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)
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