The 2017 action plan of the National Eagle Scout Association - National Capital Area outlines goals and initiatives to support Eagle Scouts in the region. The plan establishes eight committees focused on areas such as career navigation, leadership recognition, and environmental conservation. Each committee identifies objectives and initial steps to engage Eagles through online networks, events, and volunteer projects. The plan provides contact information for committee chairs and outlines next steps to develop the organization.

1. National Eagle Scout Association
National Capital Area Council
2017 Action Plan
Update: April 3, 2017
Dr. David Paschane, Chairman (Volunteer)
CEO, Aplin LLC
202-256-5763
David.Paschane@AplinPartners.com

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About NESA-DC
NESA-DC is a Committee of the National Capital Area Council (NCAC) of the Boy Scouts of America,
and an affiliate chapter of the National Eagle Scouts Association (NESA).
The NESA-DC mission is to amplify the path of Eagle Scouts, in their careers and communities, thus
increase their ability to contribute to the experience of scouts and the national reputation of
Scouting.
NESA-DC Context
NESA-DC recognizes that Scouting is a robust curriculum that offers experienced-based learning in
many technical and life-skill subjects. The curriculum is carefully vetted to ensure significant lifelong
value, and reinforced by principles of integrity and persistence. The experiences are structured
locally, and reflect the communities in which scouts choose to engage and develop their leadership
skills.
Scouting emphasizes an individual taking responsibility to improve themselves, their community, and
the environment. Annually, 4% to 6% of boy scouts achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. The
achievement represents a sustained commitment to diverse learning, personal development,
community service, and applied leadership. The rank of Eagle is achieved before a boy turns 18 years
old, but the foundation of the experience lasts a lifetime.
In the DC region, about 1,500 boy scouts obtain the rank of Eagle each year. Including Eagles who
have made the national capital region their home, the estimated count of Eagles is 15,000. Given the
large count of Eagles, and their diverse professional backgrounds, this represents an opportunity to
build a strong alumni association that is a powerful resource for Scouting and the Nation.
NESA-DC Membership
Currently, membership in NESA-DC requires that you are an
Eagle Scout, in good standing with Scouting principles, and
live in the region of the NCAC.
NCAC is large and includes counties in Maryland and Virginia,
as well as the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In total, the Council has twenty-one districts and over 50,000
boy scouts. See the interactive map.
NESA-DC is an affiliate of NESA, which coordinates a set of
awards, scholarships, initiatives, and other actions in support
of the BSA.

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NESA-DC Goals
Our goals allow us to focus on practical actions that can have multiple effects within our mission.
1. Career Navigation – assist young Eagles in organizing their choices and online profiles for
marketability, networking, and mentoring.
2. Career Advancement – facilitate opportunities for Eagles to promote their career goals, develop
business opportunities, and assist each other during career transitions.
3. Scouting Leadership – monitor the feedback of Eagle who are volunteering in Scouting, and
pinpoint where we can help support their leadership.
4. Philanthropy Leadership – organize fundraising events and products in support of purchasing of
Eagle Kits and subsidizing camp leader positions.
5. Leadership Recognition – promote the public image of Scouting by recognizing notable Eagles
with prestigious awards and award ceremonies.
6. Environmental Conservation – work with partners to analyze and prioritize regional conservation
projects that scouts can lead or join.
7. Youth Education – work with regional partners to support testing of educational projects and
curriculum that are complementary to Scouting.
8. Risk Reduction – work with partners to understand the risk-reduction benefits of Scouting, and
organize Eagles as sponsors, such as scouts of wounded warriors.

