• If you haven't done so already...please confirm your COS Account:
  • Find and open the email asking you to confirm your new COS email account and click the link inside. If you cannot find the confirmation email, please use the link directly below with instructions to resend it. You must NOT be logged into the COS website to use this link: Confirm Your COS Account .
    Remember the confirmation email MAY be in spam or junk.
• If you haven't done so already...please review and esign the Volunteer Agreement sent to your email.
  • Find the email, remember if you don't see it in your inbox, please check spam.
  • Open the link inside to review the Volunteer Agreeement, follow the instructions to esign if you agree to the terms
  • If you are unable to locate the email, go to Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement and follow the instructions.
• If you haven't done so already...your next housekeeping task will be to review and e-sign the FUT Training Manual. The link to this manual has been emailed to you...but in case you can't find it...click on the button below...to read and esign.
  

After completing your review of the Training Manual you will be asked to e-sign the last page and email it to Ginny Rapini, grapini@cosaction.com. Please copy the CO State Director Laura Neimeister, laura.neimeister@cosaction.com and also, cc the person who is processing your FUT application.

• Once housekeeping has been completed follow Steps 1-3 below to complete your pre-assignment training and post assignment training.

STEP 1: Initial COS University Training

If you haven't taken these courses yet, you're a beginner but it won't take long to complete. If you have completed these courses...move onto Step 2

These four general courses take a combined three hours. They are view-only experiences so just watch, listen and take notes if that helps you remember. You can always go back and re-watch any courses you've taken to sharpen your memory about Article V requirements and anything else.

COS 100 Introduction to Convention of States (44 minutes) 

COS 200 Responding to Opposition (27 minutes)

VOL 100 Introduction to Volunteering (57 minutes)

GOV 100 Constitutional Literacy (45 minutes)

Step 2: Setting up your profile and technology

• List of COS Acronyms you may find helpful

• Check your profile (My Profile in the drop down menu under your profile logo on the COS website) and make sure you are opted in to receive emails blasts. If you are not...

  • Scroll down on your profile page and select the box to the left of "Receive Emails"
  • While NOT Logged into the cos website go to https://conventionofstates.com/email-subscribe
  • Follow the instructions to confirm your email blast opt in.

• Download the COS Action App to your smart phone

       

• • This is a free app which you will find wherever you get apps for your phone, just search on COSAction.
  • FOR "NEWER" ANDROID PHONES ONLY:
    • If you see an error message indicating "this app is not available for your device" please download and follow instructions at: https://conventionofstates.com/installing-the-android-cosaction-app

• THANK YOU...YOU ARE READY FOR ASSIGNMENT!

  • Contact your assigned trainer or the State Grassroots Coordinator, to make move you into the FollowUp Team member (FUT member) role. This assignment must be made before you will have access to STEP 3.

Step 3: Post Assignment and State Specific Training

Now it's time to take your FUT Courses:

FUT 100 Welcoming New Supporters (36 minutes)

COS 300 Convention of States Culture (57 minutes)

LG 100 COS Legal Training for our non profit/non partisan organization (22 minutes)

This training does not need to be done all at once. If you feel overwhelmed by this information, break it up and do one or two sections at a time.

If you need help with working through any of the sections, contact your District Captain or the State Grassroots Coordinator. 

Access Citizen Builder on the COS website by signing in and then hitting your profile picture and hitting the Dashboard button. You will have access to Citizen Builder once you have been fully vetted and onboarded as an FUT.

• Finding Citizen Builder and the Followup Tool
  • NOTE: In the above training use the Colorado specific email template "CO-CO Welcome" rather than the suggested national email template "US-US-National Thank You"
• Watch Introduction to Citizen Builder

You can run through your No Volunteer Interest follow Ups first, since they are simpler to process and complete. Followups with Volunteer Interest will require further contacts and will move to your "in progress" queue. If no response to multiple attempts at contact via email/phone/text...then complete within a two week time period.

You will be working with your District and Regional Captain as well as our State Grassroots Coordinator. They also do followups and you will be a supportive team player to help process petition signers and potential volunteers. 

If you are able to get a response from one of your Follow Ups saying that they're interested in volunteering, be sure to escalate their profile to their DC, RC or SGC.

Introduction to the COS Action App for Android or iPhone:

Log your work in the COS Action App Action Reports. Keeping record of your work will help keep you organized and allow for review of past work.

Tutorial: Submit Action Reports through the COS Phone App:

Tutorial: Submit Action Reports through the COS Website:

Weekly Responsibilities as a Follow Up Team Member

You should be logging on to Citizen Builder and checking the Follow Up Tool several times a week. Make it a habit to check FUTs 4 times a week and complete your followups in a timely manner. This will be the key to a successful grassroots effort that prevents overflow and protects Patriots, who admirably sign up, from being neglected.

Check your email account regularly. This is the default email account that you signed up with as a volunteer and is tied to your @cosaction.com address. Also, check your junk/phishing folder as regularly as you check your inbox. You will avoid missing follow up replies if you always do this.

If you want to keep up with statewide information, and even better, get to know the volunteers in your state and the state leaders, you are encouraged to attend our Statewide Meeting every first and third Monday of each month. Reach out to the State Grassroots Coordinator to attend these online meetings.

COS uses Slack to easily communicate and pass on information to Team Members. Read the tutorial on how to download Slack and watch the video:

Slack Tutorial on Use and Download on Android/IOS/Desktop

You learned how to do it all - now put it to action!

Feel free to return to this training to refresh your memory and access resource links.