First Conference e-Documents are now available for the 2025 World Service Business Conference (WSBC), which will be held virtually and in-person from May 4-10, 2025. The documents now available include: Chair’s Letter: An official welcome and overview from Meg M., Chair of the Board of Trustees, detailing the importance of the WSBC and what participants … Continued
Looking to familiarize your OA fellows with digital resources on oa.org? Check out the four new “Focus On…” presentations recently posted on oa.org! The presentations, each focused on a different area of OA service, are meant to serve as both quick introductions to lesser-known free OA resources and inspirational conversation starters for a group or … Continued
Enhance your service body meetings with a valuable new resource now available on oa.org! The Sample Standing Rules for Service Bodies document shows how a clear structure can help streamline meetings while encouraging fairness of participation. The Sample Standing Rules template is flexible and customizable to your service body’s needs, empowering your group to conduct … Continued
Our Regions Map was recently updated to reflect the disbanding of Region Four and the allocation of Region Four’s geographic territory to adjacent OA regions, namely Regions One, Three, and Five. The new map reflects a group conscience decision made one year ago by the Region Four board to disband as well as subsequent decisions … Continued
Webmasters, newsletter editors, and document creators can now get “permalinks” to documents on oa.org. A permalink does not change or break when OA updates a document in the Document Library. To get a document’s permalink, go to the Document Library or any other document link on oa.org. Instead of opening the document, right click, option … Continued
In celebration of Sponsorship Day, the Strategic Planning Sponsorship Subcommittee has put together material to highlight the many sponsorship resources available on oa.org. See Sponsorship Resources for a click-through menu of sponsorship topics and watch the video, which shows where to find all our recovery and service materials on our Fellowship’s website. We wish you … Continued
OA’s Board of Trustees has appointed new trustees to fill vacant positions. Congratulations and welcome to new and returning trustees who have formed the OA board for 2024–2025! Officers Chair Meg M First Vice Chair Barb K Second Vice Chair BJ J Treasurer Bob L Executive Committee Officers above, plus Blair P * Bruce R … Continued
Are your service body’s bylaws consistent with World Service Business Conference policies? Do you know when they were last reviewed? Our new Service Body Bylaws Checklist can help you answer these questions and guide your service body toward establishing a regular process to review, revise, and approve its bylaws. The Service Body Bylaws Checklist is … Continued
If you are looking for complete details about the status of all New Business Motions and Bylaw Amendments considered at World Service Business Conference (WSBC) 2024, look no further than the Wrap-Up Report now posted on the WSBC web page. The report also includes a summary of representation among OA’s service bodies and which OA … Continued
Update June 3, 2024: The summary of the amendment to policy 1982e has been edited for accuracy. Under the banner “We ALL Belong: Welcome to OA!”, 188 delegates hailing from twenty-one countries and speaking fourteen languages gathered May 7–11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA, to convene what turned out to be a most successful World … Continued