H. Roe Bartle Training Award

The Boy Scouts of America was the founding nonprofit partner of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance

About H. Roe Bartle

H. Roe Bartle SpeakingH. Roe Bartle was a national figure with a reputation as a businessman, philanthropist, politician, and nonprofit executive. Bartle became the Scout Executive for the Kansas City Area Council and served in that role for 27 years until his retirement in 1955. For nearly 30 years, Bartle led the Kansas City Area Council, now the Heart of America Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The H. Roe Bartle Training Award is named after Bartle for his visionary leadership to develop an infrastructure to create a consistent pool of qualified, college-educated candidates to join the professional ranks of the Boy Scouts of America in 1948.

A mission 70 years in the making

What is the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (formerly American Humanics)?

Founded in 1948 by Kansas City Area Council, BSA Scout Executive, H. Roe Bartle, the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (formerly American Humanics) is a national alliance of colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations and professionals dedicated to strengthening the nonprofit sector. The Alliance administers the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential, the only nationally recognized credential in nonprofit management that provides learning and real world experience. Our program means you will perform better in your job and be seven times (7x) more likely to be a leader where you work.

Changing the world together

Boy Scouts of America and Alliance Partnership

Becoming a CNP through the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance is the most direct route to preparing for and having a successful career as a professional Scouter with the Boy Scouts of America! The curriculum is specifically designed to give students a well-rounded education in nonprofit leadership and management with the intent of becoming employed in one of the national nonprofit partners, such as the Boy Scouts of America. Earn your CNP today!

Note: All American Humanics certified alums have been grandfathered in as CNP’s with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.

Making a difference

What is the H. Roe Bartle Training Award?

This award recognizes those volunteer and professional Scouters who have earned the CNP and applied that training significantly to their volunteer or professional work with the Boy Scouts of America.

The award aims to promote the career path of professional Scouting and recognize the need for professional preparation in nonprofit organization management and leadership via higher education. It also promotes the Alliance to Scouting’s youth to increase enrollment in affiliated campus programs, which in turn would enlarge the pool of CNP’s to fill vacancies as District Executives.

Finally, the award amplifies the Alliance to Scouting’s adult volunteers who might consider a mid-career career change from the private or public sectors to professional Scouting (i.e., sector-switching) on their own volition or out of necessity, because of the economy and loss of employment, which in turn would also enlarge the pool of Alliance certified alumni to fill vacancies as District Executives through post-baccalaureate certification processes.

H. Roe Bartle Award

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance H. Roe Bartle Training Award is one of a number of paths to the BSA Community Organization Award. Awardees are entitled to wear the gold and purple square knot on their BSA Scouter’s uniform. A certificate and device (small Nonprofit Leadership Alliance logo pin) will be awarded by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance upon completion of the award. The device should be pinned in the center of the BSA Community Organization Award square knot. The award recipient will be responsible for taking their Nonprofit Leadership Alliance H. Roe Bartle Training Award Certificate to their local Scout Shop as evidence, so that they may purchase the BSA Community Organization square knot award.

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance H. Roe Bartle Training Award can be presented simultaneously with the CNP certification during or near commencement exercises at a student’s college or university; or at the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Management/Leadership Institute (AMI); or at an appropriate Scouting venue.

To apply for the award, please contact the Alliance, CNPcredential@nla1.org.

Requirements

Volunteer Scouters

The H. Roe Bartle Training Award will be granted to registered volunteer Scouters who have been certified as a CNP and who have completed the following five requirements:

  • Serve for at least one year in one of the following unit, district, or council level capacities as an active, registered volunteer Scouter, paraprofessional, or ScoutReach Program Aide: Chartered Organizational Representative (COR); District Committee Member; District or Council Member-at-Large; Unit Commissioner

  • Formal, academic intern at the District, Council, Regional, or National level while earning the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance certification.Note: Scouting experience should be comprehensively noted on the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance transcript via the online profile system.

  • The Scouter must earn at least one of the following awards while simultaneously or after (but not before) earning the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance CNP certification:Scouter’s Key;Scouters’ Training Award;Den Leader Training Award; Commissioner Arrowhead Award; William D. Boyce New Unit Organizer Award; Speakers Bank Award (discontinued); Alumni Award; Wood Badge. Note: These requirements may be met while the Scouter is actively earning CNP certification. However, some CNP (or AH certificate) certified alumni may have no Scouting experience until their children join the BSA. At that point, the CNP certified alum would need to serve in one of the positions described above. The goal is to force the CNP to transfer the training from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance curriculum to the BSA program for at least 1 year before being awarded the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance H. Roe Bartle Training Award.

  • The Scouter must also meet with the local council Scout Executive, regional staff member, or National Council staff member to discuss how the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance competencies fit into the BSA, as well as to discuss career opportunities in professional Scouting.

  • The Scouter must give a formal presentation to high school and college-aged Scouts and/or Venturers (e.g., camp staff, Venturing Crew, OA members, NOAC, OA Section Conclave, OA Lodge Fellowships, NESA events, National Camp School, high adventure base staff) regarding college preparatory training through the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and local campus partners. If at all possible, the most local Campus/Executive Director(s) of the Alliance campus partners should attend your presentation.

Requirements

Professional Scouters

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance H. Roe Bartle Training Award will be awarded to registered professional Scouters who have been certified as a Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (formerly American Humanics, Inc.) and who have completed the following four requirements:

  • Professional Scouters must successfully serve (as verified by their Council Scout Executive or if at the area, regional, or national levels by their direct supervisor) as a professional Scouter for at least one year after being certified as a CNP by the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance; and successfully complete BSA Professional Development Level (PDL).

  • The professional Scouter must meet with their direct supervisor and discuss ways to partner with the most local Campus/Executive Director(s) of the Alliance campus partners. After meeting with their direct supervisor, the professional Scouter should make significant efforts to partner with the most local Campus/Executive Director(s) of the Alliance campus partners.

  • The Scouter must give a formal presentation to high school and college-aged Scouts and/or Venturers (e.g., camp staff, Venture Crew, OA members, NOAC, OA Section Conclave, OA Lodge Fellowships, NESA events, National Camp School, high adventure base staff) regarding college preparatory training through the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and local campus partners. If at all possible, the most local Campus/Executive Director(s) of the Alliance campus partners should attend your presentation.