SUGGESTED CONTRIBUTION GUIDELINES

The General Service pamphlet “Self Support: Where Money & Spirituality Mix” & “Memo to an AA Group Treasurer” & the local pamphlet “Western Mass Area Contributions Guidelines”, suggest that after a group pays its basic expenses such as meeting room rent, refreshments, AA literature & prudent reserve, the group divides the remaining funds on a regular basis toward essential AA services. It further suggests several options for this division, depending on the group’s local needs which is arrived at through its group conscience.

In Western Massachusetts an example of distribution is:

40% to Western Mass Intergroup in Holyoke or the Berkshire Intergroup in Pittsfield

30% to Western Mass Area Committee

20% to Western Mass Institution Committee

10% to the General Service Office in New York

  

 



  

Q Doesn’t all A.A. money go into one pot? In other words, when our group
contributes to central office (intergroup), isn’t our money distributed to the area,
district and G.S.O., as well?

A No. Each A.A. entity – group, district, area, central office and G.S.O. – provides
a specific service and is autonomous. Each is separate from the other.

Examples of Group

Contributions to A.A. Service Entities

Distribution of funds from groups that support four service entities

10% to district
10% to area committee
30% to G.S.O.
50% to intergroup or
central office

If you have no intergroup/central office, distribution of funds from groups that support
Three service entities:

40% to district
30% to area
30% to G.S.O.

Q After group expenses, what is your informed group conscience for
distribution s of excess funds?

A An example is as follows:

Distribution Plan of ____________________________________________

(YOUR GROUP NAME)

Your Group Service # _______________________

District _________%

Area __________%

G.S.O. __________%

Intergroup/Central Office __________%

Other __________%

Q Where should I send contributions? A For contributions to G.S.O., make checks payable to General Service Board
and send to:

General Service Office
P.O. Box 459
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163

For contributions to other A.A. service entities, contact your district committee, area
committee, and local intergroup/central office.

To Area 31 you may make your check out to:

Western Mass Area Committee
P.O. Box 6818, Holyoke, MA 01040

To Western Mass Intergroup you may make your check out to:

Western Mass Intergroup Office
474 Pleasant Street, Holyoke, MA 01040

To Area 31 Institutions you may make your check out to:

Western Mass Institutions Committee
P.O. Box 1391, Holyoke, MA 01040

To Area 31 Berkshire Intergroup you may make your
check made out to:

Berkshire Intergroup
85 East Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201

Thank you for supporting all of Area 31 and AA as a whole.
Without you and your financial support we would not be able to
give back to you, the fellowship, and most of all the newcomer,
all what you see here and more.

Thank you.