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EVENT COORDINATOR TRAINING - PART 2

 

Welcome to Event Coordinator training Part 2! 

1. Learning the Acronyms & Setting up your Technology

2. Convention of States University (2 hrs)

The COS 300 course will give you a more in-depth picture of how the convention of states team is put together while the COS 400 will give you some specific event related training.

 

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.

4. Citizen Builder: Searching for People & Sending Email Blasts

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

5. Email Blasts

If you want to contact all the volunteers in your region or alert all the local signers of an event you have coming up, the simplest answer is often an email blast.

 

6. Submitting 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.

 

 

7. How to Get Started Planning an Event

The first thing you need to do is start attending your monthly Regional Team meetings so that you can connect with other state leaders in your region. (See our regional maps)

If you have ideas for events this is a fantastic venue to bring them up and brainstorm with your regional team. If you aren't sure what to do ask your local team for ideas.


Some options are:

  • Gun Shows (best when attended Oct-April)
  • Fairs (most often Spring-Fall)
  • Festivals (most often Spring-Fall)
  • Parades (Good option around national holidays)
  • Car Shows
  • Letter Writing Parties (Hosted indoors at any time of year in a small venue or home)
  • Convention of States information meeting (COS presentation followed by a Q&A. You could set up a location for another leader to present, or set it up and present yourself)

 

8. You have an Idea, Now What?

  1. Discuss it with your Regional Captain. (If it involves any political entities or groups, run it by your State Director as well.)

  2. Submit the MI Event Request Form (This will request State Director approval, PR Coverage for the event, and the creation of a calendar entry. If your event requires volunteers you may want to include a SignUpGenius Link on this form.)

  3. Create a SignUpGenius signup sheet. (This step applies if your event requires volunteer support and you want a signup sheet included on the volunteer calendar.)

    - Video: Creating COS Volunteer Signups with Signup Genius - Getting Started
    - Optional Video: How to Create a Sign Up on SignUpGenius - A Tutorial
    -     SignUpGenius Website

  4. After you get State Director Approval, Submit an Event Payment Request Form to National. Cc your State Director on this email (sarah.santana@cosaction.com)
    *This step only applies if your event requires financial support from National.*
    - Video: Event Forms Tutorials
    - Video: Mechanics to Submitting the Event Payment Request Form
    - Form: Event Payment Request Form

  5. Submit Registration to the event venue and followup until you know everything is set.

  6. Gather supplies and Volunteers

  7. Do Event

  8. Submit Post Event (Only applies for events that received funding.)
    - Video: Event Forms Tutorials
    - Form: Post Event Questionnaire

  9. Great Job! Take a short breather then start dreaming about your next event.

9. 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.

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

Click here to get involved!

Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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