Category: The AA Grapevine

  • 2024 Opening for GV/LV Non-Trustee Director

    2024 Opening for GV/LV Non-Trustee Director

    Do you think you have what it takes to be a Non-Trustee Director for the AA Grapevine? 

    The 2024 Conference will be selecting one – maybe it will be you! 

    Some of the qualities most desirable include a sound business or professional background, including but not limited to management, legal, publishing, content production, and/or e-commerce; familiarity and ties to diverse AA & professional communities; ability to work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives; prior non-profit services a plus; minimum of 7 years sobriety in the AA program; availability to attend quarterly & planning committee meetings.  All interested AA members may apply, with the exception of Panel 72 Delegates.  All resumes will be considered.  For more information and full directions on how to apply, please follow this link:  Non-Trustee Director opening.  Resumes are due by September 15, 2023.

    Click here for more information and a link to the resume form.

  • GV/LV App Update

    GV/LV App Update

    BETA testing has begun!

    I am happy to report my iPhone now has the new GV/LV App in BETA testing form.  It’s a fun app and I’m still finding my way around it, as well as reporting any bugs I might find.  If you see me, ask me to show it to you.  I’d be happy to.

     

  • Opening for AAGV Non-Trustee Director

    Opening for AAGV Non-Trustee Director

    Interested in serving on the AAGV Board?  Here’s your chance!!

    AA Grapevine’s Corporate Board has started a search to fill a vacancy for one non-trustee director on the slate at the 2024 General Service Conference. Interested A.A. members are encouraged to submit a résumé. Basic qualifications for this position are: a minimum of seven years of continuous sobriety with a working knowledge of the A.A. service structure and familiarity with The A.A. Service Manual; ability to work with diverse teams in a group conscience setting; experience serving on boards of directors (nonprofit experience is most helpful); knowledge of organizational strategic planning, problem solving and implementation of change; experience with organizational management and finances; and familiarity and experience with management, legal, publishing, content production, web/app development, e-commerce and experience with new communication technologies and methodologies. The time commitment required is significant and includes availability to attend four planning meetings of the AA Grapevine Board, as well as attendance at three General Service Board weekends, which include quarterly AA Grapevine Board meetings and meetings of trustees’ committees (to which corporate board directors are appointed). Trustees’ committees may also include conference calls between in-person meetings. In addition, directors attend the General Service Conference for one week in April and may be called upon to represent AA Grapevine at Regional Forums or other A.A. functions. In seeking applications for all vacancies in A.A., the Fellowship is committed to creating a large applicant file of qualified persons, which
    reflects the inclusiveness and diversity of Alcoholics Anonymous. Completed résumés should be submitted by September 15, 2023.

    Click here for more information and a link to the resume form.

     

  • Grapevine Photo Opportunity

    Grapevine Photo Opportunity

    An opportunity for our creative members.

    Feel free to send AA Grapevine your favorite photos that reflect the joy of living, serenity, and other sobriety themes.

    Photos must be anonymity protected with no full-face poses or readily identifiable images of people.

    Selected photos will be posted on the AA Grapevine Instagram page – you may enter as many photos as you wish.

    Please include your name and last initial, and location.

    If you are interested, send photos to social@aagrapevine.org .

  • News Release:  Grapevine Price Adjustments for 2023

    News Release: Grapevine Price Adjustments for 2023

    Due to increasing costs of supplies, Grapevine will be increasing the price on books and other content related items beginning January 2023. Get your orders in now!!

  • June Grapevine News!

    June Grapevine News!

    What’s New For June 2022!

     

  • New from Grapevine!  Fun in Sobriety

    New from Grapevine! Fun in Sobriety

    Hot off the press – from Grapevine to you
    Fun in Sobriety features 50-plus inspiring stories by members of Alcoholics Anonymous about the many ways they’ve learned to have a good time after putting down the drink.

    Chapters include travel, outdoor activities, arts & hobbies, social entertainment, fun-filled AA activities and sober events. The stories were previously published in Grapevine, the International Journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.

    Fun in Sobriety is full of passion and humor; this book shows how, by working the program and developing a sober network, life can begin to take on new, exciting adventures.

    To order your book for only $11.50, simply click here.

     

  • Free on the Inside

    Free on the Inside

    Newly released!

    Free on the Inside features 50+ powerful stories by sober members of Alcoholics Anonymous who have experienced AA in prison

     

    Click here to get yours now – with free shipping for the entire month of February.

     

     

     

  • The Grapevine 1/2 Hour Variety Hour Podcast

    The Grapevine 1/2 Hour Variety Hour Podcast

    Did you know?

    The Grapevine has it’s own weekly podcast! 

    Follow the follies of long-time members Don & Sam as they host a weekly meeting after the meeting chat with another member.

    You can listen at aagrapevine.org/podcast or find them on your favorite podcast platform.

    Every Monday a new episode is released.