Voluntary contributions support Homegroup.Online

Homegroup.Online provides professional financial services.

Generally, Tradition Eight is a principle that governs the use of money and the nature of service within the fellowship, ensuring that the core spiritual work remains freely given while recognizing the need to pay for essential administrative services.

Here is a breakdown focusing on the distinction between voluntary twelve step work and paid professional services.

• Need for Paid Service: Vital, daily tasks—like answering phones, maintaining offices, and distributing literature—could not be reliably managed by volunteers alone. Volunteers would get “disenchanted” with the monotonous, repetitive work and stop showing up.
• Role of Special Workers: Paid employees (often members) who are hired to perform essential administrative and logistical services. They are not paid to counsel or do Twelfth Step work; they are paid to do the jobs that make Twelfth Step work possible.
• Wages and Self-Support: Service entities are expected to pay these employees a fair and competitive wage (comparable to what a profit-making enterprise would earn). This self-support for necessary services is distinct from paying for the spiritual work itself.
• Preventing Misconception: These employees are professional secretaries or administrators, but they are not professional members. Their professional role is entirely separate from their volunteer role (if they choose to take one) of carrying the message. This distinction safeguards the fellowship’s nonprofessional character.