How will the proposed
General Service Conference be financed?
Answer
How best to finance our
Conference is a moot question. The General
Service Conference will function for the benefit
of A.A. as a whole. Its entire cost ought to be
a charge against those "Group contributions" now
sent to New York for the support of the General
Office. But this method is quite impossible now.
Group contributions are not meeting General
Office expenses. Nor can the "reserve" or the
Foundation's A.A. "book income" carry the
Conference.
We therefore propose that all
A.A. Groups be asked for a gift of $5 each,
yearly, at Christmas. The Foundation Trustees
would deposit these sums in a special account
marked "Conference Funds."
If even one-half of the A.A.
Groups made this annual $5 gift to the
Foundation "for the benefit of the million who
don't yet know," we estimate that the resulting
income would absorb the total yearly Conference
overhead, plus all Delegates' transportation to
New York in excess of $100 each. (Third Legacy
Pamphlet, October 1950)
