Category Archives: Organization
Tweet, Tweet! LifeRing is on Twitter!
Even if you have assiduously avoided learning anything about Twitter, the wildly popular vehicle for sending brief updates about the important developments in your life (“PB&J for lunch again today. OMG – bread so stale!”) you’ll want to sign up … Continue reading
Help us Update “How Was Your Week”
Here is a new way to help LifeRing move forward: help in the re-writing and editing of one of our most important publications — “How Was Your Week? Bringing People Together in Recovery the LifeRing Way, a Handbook.” The author … Continue reading
Three New Members of LifeRing Board of Directors
At it’s Jan. 12 meeting, the LifeRing Board of Directors accepted the resignation of three of it’s members and elected replacements to serve until the next Annual Meeting, coming this Spring. The three retiring members — Robert B., Andy R. … Continue reading
Fill Out a Survey to Help LifeRing
Michael W., head of LifeRing Canada, is looking for some help in gathering information to assist in setting up a ‘buddy system’ within LifeRing. Such a system would be an enhancement of the peer-support that LifeRing has always emphasized. With … Continue reading
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New, Longer Office Hours at LifeRing Service Center
LifeRing is, of course, almost entirely an all-volunteer organization. The one exception is our paid office administrator, the inestimable Rachaell, who has been (while juggling other jobs) putting in a nine hour week at the Service Center, handling book orders … Continue reading
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Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year from all of us at LifeRing Secular Recovery! 2010 was the year for beginning a major transition for LifeRing, as our founding leader, Martin N., stepped back from his CEO role. Marty had given his all to … Continue reading
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Donations
Just like almost every other non-profit organization, LifeRing faces the need to increase its revenue if it wants to grow. There are three basic streams of money available to us: income from book sales; donations, and grants. Book sales have … Continue reading
A Thank-You to LifeRing Convenors
As the year winds down, I, both personally as Executive Director and on behalf of the Board of Directors, want to take a moment to express gratitude to those who make LifeRing the organization that it is: the convenors. These … Continue reading
Dollar-a-Sober-Month Fundraiser for LifeRing
Kathleen G., in Denver, Colorado, has suggested that the LifeRing members there contribute one dollar to LifeRing for every month they’ve been clean-and-sober. It’s such a good idea, all LifeRingers should consider joining the effort. Kathleen writes: “A year or … Continue reading
Open House at the LifeRing Service Center
This Saturday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., we’ll be having an Open House at the LifeRing Service Center, 1440 Broadway, Ste. 312, in Oakland. It’s a chance to say hello to Craig — the Executive Director — … Continue reading
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