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)
