This October, SMART Recovery is highlighting our Support This Meeting fundraising functionality, offering a simple and impactful way for participants and supporters to contribute directly to their favorite meetings. Through our SMARTfinder system, you can donate to SMART Recovery USA in honor of a specific meeting, ensuring that your contributions directly support the meetings that matter most to you.
To make a donation, visit any meeting page in the SMARTfinder system and click on the red “Support This Meeting” button. You can even set up recurring monthly donations for ongoing support. Every donation, no matter the size, helps us sustain and grow our life-changing meetings across the country.
Why Support This Fundraiser?
We budget approximately $125 in direct expenses per year to support each in-person meeting and $425 per year for each online meeting. With 1,658 active meetings, we rely on the generosity of supporters to cover these costs and continue expanding our services. If every meeting received just $25 in donations, we could raise over $41,000—funds that would allow us to channel more resources into program development and outreach!
Additional Benefits of Participation
Meetings that raise $25 or more will earn the opportunity to be selected to receive one free 2025 national conference registration for one of their meeting facilitators. Another five meetings that meet the $25 threshold will be randomly selected to receive one free self-paced facilitator training to support a participant getting trained as a facilitator.
Facilitators—Encourage Your Participants to Join In!
We encourage facilitators to remind participants to take part in this special fundraiser. Direct your group members to SMARTfinder, where they can search for your meeting, visit the meeting page, and click the “Support This Meeting” button. Group donations made “pass the hat” style should continue to be submitted via the group donation form.
Your support is critical to our success. Thank you for helping us ensure SMART Recovery meetings remain accessible to everyone who needs them.