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NESA-DC Committee Organization
The NESA-DC Committee Chairman and the Executive Committee will help organize Eagles who will
volunteer to lead the following eight committees, which correspond to our eight goals:
Career Navigation Committee
Career Advancement Committee
Scouting Leadership Committee
Philanthropy Leadership Committee
Leadership Recognition Committee
Environmental Conservation Committee
Youth Education Committee
Risk Reduction Committee
Due to the large geographic territory of the Council, the committees will operate through locations
that are under the discretion of the committee chairmen.
The NESA-DC Executive Committee, which will meet telephonically once a quarter. Substantive
operations and planning matters, between the committee chairmen and the NESA-DC Chairman will
be arranged, as needed.
The current NESA-DC Chairman is Dr. David Paschane
Phone: 202-256-5763
Email: David.Paschane@AplinPartners.com
Office: 10700 Harper Ave., Suite 1, Silver Spring, MD 20901
The NESA-DC business page in on LinkedIn, to foster rapid connectivity between professional profiles,
and support the goals of the Career Navigation and Career Advancement committees:
https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/11039308
Chairman of committees can list their service on their LinkedIn profile, under experience, with the
company name as the NESA-DC business page, National Eagle Scout Association - National Capital
Region. See the example below:

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A priority goal of NESA-DC is to enable Eagles to obtain an official, permanent, market-vetted,
digitally-hosted certificate for the achievement of the Eagle award, which can be displayed on their
LinkedIn profile.
Aplin Labs will provide an independent analysis of the market value of the applied education
represented by the award, thus verifying its meaning to potential non-Scouting viewers and analysts.
Aplin Labs will also provide the permanent hosting and linking services that are required to attach
and display the certificate within the LinkedIn profile. The costs will be significantly lower than
commercial providers of LinkedIn certificates, and donated to new Eagles in the NCAC.
The digital certificate will provide several benefits:
1. Independent qualification of a set of marketable skills and experiences
2. Verification of foundational learning to employers and business associates
3. Opportunity for coordinators to identify Eagles through online search engines
4. Opportunity for Eagles to find other Eagles for networking and mentoring
5. A model for encouraging and recognizing adult learning, volunteering, and philanthropy

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NESA-DC Objectives and Status
Each committee will pursue one feasible initiative to achieve an objective within its goal. As many of
the volunteer leaders are new to NESA-DC, the 2017 objectives are narrowly focused.
Career Navigation Committee
Chairman: Andrew McCoy
Committee Members: Christian Hoehner
Goal: To assist young Eagles in organizing their choices and online profiles for marketability,
networking, and mentoring.
Objective: Develop a guide for Eagles to optimize the value of their online profiles, with guidance on
how to network and promote themselves, and seek mentoring from those they wish to know in their
career of interest.
Initiative: Provide a one-day event, Careen Navigation Day, at the NCAC headquarters, where each
Eagle can receive tutoring on amplifying a LinkedIn profile, and start to build their career network
through NESA-DC members.
Status: The one-day event is scheduled for May 13, 2007, at the NCAC building. Volunteers will bring
a laptop to assist with profiles. Aaron Chusid, with NCAC, will provide notices to those who achieved
Eagle in the last 7 years, including messages through local universities and troops.

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Career Advancement Committee
Chairman: Vacant
Committee Members: Alan Balanger (Bethesda Host), Craig Davis (Tysons Host), Drew Eacker (DC
Host), Sven Rundman (Fredericksburg Host), Tejas Patel (Herndon Host)
Goal: To facilitate opportunities for Eagles to promote their career goals, develop business
opportunities, and assist each other during career transitions.
Objective: Create helpful online communications, and regular social events that fit the interests of
locally gathered Eagles, where they can discuss their business and career goals, and seek the
assistance of their fellow Eagles. Create an online directory to make career advancement goals
apparent to NESA-DC members.
Status: NESA-DC has a business page on LinkedIn to facilitate career-oriented engagements, and
reinforce the hosted events. Eagles are hosting five career advancement engagements. We are
seeking volunteer hosts to stand up other events to accommodate interests of Eagles across the large
NCAC geography.
Tysons Lunch
Bethesda Happy Hour

