Title: MI Regional Captain Resources
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REGIONAL CAPTAIN RESOURCES
Our Mission: Build the largest engaged Army of Self-Governing grassroots Activists.
Our Goal: To inspire A Spiritual and Political Revival in America.
Because if we don't change, any change we bring about won't last.
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Model Language
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Maps
The Convention of States Michigan Team is comprised of 15 Regional Teams. The map below highlights each region geographically by color.
Regional Captain Job Simplified
Weekly do these 5 things 3X (or more). (Video walk through)
1. Check for Applicants (Volunteer Activist & District Captains) in the LMT (How to process an Applicant) (Volunteer Agreement)
2. Check Regional Followups (How to process Followup with Volunteer Interest)
3. Check your Regional Potential Volunteers List for new potential volunteers (How to process Potential Volunteers)
4. Check your cos email
5. Check Slack via app or website
Monthly do these 3 things.
1. Attend State Leadership Meetings
2. Hold a Regional Meeting (In person or virtual) with your Regional Leaders (District Captains, Event Coordinators, Legislative Liaisons, Followup Team Members, Social Media Warriors, State Content Writers, Veterans Coalition Team Members, Videographers, Information Analysts & Coalitions Team Members)
3. Have a coaching call or meeting with each of your DCs individually to formulate a plan for their HD.
3. Touch base with your DCs on off weeks to see if they require support.
4. Call or meet with your Senator and Representative
5. Submit Action Reports regarding your contact with your legislators
For training on Action Reports see DC Training.
4. Discuss goals for your House District with your Regional Captain.
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Regional Captain Responsibilities
- Support & Grow your existing District Captains into strong servant leaders.
- Communicate with DCs weekly.
- Hold a Regional Meeting (once a month)
- Have an individual coaching session by phone/zoom/in person where you make stated goals for each district with the DC. (once a month)
- Check in by phone/text/or email to see if the need any support. (twice a month - on weeks you aren't doing one of the above)
- Serve the volunteers of any district in your region that does not have a DC yet, by fulfilling the responsibilities of a DC (process volunteer applicant's, followups, and calling the assigned volunteers monthly).
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Regional Leaders
REGIONAL LEADERS
Region 1 - HDs 109 & 110
RC
FUT
LL
EC
VCD
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Bruce Finlayson
Michael Grzech
Eric Phillips
Region 2 - HDs 107 & 108
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Bruce Finlayson
Michael Grzech
Eric Phillips
Ronald Munro
Region 3 - HDs 87, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Bruce Finlayson
Michael Grzech
Eric Phillips
Region 4 - HDs 96, 99, 105, 106
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Bruce Finlayson
Michael Grzech
Eric Phillips
Region 5 - HDs 71, 92, 93, 95
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Chet Grant
Ron Arnesen
Dave Myers
Region 6 - 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 94, 97, 98
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Chet Grant
Alyss Kovach
Marilynn Grant & Ron Arnesen
Kelly Oldford
Dave Myers
Region 7 - 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Sarah Santana
Jonathan Palumbo
Brian DeGalan
Region 8 - 73, 74, 75, 76, 77
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Chet Grant
Dianne Bailey & Ron Arnesen
Brian Eakin & Barry Patrick Quinn
Dave Myers
R8 Leaders
Region 9 - HDs 18, 19, 20, 21, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55
Irv Karwick
Dave Myers
R9 Leaders
Region 10 - HDs 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 32
Sarah Santana
Brian DeGalan
R10 Leaders
Region 11 - HDs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 56, 57, 58
Sarah Santana
Brian DeGalan
R11 Leaders
Region 12 - HDs 10, 11, 12, 13, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Chet Grant
Dave Myers
R12 Leaders
Region 13 - HDs 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
RC
FUT
LL
EC
SMW
SCW
SIA
VCD
All Leaders
Sarah Santana
Brian DeGalan
R13 Leaders
Region 14 - HDs 35, 44, 45, 46, 47
Sarah Santana
Brian DeGalan
R14 Leaders
Region 15 - HDs 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34
John Phillips
Marcie Grzywacz
Nancy Chambers
Irv Karwick
Dave Myers
Barb Wioskowski
R15 Leaders
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State & National Leaders
- Michigan State Director
Sarah Santana
(760) 481-2406
sarah.santana@cosaction.com
- State Communications Coordinator
Robin Riddell
(810) 397-7809
robin.riddell@cosaction.com
- State Legislative Liaison
Kurt O'Keefe
(313) 300-1204
kurt.okeefe@cosaction.com
- State Blockwalking Captain
Laurie Sallans
(313) 819-1042
laurie.sallans@cosaction.com
- State Information Analyst
George Moorman
(616) 283-6913
george.moorman@cosaction.com
- Regional Director (RD) - Flyover Region (MI, OH, IN, WI, MN, IA)
Catherine Zemanek
(989) 573-3628
czemanek@cosaction.com
Regional Directors (RD) and Assistant Regional Directors (ARD) are National Leaders that support the grassroots in multiple states through each state's State Leadership Team.
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Regional Captain Weekly Checklist
- Log into Citizen Builder to check the LMT at least three times a week
- Communicate with each DC in your region at least once a week
- Hold monthly regional team meetings
How To Train a New District Captain
Please click HERE to access a document to help guide the process of onboarding a new District Captain to your team.
