District Captain Task-list
As a District Captain (DC) you will proactively reach, teach, and activate other volunteers in your local area —growing grassroots support to reach our mission and goals.
➡️Download this handy guide⬅️ and use it to guide you the first 90-days or so as you become familiar with your role.
In your DC role you will have the following responsibilities:
- Learn CB (Citizen Builder). You may wish to bookmark this Tool Overview page and reference it until you are familiar with Citizen Builder and other tools you'll use to accomplish building the army.
- Contact new arrivals in your District Dashboard to build relationships with local supporters. Log in as close to daily as possible — statistics shows people are more likely to engage if you have contact with them every 2-3 days within the first 30-90 days of connection. Add Notes & Contact Log entries with each contact, then you can reverse search by Last Contact Date in order to find those you haven't contacted in awhile.
- Build relationships with your legislators. Start by watching LL 200 How to Influence Your Legislator. Then, identify your legislators and begin treating them as a new friend. Avoid discussing difference and focus on commonalities and, of course, COSA. Call them, take a sealed-package treat to their office, email/social message them, attend their local town halls, etc.
- Activate some of the new arrivals by guiding them via phone call, email, and text to apply as a volunteer, based on their interest, level of commitment, and skill.
- Onboard new volunteer activist applicants in you Leader Management Tool (LMT), further testing their qualifications via vetting and COSU. Record your process in the Notes and Contact Log. See guides, below, in the Education / Training / Onboarding section. Every role moves at a different pace, so there's no deadline, but a Note or Contact Log entry should be made every 14 days and anyone left without contact for 30 days could be "rejected" due to being "non-responsive with stale followup". The Last Update column for the Open and In Process records in the LMT is color coded for your convenience:
- Green = 1-14 days
- Amber = 15-29 days
- Red = 30+
- Act as support to your district team
- making sure they have all the tools they need to Spread the Word,
- bringing them together, monthly, to encourage bonds (grow your local family), keep them knowledgable and educated, and remind them of our mission and goals — make it a potluck (if your district is very rural, use virtual meetings mixed with in-person to make monthly meetings reasonable), and
- lead them to canvas local events, block-walk neighborhoods, form phone trees, and randomly sharing literature as you seek to reach, teach, and activate others.
- making sure they have all the tools they need to Spread the Word,
- Build relationships with your state and national teams by participating in conference calls at the state and national levels, sharing photos of your events, yourself, and even family in Slack, sharing your event information on the team calendar, etc.
- Encourage your team to accept opportunities to attend events with their state legislators. See the Events section below.
- Encourage your team to participate in telepatriot missions where we help each other achieve local goals throughout our state and in other states.
As a District Captain you will have many tools at your disposal, below is convenient list of tools. Please let us know if you discover any tools missing and would like us to add them.
