Title: Volunteer Activist Training
Original CoS Document (slug): volunteer-activist-training
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Created: 2022-12-06 05:25:57
Updated: 2022-12-16 01:36:58
Published: 2022-12-15 05:00:00
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Volunteer Activist Training
E komo mai to Volunteer Activist training with the Convention of States Action Hawai'i Team!
Our main mission is to build an engaged army of self-governing grassroots activists. It's important that all our volunteers develop the skills and build the knowledge base needed to hand down to the next generation of Americans so they do not ever find themselves in the dangerous situation of losing their liberties as we are experiencing today. Going to convention is one of our huge goals as well as inspiring both a political and spiritual awakening.
1. Convention of States University
These five video courses take five hours (total) to complete and will give you a great foundation in all things COS. To access these courses login to COS University using the same email and password you made for this website.
| * VOL 100 Introduction to Volunteering * COS 100 Introduction to Convention of States * COS 200 Responding to Opposition * COS 300 Convention of States Culture * GOV 100 Constitutional Literacy |
2. 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 link 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.
3. 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) * Download and install the COS Action App to your phone - Pocket Tool for Grassroots Activists! * Sign up to be a TelePatriot - TelePatriot Volunteer Checklist. Watch How to use TelePatriot. * Download and install Slack to your phone, tablet or desktop (iPhone / Android / Windows or Mac), watch Introduction to Slack. Join the COS Hawai'i Workspaces via the email invitations that you will receive. |
4. Submitting Action Reports
An Action Report is a report that can be made through the Convention of States website or COS Action app to let the State and National Team know the latest information gleaned by our grassroots and what we are up to. This helps us to know which legislators are in favor, and which could use a bit more attention. It also lets us know where we have a lot of volunteer activity that we can try to support, vs where we really need to reach out more.
Watch the videos below and save/print the instructions for your future reference.
| * Watch Action Reports from the COS Action app * Watch Action Reports from the COS Website * Action Report Instructions: Download & Print * Direct Link for submitting New Action Reports |
5. Join the Weekly DC/VOL Training webinar at 9pm EST. Register Here. Watch past webinars here.
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