Board of Trustees

The primary purpose of the GSAWS Board of Trustees (BOT) is to run the business of the organization and to protect the program by protecting the integrity GreySheet food plan and ensuring that the organization operates as a Twelve Step program based on the Traditions and Concepts. The Board of Trustees’ function is to execute the direction of the Conference while protecting the program.

Example: The Conference decides it wants to publish literature or a new website. The BOT works to get this done within the financial constraints of fellowship.

Town Halls

The Board of Trustees hosts quarterly Town Halls for the fellowship to ask questions, make suggestions, and raise concerns about the services provided by GSA World Services.

The last Sunday of January, April, and July at 11:00am ET on Zoom ID  717 731 799, GSA Passcode.

8 am PT, 9 am MT, & 10 am CT; 4 pm Iceland, Ireland, & UK; 5 pm Central Europe, 6 pm Eastern Europe, South Africa, & Israel; 12 am Hong Kong; 3 am Eastern Australia.

Submit a question, suggestion, and concern anonymously using Communication@greysheet.org or email the board directly at GreySheet@greysheet.org.

Officers

In addition to their roles within the fellowship, the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer are corporate officers of GreySheeters Anonymous World Services, Inc.

President

  • Representative of the organization and designated official in dealings with outside vendors, publishers. Responsible for executing contracts and other legal documents.
  • Chairs the World Service Conference meetings and the BOT meetings.

Vice-President

  • Fills in for President when necessary and assists President in other tasks as needed.

Treasurer

  • Responsible for finances of organization
  • In conjunction with BOT, creates and sets the budget and provides good stewardship of the fellowship’s resources
  • Most importantly, treasurer provides complete transparency to the fellowship by posting financial reports on the website every month

Assistant Treasurer

  • Assists the treasurer as necessary

Secretary

  • Responsible for keeping all records of the organization, including official records of all GSAWS business meetings like World Service Conference and Board of Trustees meetings

Assistant Secretary

  • Assists the secretary as necessary. Maintains the Board Calendar, Intergroup Calendar, Committee Calendar, and Delegate Calendar.

Registrar

  • Responsible for keeping current and accurate records of our groups. It’s important to have an accurate record of groups because they are, ultimately, our members. Accurate information enables us to communicate effectively with the fellowship and aid in our primary purpose.

 

GreySheeters Anonymous World Service Vision

“When anyone anywhere realizes they have a problem with food, they think of GreySheet.”

This is the primary purpose of World Service – to make sure that everyone suffering with a food problem has the opportunity to try the GreySheet solution.

How do we accomplish this vision? We have four core functions.

1. Maintaining the Integrity of the GreySheet Program

  • The original GreySheet document and definition of GreySheet abstinence remains available to current and future members so that they may attain and maintain GreySheet abstinence. (See "Why We Don't Change the GreySheet.")
  • GreySheeters Anonymous Groups and Intergroups follow the Cambridge GreySheet tradition, the Twelve Traditions, and the Twelve Concepts for World Service.

2. The GreySheet.org Website

  • greysheet.org is on the first page of search results when anyone anywhere searches online for a solution to their food problem.
  • greysheet.org provides the most frequently sought answers for those suffering and those seeking to help them.
  • greysheet.org makes it easy for someone to get started on their GreySheet abstinence.

3. GreySheeters Anonymous Literature

  • GreySheeters Anonymous books and pamphlets provide experience, strength, and hope on attaining and maintaining GreySheet abstinence and working the Twelve Steps of GreySheeters Anonymous.
  • GreySheeters Anonymous literature is readily available online and at GreySheeters Anonymous meetings and events.

4. Public Information Activity

  • Using material such as pamphlets and flyers, GreySheeters Anonymous Intergroups, Groups, and Individuals inform those suffering, and those seeking to help them, about the GreySheet solution and the GreySheeters Anonymous program.
  • GreySheeters Anonymous Intergroups, Groups, and Individuals have easy access to this material online and at GreySheeters Anonymous meetings and events.

World Services

GreySheeters Anonymous (GSA) is a non-profit organization with one primary purpose – to help members stay abstinent and to help members carry the message to the next compulsive eater. While we model ourselves on A.A., we have evolved in different ways over the years to support that purpose.

Organizational Model

We start with the A.A. model for our organization of an inverted triangle. The top of the triangle is the groups. Groups are two or more members who come together to support their own abstinence and help others to achieve abstinence. They do that by having regular meetings to share the message. Currently GSA has 152 registered groups with 192 meetings.

To support our individual abstinence and to have effective group meetings, we need certain things such as

  • Literature, like GreySheets, meeting formats, pamphlets, and books
  • Meeting Information such as a printed meeting list or a website to let others know their meeting time and place
  • Public Information to tell the community that the group exists: pamphlets, meeting lists, flyers, business cards, templates to write letters to health professionals, public service announcements to provide to radio stations, and guidelines for how to use the media out to get the message

Since all GSers and all GSA groups need these things, it makes sense for us to come together to create them. That’s where World Services come in – to provide those services that everyone needs. To do this, we need two things:

  1. A legal entity to represent us to outside entities like A.A. and O.A. and to sign contracts and
  2. A way for the groups to tell the Board of Trustees what they want these services to look like.

In 1998, we incorporated as GSAWS to create the legal entity and made a Board of Trustees responsible for executing the decisions of the groups. But we had no way for the groups to communicate with the board.

The GSA World Service Conference

In 2008, the Board of Trustees designed the World Service Conference (WSC) as a structure for groups to communicate with the Board of Trustees. Every group and every intergroup particpates in the Conference via its elected representative, and each member of the Board of Trustees also serves as a delegate. This broad participation enables the World Service Conference to be "the active voice and the effective conscience of our whole Society in its world affairs," as Concept II states.

MORE ABOUT THE WORLD SERVICE CONFERENCE

Vision for World Service

The big dream for World Service is that everyone in the world knows what GreySheet is so that whenever anyone realizes they have a problem with food, GreySheet is one of the options they have available to them. 

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Board of Trustees

GSAWS Board of Trustees’ primary purpose is to run the business of the organization and to protect the program by protecting the GreySheet food plan and ensuring that the organization operates as a Twelve Step program based on the Traditions and Concepts. The Board of Trustees’ function is to execute the direction of the Conference while protecting the program.

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