of themselves.
Sea Scouts
For over 100 years Sea Scouting has promoted better citizenship and improved members’ boating skills through instruction and practice in water safety, boating skills, outdoor, social, service experiences, and knowledge of our maritime heritage.
Sea Scout units–called ships–are established all across the country on oceans, bays, rivers, and lakes. They provide limitless opportunities and exciting challenges that you won’t find anywhere else. Sea Scouts is a place to grow and learn, find adventure, and build long lasting friendships.
Sea Scouts receive training in seamanship and leadership. From ship meetings, long cruises, a USCG sponsored Safety at Sea, to SEAL (Sea Scout Experience Advanced Leadership) training you will be learning every step of the way whether you realize it or not.
STEM Scouts
Using hands-on lab-based activities, STEM Scouts encourages young minds’ natural curiosity and helps build interest in the STEM-related careers that are so crucial to our future economy.
STEM Scouts who complete modules receive electronic badges to mark their success. After completing several modules, Scouts can pursue deeper understanding of topics through Individual Learning Modules (ILM) and receive Achievement Awards for their work. Middle and high school students have the opportunity to publish their work in a peer-reviewed journal.
Exploring
Exploring provides exciting activities and mentorship for youth looking to discover their future. Whether you’re a local organization looking to strengthen the community or a young person wanting to uncover the possibilities of your future, Exploring is a great place to start.
Where we work
Awards
Centennial Quality Council 2008
National Council, Boy Scouts of America
External reviews

Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of children served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Age groups, Family relationships
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This represents the number of children and youth registered across all Scouting programs each year.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Family relationships
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Registered adult volunteers actively mentoring youth through the program. All adult volunteers must regularly renew their youth protection training as well.
Number of service hours to the community
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This represents reported service hours to the others in the community, through pack and troop efforts, Eagle projects, and council coordinated service such as Scouting for Food.
Rank advancements earned by youth
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Everything done to earn ranks is designed to educate or to otherwise expand horizons. Members learn and develop according to a standard. Experiential learning is the key: Learning comes from doing.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law
A Scout is:
Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Kind
Obedient
Cheerful
Thrifty
Brave
Clean
Reverent
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We are a volunteer driven organization from top to bottom. All of our units are led by volunteers, our service area committees that determine how to better serve our youth and expand our engagement with community charter organization partners are led by volunteers, and our executive board is led by volunteers. We have a deep connection to our communities through formal partnership with organizations that host our program meetings. These partner organizations are encouraged to reflect the core values and interests of the community and to help expand our impact.
Our volunteer board leadership has developed, and regularly reviews, a council Game Plan. This Game Plan highlights focal points that are foundational for delivering a relevant, high quality, engaging program for the families we serve.
Goals are built around volunteer adult leadership, financial growth, membership growth, and responsible property management. The strategies include:
Adult Leadership:
• Create and implement a plan for increased diversity;
• engage the alumni committee to connect with community leaders;
• effectively track leader training
• ensure that more volunteer leaders have the training they need.
Financial Growth:
• Launch a major gifts campaign for operating and endowment funds;
• evaluate special events to make sure that they’re increasing revenue and expanding audiences;
• create a gift-in-kind campaign to provide budget relieving consumables for council operations;
• transition kick-off events for 1st quarter fundraiser to prior quarter.
Membership Growth:
• Meet with packs that serve 70 or more youth, to see if they could more effectively serve youth as two packs;
• ensure that individual families have a clear path to continue with the program, even if their troop disbands;
• effectively reach out to community organizations with similar goals, and share opportunities to serve the community together;
• Develop and implement a board-approved plan to increase attendance at Cub Scout summer camps; pilot on-site outreach program code-named “Big Box”
Properties:
• Produce and review a master property plan for each property, including camp properties and council offices;
• Determine timeline and viability of county road access at Camp Pico Blanco;
• Ensure that we know what resources are needed to maintain properties, and efficiently deploy them;
• Establish a Service Center Team to execute on replacement and needs assessment
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have 24 staff members and over 5,000 volunteers who help make Scouting thrive. They meet at monthly volunteer "Service Area" Committee and Roundtable meetings where chairs and subcommittees focus on improving membership, training, fundraising and activities, and advancement/recognition to improve our overall program and assess how to better serve our youth.
Our board is vibrant, and gradually growing more diverse as our leadership intentionally reaches out to under-represented constituencies. It includes community leaders and people with the expertise to lead discussions and actions ranging from delivering great programs to youth, to managing properties.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Through a fiscally conservative strategy and enthusiastic fundraising goals, the Council has been able to grow its assets to ensure long-term financial stability for the program. In order to ensure membership growth over the long term the Council continues to pursue diversity in our Executive Board, our committees, and our membership to accurately reflect and represent our community and region.
In 2019, the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council had a tremendous local impact:
• 13,472 active youth
• 5,045 adult volunteers
• Scouts provided 153,103 service hours to the larger community, through Eagle Scout projects, Scouting for Food, and more.
• Volunteer leaders gave an estimated 252,259 service hours while leading youth in the program.
• 439 Scouts earned the Eagle rank, an all-time high.
• 23,397 advancements and merit badges earned by Scouts
We continue to grow and modernize our programs, introducing initiatives that focus on STEM and Exploring (workforce development).
We recently completed a capital campaign that resulted in a new, fully weatherized dining hall at Camp Hi-Sierra, and a Phase II campaign that provided the resources to build new staff housing.
As we prepare for our future, the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council is committed to providing greater opportunities for youth to participate in Scouting, regardless of their surroundings, economic situation, religion, race or ethnic background as well as cultivating partnerships with communities, organizations, businesses, foundations, and individuals.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council, Boy Scouts of America
Board of directorsas of 07/25/2023
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Mark Lazzarini
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Board leadership practices
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Ethics and transparency
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Board composition
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Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.