By being active or giving service in CLA, you can develop new skills and friendships, participate in and keep abreast of developments in CLA℠, the CLA-East Intergroup, the CLA Telephone Intergroup, and CLA WSO (Clutterers Anonymous World Service Organization, Inc.).”The CLA℠ program gives us the opportunity to enhance our own progress by taking on various service responsibilities, from holding office to doing cleanup. As we serve, we risk moving out of isolation, to grow, and to practice the principles of our program within the fellowship. Service is giving back to the fellowship,” states our first Tool of Recovery.
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Member Opportunities
For example:
- Dates and times of our next Declutterthon℠
- Registration fee for our CLA convention
- Location of CLA-East Intergroup's next Clutter-Free Day
- Results of the WSO officer elections
How Donations Are Used:
- Literature
- Printing
- Meeting Starter Kits
- Meeting Directories
- CD Duplications
- Website
- Web Master
- Phone Cards
- Phone Service
- Postage
- Post Office Box Rental
- 501(c)3 Annual Filing
- Incorporation Fees
- Regional Events
- Various Office Supplies
On a service committee you might:
- Help write our excellent literature or interesting articles for our CLArity newsletter
- Help throw a party (make our next fun-filled and informative convention a reality)
- Help keep meeting directories up-to-date for people seeking meetings
- Help coordinate our phone meetings and phone activity sessions
- Help design and maintain this website
- Help prepare CLA's annual budget and compare it with actual figures
As WSO delegate, you would vote your group's conscience at WSO business meetings.
As an Intergroup delegate, you would vote your group's conscience at CLA-East Intergroup business meetings (if applicable).
Depending on the office, as a CLA WSO officer, you might:
- Handle financial and legal aspects of CLA
- Answer phone or email inquiries from clutterers, their friends, and family
- Respond to public information requests by the press
- Write and disseminate the minutes and agendas for WSO business meetings and Executive Committee meetings
- Inventory, replenish, and mail out literature requests (currently from Cary, NC and St. Petersburg, FL)
