For the most recent WAIA treasurer and Finance Reports, including Profit & loss and Balance Sheet Statements, please refer to the board minutes.

The Finance Committee presented the proposal for the 2026 WAIA Budget at the October board meeting. The budget was voted and approved at the WAIA Board Meeting on November 11, 2026.

Resources

Suggested language for your group’s 7th Tradition script: The Washington Area Intergroup Association (WAIA) needs our support. Please help ensure that the office can continue to serve as AA’s DC Intergroup Office ; answering calls 24/7, maintaining a current record of all meetings in the area, and providing other essential services to the still sick and suffering alcoholic. You can make a contribution directly on the WAIA website aa-dc.org/give, or via Venmo @WAIADC. You can now set up recurring payments on the website by “Contribute as an Individual – Recurring” when contributing as an individual. Join our growing group of “Faithful Fivers”  by contributing at least $5.00 a month to support WAIA. Recurring contributions help WAIA budget more accurately to provide services needed.

You can print and pass out this notice at your meetings or share the link in your Zoom.

Groups have asked why WAIA continues to need their support. It is important that WAIA continues to receive regular contributions to maintain our ongoing expenses for the office, phone lines and staff salaries. We have begun sending a new form similar to the one in the AA pamphlet “Where Money and Spirituality Mix” allowing groups more choices in how they distribute their funds.

Past Finance Initiatives

In 2021, WAIA organized an ad hoc committee to determine how to disperse our excess funds in keeping with Tradition 7 which states “we view with much concern those A.A. treasuries which continue, beyond prudent reserves, to accumulate funds for no stated A.A. purpose.” At the July 8, 2021 board meeting, 8 proposals were passed. You can see the details of the new initiatives proposals here. In addition to new initiatives, we sent $10,000 to GSO [see their confirmation of contribution response].

February 9, 2021: The board passed a motion to set WAIA’s prudent reserve to one year operating expenses.
Prudent Reserve Memo, 1/11/2021
Archive Committee Report on Prudent Reserve, 12/7/2021

May 2020: Workshop Notes: Online Tools for Collecting Online/Virtual Contributions
– Sample Treasurer Script

SMF-223 – FAQ on Practicing the Seventh Tradition at Virtual Meetings
–F-3 – Self-Support Where Money & Spirituality Mix
–F-96 The AA Group Treasurer
–MG-15 – AA Guidelines Finance
–AA Tradition – How it Developed, Bill W. (Tradition 7 p8, 27-35) 
–Traditions Checklist (Grapevine) 7th Tradition (p.3-4)

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