"Drive" Eagle Projects

[maricopasem]

Has anybody encountered difficulty getting approval for "drive" type projects (book drive, toy drive, etc.)? My local district has all but said that a boy cannot do that as his project. I'm having a hard time with it, at least in part because BSA still lists a couple of drives as viable examples in the Eagle Packet documentation.

Just curious if anyone else has encountered the same problem.

[Mrw]

We have one who was just approved to put together care packages for soldiers in Iraq.

[Lynda J]

Many times it depends on what type of drive you are talking about. Our district will not approve a toy drive and I have only seen one book drive approved. The reason they simply don't have to do enough management for those. The only book drive I have seen approved was one where the boy was going to take a lot of the books for much younger kids and tape them. Then donate the books to a shelter. They taped about 75 books.

[DadScout]

The only "drive" I've heard that gets frowned upon is a blood drive. While certainly good in cause it just doesn't have the management skills needed. Of recent Eagle projects we've have a clothing drive and a school supplies drive. Both went over quite well.