Welcome to Coalitions Director/Coalitions Team training Part 2! 

1. Learning the Acronyms & Setting up your Technology

• Convention of States uses a lot of Acronyms. Use this Acronym Guide to find the meanings when you run into new ones (Print the Guide)
• Open the email asking you to confirm your new COS email account and click the link inside.
• Download the COS Action App to your phone (iPhone / Android) and sign into it.
  • Watch the App Introduction Video.
• Watch Telepatriot training videos.
  

• National Training Video
• Michigan Training Video
• As a Coalitions Director/Coalitions Team member (CD & CD Team) you have the ability to make telepatriot calls if you want to, but it is not one of your responsibilities.
• Join the Slack Workspace (Michigan COS) via the email invitation that you will receive.
• Introduction to Slack

2. Convention of States University (3 hrs, 15 min)

• COS 300 Convention of States Culture (57 min)
• COS 400 Leadership  & Activism (58 min)
  

3. Your District Numbers, State Representative and State Senator

Before you go any further you will need to discover your Representative, Senator, House District (HD), and Senate District (SD). Use the instructions below to find your legislators and district numbers, and save that information somewhere that you will be able to refer to easily. If you already know all four of these things go ahead and move on to step 4.

• Find your State Representative and House District
• Find your State Senator and Senate District
  

• Print/Download Instructions (text) (text and images)

4. Citizen Builder/Dashboard:

Citizen Builder (also known as Dashboard) is one way you can find and contact volunteers.

• Watch How to Get to Citizen Builder
  

5. Leaders Directory

Leaders Directory is one of your best tools for finding your Coalitions Team, State Leaders, and out-of-state leaders.

• Watch Using State Directory to find State Leaders
  

6. Searching for People and your local volunteer team

The Leaders Directory is awesome, but it won't give you a short and sweet list of all the volunteers and local cos volunteer leaders near you. To find that you will need to go to Dashboard and do a search.

• Watch Searching for People in Dashboard
  

9. Files & Pages

• Watch How to Create Website Pages
  

- If you create a page and want to publish it, reach out to your State Director for assistance.

• Watch How to Create Files

10. Polls

• Watch How to Create Polls

11. Action Reports

Action Reports are a critical part of uniting all our individual efforts into one focused movement. They can be made through the COS Action App or the COS Website. Watch the videos below and save/print the instructions for your future reference.

• Watch Action Reports from the COS Action app
• (COS Action App) Action Report Instructions: Print/Download (text) (text with screenshots)   This still needs to be created
• Watch Action Reports from the COS Website
  • (Website) Action Report Instructions: Print/Download (text) (text and images)
  • Direct Link for submitting New Action Reports

12. Email Blasts

• Watch How to Set Up an Email
• Watch Email Checklist
• Watch Crafting Effective Subject Lines
• Read Best Practices

13. Coalitions Team

Who's who on the Coalitions Team. The titles on this team are rather confusing so here's a basic breakdown of what they mean.

State Coalitions Director: The State CD (CD) is responsible for the development of the entire statewide Coalitions Team covering a number of different coalitions.

Coalitions Coordinators: Coalition Coordinators (CD Team) work to reach their specific organizations/groups.

Note: The Veterans Coalitions Team is separate from the Coalitions Team.

14. Setting Yourself Up for Success

While you now know pretty much everything you need to get started, the following steps will help you be truly prepared to do this job.

• Save your State Director's contact information and expect to reach out often.
  Sarah Santana - sarah.santana@cosaction.com - (760) 481-2406
  
  
• Plan to attend quarterly statewide zoom meetings (see Volunteer Calendar for next meeting date & zoom link).
  
  
• Plan to attend Regional Meetings and get to know your local volunteer team so that you can help them engage with your efforts.
  
  
• Save the COS Michigan Website to your Browser for quick access.

If you have completed all these things then call/text/slack/or email your State Director and let him/her know you are ready for your final zoom training.

• Sarah Santana - (760) 481-2406 - sarah.santana@cosaction.com