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Scouting Leadership Committee
Chairman: Vacant
Committee Members: Vacant
Goal: To monitor the feedback of Eagle who are volunteering in scouting, and pinpoint where we can
help support their leadership.
Objective: Provide an annual survey for Eagles in the NCAC to provide specific feedback to NESA-DC,
and supplement this information with routine conversations between NESA-DC Eagles and local scout
leaders (e.g., Scoutmasters, District Executives), and use these insights to reinforce the goals of scouts
and new Eagles, and advise NCAC and BSA, as appropriate.
Status: The estimated number of Eagles in the NCAC is 15,000, and nearly 2,500 Eagles are actively
volunteering in scouting roles (17%). NESA-DC is seeking to confirm this indicator, and determine
how it compares to other BSA Councils. A new event was held in Takoma Park, MD to support a local
troop, like a longstanding annual event in Frederick that honors new Eagles and raises funds for local
scouting. In February 2017, NESA-DC designed and distributed an interest survey to 11,526 contacts,
opened by 28% (3,214), and completed by 333 (10%). A notable 70% of respondents indicated that
NESA-DC actions in the past have not been helpful in enabling their volunteer actions in scouting, but
they indicated that the current NESA-DC goals could be helpful to them (54% to 65%). About a third
of respondents indicated an interest in helping NESA-DC in specific areas (35% to 44%), with only 5%
to 7% indicated they were “very interested.”

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Philanthropy Leadership Committee
Chairman: Vacant
Committee Members: Vacant
Goal: To organize fundraising events and products in support of purchasing of Eagle Kits and
subsidizing camp leader positions.
Objective: Organize a convenient and low-cost campaign that encourages Eagles to order Eagle Kits
($25) in honor of other people. The NCAC would host the online purchases, deliver the kits, and send
to the selected honoree (e.g., scoutmaster, parent, etc.) a postcard noting the gift given to a new
Eagle Scout by the buyer. NESA-DC will track the achievements of the campaign to help NESA-DC plan
its philanthropy leadership. Another campaign plan is to sell DC United jackets with the NESA-DC
shoulder patch on them, in support of subsidizing camp leader positions.
Status: Aaron Chusid, with NCAC, will help organize the Eagle Kit campaign logistics with NESA-DC.
The estimated need is 1,500 kits next year. The campaign to raise funds for camp leader positions is
on hold until NESA-DC determines the popularity of Eagles participating in “Scouting Games” at DC
United (May 13 and September 9).

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Leadership Recognition Committee
Chairman: Don Ellison
Committee Members: Vacant
Goal: To promote the public image of scouting by recognizing notable Eagles with prestigious awards
and award ceremonies.
Objective: The committee organizes and raises funds in support of a ceremony to award the NESA
Outstanding Eagle Scout Award (NOESA) to local leaders who have demonstrated outstanding
achievement at the local, state, or regional level. The committee also selects and awards the Glenn
A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award to recognize
valuable service of an exceptional nature by a Scout to a religious institution, a school, community, or
other entity. The committee takes a leading role in other events, such as the presentation of a wreath
at the Abraham Lincoln memorial on the day of his birthday. The committee is also considering plans
for producing a promotional filmof interview excerpts of distinguished Eagles who are active in our
nation’s political affairs.
Status: The annual NOESA award ceremony will be held in Spring of 2017, at the Army-Navy Club,
Washington, DC. The committee is seeking individual and corporate sponsors for the event. The
Adams award will be made at the same event.

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Environmental Conservation Committee
Chairman: William Layden
Committee Members: William Bowerman
Goal: To work with partners to analyze and prioritize regional conservation projects that scouts can
lead or join.
Objective: Build an online, searchable map of the national capital region that displays trails and
watersheds, and places where local partners identify problems with land erosion, water loss, trial
safety, and pollution. Use the map to generate priority analyses for service projects. NESA-DC Eagles
will volunteer and support the promotion of community volunteers in these projects. Scouts looking
to lead service projects in environmental conservation can work with NESA-DC to plan their work.
Status: WilliamBowerman, Chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the
University of Maryland is determining the role that students can play in supporting the development
of the regional map.

