The AA Grapevine Statement of Purpose

The AA Grapevine is the international journal of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Written, edited, illustrated, and read by AA members and others interested in the

AA program of recovery from alcoholism, the Grapevine is a lifeline linking one

alcoholic to another.

Widely known as a "meeting in print," the AA Grapevine communicates

the experience, strength, and hope of its contributors and reflects a broad

geographic spectrum of current AA experience with recovery, unity, and service.

Founded in 1944, the Grapevine does not receive group contributions, but is

supported entirely through magazine subscription sales and additional income

derived from the sale of Grapevine items.

The awareness that every AA member has an individual way of working

the program permeates the pages of the Grapevine, and throughout its history the

magazine has been a forum for the varied and often divergent opinions of AAs

around the world. Articles are not intended to be statements of AA policy, nor does

publication of any article imply endorsement by either AA or the Grapevine.

As Bill W. expressed it in 1946, "The Grapevine will be the voice of the

Alcoholics Anonymous movement. Its editors and staff will be primarily

accountable to the AA movement as a whole. . . . Within the bounds of friendliness

and good taste, the Grapevine will enjoy perfect freedom of speech on all matters

directly pertaining to Alcoholics Anonymous. . . . Like the Alcoholics Anonymous

movement it is to mirror, there will be but one central purpose: The Grapevine will

try to carry the AA message to alcoholics and practice the AA principles in all its

affairs."

Responsibility Declaration

"I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere,

reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always

to be there. And for that: I am responsible."