NAWS Update 8/27/21

by | Sep 3, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hello,

This email covers the following topics.

Scroll down for more information on each.

Unity Day Webinar

To celebrate Unity Day, we are holding a webinar open to any interested member, Saturday 4 September, 11am-1pm, Pacific Daylight Time. Ten members from around the world will share how their groups and service bodies are helping to create a safe and welcoming atmosphere in NA.

You can join through the Zoom meeting number 848 7902 0276, password 1953, where we will have interpretation in Portuguese and Spanish. If you require translation into another language and you have an interpreter, let us know: wb@na.org. We will also livestream the webinar in English only. The streaming link will be posted on the webinar page shortly before the meeting begins: www.na.org/webinar. You can also find flyers in 8 languages posted on that page.

2020 Annual Report

The 2020 NAWS Annual Report has been posted: www.na.org/ar. Even if you have never looked at one of our annual reports, you’ll want to check out this one. For the first time, we are publishing the report digitally. There is also a PDF version for those who prefer to download a document. The Annual Report is the best place to get a full picture of our finances over the course of the fiscal year. This report covers the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020. Because of the complexity of our organization, with branches in five countries with different currencies and the time required for an external audit, it always takes many months for us to produce an annual report. This time the report is coming out later than usual, primarily because of our continuing staffing shortages. Thank you for your patience. We hope you enjoy the new format.

New Instagram Account for Events

To celebrate reaching more than 10,000 followers on @narcoticsanonymous, we started a new Instagram account @naglobalevents dedicated exclusively to area, regional, zonal, and world events. Send flyers to naglobalevents@na.org and we will post them on Insta and our webpage www.na.org/events.

We can feature event flyers as main posts on @naglobalevents, not just as stories and highlights, as we did on @narcoticsanonymous. For now, we will post events on both accounts, but when @naglobalevents has more followers, we plan to just use that account for event listings. Having an account dedicated to events will free up the stories and highlights on @narcoticsanonymous for clickable items such as new inventory items, new material on the virtual meetings page, audio Basic Texts, and so on. At more than 10,000 followers, we can now include live links on stories and highlights.

Follow our main account @narcoticsanonymous for news and announcements from World Services and @naglobalevents for flyers from around the world.  

Calendar Survey

We have a survey posted through the end of August to gather important dates in NA: www.na.org/survey. Our goal is to create a monthly calendar of significant dates. You can help by sharing important dates, such as when NA started in your community, when the first convention or service body meeting occurred, or other milestones you think would be significant to NA as a whole.

We are looking for area-, regional-, and zonal-level dates. Please limit group anniversaries to the first NA meeting in your community. Given how large NA is—in more than 140 countries!—we won’t be able to include every date, but we appreciate everyone who fills out the survey.

Little White Book 120-Day Notice

This year marks 60 years since the Little White Book (LWB) as we know it (with the Traditions included) was published. We want to remind you that we plan to publish a commemorative LWB that includes the stories from all of the language versions. Thirteen of the 30 translated White Booklets contain local personal stories. We intend to publish a Little White Book with the English translations of all of these stories plus the stories in the English-language LWB, 85 stories in all. We would add a brief description before the title page explaining what this special edition contains and would publish this anniversary edition in English by the end of 2021.

This type of bundling and repackaging of already published literature is permitted through the Fellowship Intellectual Property Trust (FIPT) with 120-day notice to the Trustor. The Trustor of the FIPT is “the Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous, as given voice by its groups through their regional delegates at the World Service Conference.”

We initially emailed in June to announce our intentions. For more information, see the June 2021 Notice for LWB posted at www.na.org/fipt. Any comments can be sent to wb@na.org  by 31 October 2021.

SPAD

It’s not too late to contribute to the Spiritual Principle a Day book project. The last batch of entries is posted for review and input through 13 September: www.na.org/spad.

This batch contains 88 entries on 38 spiritual principles, including attentiveness, autonomy, caring, communication, conscience, consistency, cooperation, curiosity, encouragement, equality, equanimity, fidelity, generosity, honesty, honor, humility, independence, individuality, interdependence, joy, listening, participation, passion, powerlessness, purpose, reliability, restraint, safety, selflessness, serenity, simplicity, sincerity, solidarity, steadfastness, thoughtfulness, trust, wonder, and breakfast(!)

Give input on as many or as few as you like.

New Sponsorship Medallions

We have a new sponsorship medallion available at www.na.org/webstore. Search for item #9603 or for “Sponsorship Medallion.” This full-color medallion with the Group Logo fits easily inside a card envelope, and is a simple way to say thank you. Don’t forget, Sponsorship Day is 1 December.

Invest in Our Vision

Our Seventh Tradition essay in the Basic Text says, “We all have to pull together, and in pulling together we learn that we are really part of something greater than ourselves.” We hope you’ll consider a monthly financial contribution to World Services if you haven’t already set one up: www.na.org/contribute

Thank you to everyone who contributes to NA, whether financially, through service, or sponsorship.

Yours in service,

World Board