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Youth Education Committee
Chairman: Dr. Thomas Acklin
Committee Members: Vacant
Goal: To work with regional partners to support testing of educational projects and curriculum that
are complementary to scouting.
Objective: Analyze the work of regional partners to identify strengths in educational projects, which
are complementary to the scouting curriculum. Eagles will volunteer to help in these projects, as a
means of helping scouts and promoting scouting opportunities for other youth.
Status: NESA-DC has examined Project Future Institute as an example of building confidence in
student’s ability to strengthen how they think about their own learning capacity. David Samuels will
speak to the Tysons event on the benefits of Junior Achievement, a resource that is specified in
learning materials for the American Business merit badge. WilliamBowerman is examining the
opportunities that can be created in a partnership with the International Fellowship of Scouting
Rotarians.

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Risk Reduction Committee
Chairman: Vacant
Committee Members: Marc Moore
Goal: To work with partners to understand the risk-reduction benefits of scouting, and organize
Eagles as sponsors, such as scouts of wounded warriors.
Objective: Work with community service providers, such as Fisher House, to identify where scouts
face lifelong risks due to unexpected events in their respective families. Encourage Eagles to sponsor
these scouts through funding their participation costs, and coordinating meetings with merit badge
counselors and District Executives who can arrange Lone Scout services. The committee will also
examine how it can encourage a sponsor of an in-depth, causal study of risk reduction that is
achieved through Scouting, and through other community interventions. We recognize that risk
reduction in youth is a core benefit of Scouting, and one that can have multiple positive effects on
families, communities, and the nation.
Status: Marc Moore is doing an initial scan of the Fisher House services and how NESA-DC could
coordinate support of scouts. NESA-DC is looking at potential researchers who would be suitable for
studying risk-reduction among scouts.

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NESA-DC Executive Committee
Chairman: David Paschane
Vice Chairman: Mike Gephart
Committee Members: Andrew McCoy (Career Navigation Chairman), Don Ellison (Leadership
Recognition Chairman), Jason Opdyke (At-Large), Matt Roche (At-Large)
Goal: To support the regions’ volunteer Eagles as they support the goals of NESA-DC.
Objective: Research and support leadership in each of the committees. Build robust and convenient
online capabilities, including user-controlled access to contact information, career advancement
items, and the ability to share volunteering opportunities and a dedicated calendar for registration
and notification.
Status: This Action Plan summarizes the research we have completed to date. We are organizing and
testing the contact data for Eagles, which requires volunteer support of data management and
marketing. NESA-DC will need a financial sponsor and volunteers to achieve a robust website.
Important resources for Eagles in the National Capital Region:
National Eagle Scout Association - National Capital Region (LinkedIn Business Page) – follow us
NESA-DC at the BSA National Capital Area Council – Sign up for NESA-DC
National Eagle Scout Association – join to support scholarships
Scouting Alumni Association – update your Scouting record

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Key Contacts
Committees Chairs Emails
NESA-DC Executive Committee
Chairman (Volunteer)
David Paschane David.Paschane@AplinPartners.com
NESA-DC Executive Committee Vice
Chairman (Volunteer)
Mike Gephart michael.gephart@outlook.com
NESA-DC Career Navigation
Committee Chairman (Volunteer)
Andrew McCoy mark.andrew.mccoy@gmail.com
NESA-DC Career Advancement
Committee (Volunteer)
Vacant
NESA-DC Scouting Leadership
Committee (Volunteer)
Vacant
NESA-DC Philanthropy Leadership
Committee (Volunteer)
Vacant
NESA-DC Leadership Recognition
Committee Chairman (Volunteer)
Don Ellison DonaldEEllison@gmail.com
NESA-DC Environmental Conservation
Committee (Volunteer)
WilliamLayden william.layden@gmail.com
NESA-DC Youth Education Committee
(Volunteer)
Dr. Thomas Acklin thomasacklin@yahoo.com
NESA-DC Risk Reduction Committee
(Volunteer)
Vacant
NCAC Staff Advisor Aaron Chusid aaron.chusid@scouting.org
NCAC Scout Executive / CEO Les Baron