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"By the spring of 1938 a definite program of action took shape. It was agreed that we needed a tax-free charitable trust or foundation. Wealthy contributors could then deduct gifts from their tax returns. "The first move was to choose a name for the new outfit. After long discussion we decided to call it the Alcoholic Foundation. This seemed like a resounding title, one that could create an impression of large importance. Still swayed by big ideas, we thought our trusteeship ought to be chartered to do just about anything within the field of alcohol or alcoholism except lobby for Prohibition. We intended an arrangement by which we could research, educate, and do a lot of other things. Attention to our membership would be only one of many functions.
"It was thought that the
Board of Trustees should consist of alcoholics and nonalcoholics. The latter
were always to be in the majority by a margin of one. This would assure our
membership and other contributors that nonalcoholics would be holding the purse
strings."
2001 AAWS, Inc.
Alcoholics
Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 151-52
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