7th Tradition
“Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.” — Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
District 3 Payment Info
Until District 3 provides a digital payment method, we are accepting checks.
Mailing address for checks:
P.O.Box 94641
Pasadena CA 91109
Please include your:
Meeting name, time and location
Sender name
Address for mailed receipt
To help support A.A.’s essential services, the General Service Conference suggests that individual groups, through an informed group conscience, adopt a specific contribution plan tailored to meet the group’s financial situation.
Once the basic group expenses have been taken care of, for example: (rent, refreshments, A.A. literature, Grapevine literature, local meeting lists, G.S.R. travel expenses to attend service functions), and a “prudent reserve” has been set aside to cover any emergency contingencies that might arise, the group may decide to further carry the message by sending money to the District (mailing address above) and the other offices:
Southern California Area05 of Alcoholics Anonymous
P.O. Box 481193
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Please include your:
Meeting name, time and location
Sender name
Address for mailed receipt
General Service Office
Post Office Box 2407
James A Farley Station
New York, NY 10116-2407
Make checks payable to the General Service Board
Please include your:
Meeting name, time and location
Sender name
Address for mailed receipt
7th Tradition Long Form:
“The A.A. groups themselves ought to be fully supported by the voluntary contributions of their own members. We think that each group should soon achieve this ideal; that any public solicitation of funds using the name of Alcoholics Anonymous is highly dangerous, whether by groups, clubs, hospitals, or other outside agencies; that acceptance of large gifts from any source, or of contributions carrying any obligation whatever, is unwise. Then, too, we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose. Experience has often warned us that nothing can so surely destroy our spiritual heritage as futile disputes over property, money and authority.”
The Twelve Steps and The Twelve Traditions