Tradition Six

Our A.A. experience has taught us that:

Problems of money, property, and authority may eas ily divert us from our primary spiritual aim. We think, there fore, that any considerable property of genuine use to A.A. 564 should be separately incorporated and managed, thus dividing the material from the spiritual. An A.A. group, as such, should never go into business. Secondary aids to A.A., such as clubs or hospitals which require much property or administration, ought to be incorporated and so set apart that, if necessary, they can be freely discarded by the groups. Hence such facil ities ought not to use the A.A. name. Their management should be the sole respon sibility of those people who finan cially support them. For clubs, A.A. managers are usually pre ferred. But hospitals, as well as other places of recuperation, ought to be well outside A.A.—and medically supervised. While an A.A. group may cooperate with anyone, such coop eration ought never go so far as affiliation or endorsement, ac tual or implied. An A.A. group can bind itself to no one.

An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.