OA Seventh Tradition Cycle — Giving and Receiving

OA Member (red box)

Your donation comes back to you in many ways.

OA Meeting (yellow box)

Experience, strength, and hope

Safe place for feelings

Available sponsors

Service Board/Intergroup (green box)

Connects meetings

Newcomer support

Recovery events

Region/Virtual (blue box)

Connects Intergroups/Service Bodies (“IGs/SBs”)

Recovery events

Funding

World Service Office (purple)

OA literature

OA.org website

Find a Meeting Outreach

Seventh Tradition contributions make all this happen – for you and others.

A Message to all OA members (red row)

• Our vision is to be fully self-supporting through Seventh Tradition contributions.
• Do you know you can now set up an Automatic Recurring Contribution (ARC) to the World Service Office online at oa.org/contribute?

OA Meeting: Face-to-face and Virtual (yellow row)

• Living examples of the OA message of recovery and long-term abstinence
• A safe place for feelings and fellowship
• A place to look for a sponsor

Intergroup/Service Board (green row)

• Connection between meetings (meeting lists, speaker/sponsor lists, etc.)
• Phone answering for potential newcomers
• Recovery events (e.g. workshops, conventions, retreats)

Region/Virtual (blue row)

• Connection between intergroups/service boards
• Recovery events and assemblies
• Funding for attendance at health fairs and business meetings

World Service Office (WSO) (purple row)

• OA literature, including books, pamphlets, Lifeline blog, and newsletters (some in multiple languages)
• Comprehensive and widely-used OA website (www.oa.org)
• Find a Meeting (face-to-face, phone, and online)
• Podcasts
• Support for newcomers, members, meetings, and service bodies
• Outreach through media and public relations to fellows and professionals around the world