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Hit the “Easy Button” for Pack & Den Meetings
New, Incredibly Easy-to-Use Annual Plan for Cub Scout Packs & Dens Scouting America has just released what many Pack and Den Leaders have desperately needed: role-based best practices guides and plug-and-play annual plans that makes running a Pack or Den easier to...
The 10 Essentials to Scout Unit Success
First, we want to thank you for taking time out of your evening to invest in your Scout unit and the youth you serve! Whether you're a Cub Scout pack, Scouts BSA troop, Venturing crew, or Sea Scout ship, you're at this post because you want your unit to thrive....
How You Can Add Fishing Fun to Your Scout Program
It's Easy to Add Fishing to Your Scouting Program And our Angling Committee is Here to Help Get your Scouts, families and friends "hooked on Scouting" by getting them "hooked on fishing." On the Scouting Expedition Podcast, we interviewed our Angling Committee's Russ...
AI How-To’s for Scout Units
Learn from One of Our Top-Performing Units How AI Can Help Your Scout Unit Too Ryan Tashma from Pack 424/Troop 562 show us how you can leverage the power of AI for: meeting & event planning e-mail communications training & program activities social media...
Wildfire Updates
Grasshopper Fire Update Aug 5th Ash has been falling over Baldwin for days but the Grasshopper Fire poses no more of a threat now than it has since last Friday. Winds have changed back and forth from east and west but nothing has moved north. There has been only one...
How We’ll Grow to 10,000 Scouts
What will take to grow Cascade Pacific Council from 6,000 to 10,000 Scouts by 2030? In this episode we chat with Rick Thomas, Vice President of Membership, and Dolly Olsen, Assistant Council Commissioner for Membership, to break down CPC's membership strategy for 2026...
How to Easily Promote Your Scout Unit this Easter
An Easter Egg Hunt is an "Eggs-elent" way to Promote Scouting! Cub Scout Pack 510 had a brilliant idea: why not promote their Scouts using the City of Gladstone's Easter Egg Hunt! Here's how they did it: Built a relationship with the host community center and the...
The People Behind the Pinewood Derby Kits
The Pinewood Derby is a huge event for Cub Scouts, but did you know that it is also just as big an event for the people who put the kits together? Every year, Cub Scouts and their families support adults with disabilities by purchasing their official Pinewood Derby...
Strategic Plan Overview Podcast with the CPC Key 3
Our Key 3 (Board Chair Andrew Danner, Council Commissioner Kathleen Jordan and Scout Executive Gary Carroll) is on the CPC Scouting Expedition Podcast to give you an overview of the Cascade Pacific Council's Strategic Plan, which was recently approved by our Board of...
Learn all about Family Scouts BSA Troops
Scouting America troops across the nation, and here in the CPC, participated in a family troop pilot (called a “combined troop” during the pilot) between September 2024 and July 2025. These placed Scouts who were boys and girls in Scouts BSA into a single troop under...