Duties and task items for UCRCoA State Directors:

Ensure that UCRCoA is displaying your preferred/best contact information on the State Chapters page [the page you just clicked on for this]. Your Director profile should include your best email address, a 150 pixel high x 100 pixel wide photo, a 75 x 75 pixel or smaller logo, with or without a link provided for that logo, and a very short bio of about 50-75 words. As a state Director or higher, you may also request your free first.last@unitedcivilrights.org POP3/web email address, if you would prefer to use that for all UCRCoA business. Please email any updates in your contact information, photos, logos, and etc., to members@unitedcivilrights.org
Join the official Yahoo Group for your own State, and also request/get moderator privileges for your State's official Yahoo Group. For most of the 50 official state Yahoo Groups, that moderator permissions will usually come from me [Torm Howse]. The link to your official state Yahoo Group is located near the top of the corresponding state "page" when you click your State on the State Chapters page.
Establish and maintain email/phone contact with your fellow state Directors. As a group [i.e., as the "Xxxx Civil Rights Council" Board of Directors], setup a regular and ongoing conference call schedule for your UCRCoA state Board Directors that is convenient and appropriate for estimated needs. For example, during the first few months of full UCRCoA activity, conference calls will likely be needed more often, then reduce in frequency as things are better settled into their various avenues later on. One popular free conference call service is here. You are probably familiar with others, too, as most of us have been on plenty of conference calls using these free services. Yahoo Messenger [like AOL Instant Messenger, "AIM"] offers free computer-to-computer Voice calls, if you have a microphone and speakers at both ends, and can also be used by a group of people on the same call/chat. Another available enhancement for your conference calls [and for other purposes] is screen-sharing, which, like it sounds, allows the screen on one person's computer to be shared on other computers [seen by other people]. With screen-sharing, you can show people what you mean, instead of just talking about it over the phone. Two good options for screen-sharing are GoToMeeting [which also allows actual "takeover" of another person's computer remotely, if you need, and other tools], and a free plug-in for the Yahoo Messenger, called "Unyte Lyte". When using the Yahoo Messenger, choose "Plug-Ins", and find the Unyte Lyte plug-in. At the very least, setup a regular old phone conference call for your Board of Directors asap.
Then, as your state Board decides, divide up responsibilities for: (1) contacting, covering, and guiding your County/City Team Leaders in doing whatever they need to do [including helping Team Leaders get moderator rights for their own local Yahoo Group, so they can keep spam and etc. out of their own county group(s)]; (2) which of you will provide the rotating headlines with links as needed for the chapter news area at the top of the State Chapters "page" for your own State; and, (3) one or more of you [the Directors] to join all of the county/city Yahoo Groups in your own State, in order to forward all UCRCoA communications [and your own state-level messages] onward to the groups of people in each of your own counties, and independent cities, if applicable. There should be at least two of your Directors who join all county/city Yahoo Groups in your State, for dual coverage in case of any sickness, accident, or etc.
Encourage other qualified persons to fill any remaining Director positions on your Board, up to the recommended maximum number of Directors. See if there are any open Board Director positions available in your State, by checking for any corresponding "Urgent" or "Available" 'photos' on your State Chapters "page"... The more your recommended Board size is filled up, the more the needed individual and ongoing tasks are shared out, and the lighter the overall load of any one Director.

Your state's Board will also be the "conduit" or "screening point of contact" for all public requests for pro se or other legal assistance in their own private, individual government cases, forwarding these requesting people along to the UCRCoA Legal Scholars in your own geographic area [the Legal Scholars are typically known only to other UCRCoA Legal Scholars and to the Board of Directors in the corresponding State]. Your Board may consider charging a small token "referral fee" - small - for matching prospective public clients with the Legal Scholars in your own geographic area. People usually are looking for legal assistance with a State case, but sometimes are interested in Federal legal help, too. The UCRCoA's various Legal Scholars are available to be hired at reasonable rates for providing skilled legal assistance to public clients. The higher levels of the UCRCoA's Legal Scholars will work with the 50 state Boards to make sure everyone is updated with the current private listing of Legal Scholars in the various geographic areas. The state-level Legal Scholars hold their positions indefinitely at the mutual pleasure of that state's Board of Directors, and a Director may also be a Legal Scholar in and for their own State.