Activities Committee

The Activities Committee organizes and hosts all the Intergroup social events for fellowship and fundraising. Events include the Sobriety Show, the Bull & Oyster Roast, the Gratitude Breakfast, dances and others.  Help us plan our next event!

The Activities Committee Meets the 1st Thursday of the month at 7:00pm online – Meeting ID: 853 8811 1604 Password: 552430

Answering Service

Answering Service volunteers are often the first contact a newcomer has with A.A. Help us keep A.A.’s hotline staffed 24-hours a day by answering calls from home during the hours when the Intergroup Office is closed. Early morning and evening shifts are available.

12 Step Calls: When alcoholics call the AA hotline asking for help, the Intergroup Office reaches out to A.A. members on our 12th Step List. Having a phone contact helps newcomers know they are not alone. Your responsibility: Call the newcomer right away. Share your experience, strength, and hope. Convey that help is available in A.A. Anything else is up to your discretion. Having a phone contact helps newcomers know they are not alone.

Bridging the Gap: When alcoholics are released from treatment facilities or institutions, they need a Temporary Contact as a link between treatment and recovery. Your responsibility: Call the newcomer right away. Share your experience, strength, and hope. Act as a temporary contact for a week or more. Meet the newcomer at meetings and introduce them to other A.A. members so they can form a network to stay sober.

Are you willing to make a 12th Step phone call to extend the hand of AA? Are you willing to ‘bridge the gap’ as a temporary contact for someone just coming out of treatment?

12 Step List/Bridging the Gap Sign-up

12-Step-Sign-Up-List-2026.pdf – Sign Up Sheet to take to your group

CPC / PI Committee

The Cooperation with the Professional Community (CPC) provides information to professional groups such as clergy, lawyers, educators, and law enforcement, through seminars and other activities to help the professional community better understand A.A.

If you’d like A.A. to staff a table or booth at your event, please give us notice at least two weeks in advance (preferably one month or more) so we have adequate time to schedule a volunteers.

The Public Information (PI) Committee provides literature, contact information, and answers questions about A.A. at various venues, health fairs, and alcohol awareness programs.

Pamphlet racks filled with Alcoholics Anonymous literature are available for placement in libraries, schools, medical offices, union halls, etc. We can also provide public service announcement spots for radio and television.

Contact: Ferdinand, CPC@baltimoreaa.org

Institutions Committee

Volunteers are always needed to help carry A.A.’s message of hope and recovery. The Institutions Committee cooperates with many area institutions by arranging meetings in prisons, hospitals, and treatment facilities. The committee is always looking for sponsors and co-sponsors to take meetings to alcoholics who can’t get out. The Institution Committee needs speakers for meetings!

Committee Meetings are the 3rd Friday of each month at 7 p.m.
In-person: University Baptist Church, 34th St & Greenway
Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/85109787096
Password: 036778
One tap mobile: +13017158592,,88666293910#,,,,0#,,229395# US
Phone: 301-715-8592

The committee is looking for sponsors and co-sponsors to take meetings to alcoholics who can’t get out. The sign-up form is for individuals who want to volunteer to speak and also for home groups that want to get in rotation to carry the message to institutions. There are both in-person and virtual opportunities for speakers. 

INSTITUTION SPEAKER / SPONSOR Sign-Up Form (click here)

FAQ:
What does an Institutional Sponsor do?
A Sponsor coordinates the weekly attendance of group members at the scheduled AA Groups in institutional facilities. Once an Institutional meeting is established, the Sponsor becomes a representative of the Committee. Any problems with the attendance of Groups, staff or individuals should be brought to the attention of the Committee.

How much sobriety time do I need to be an Institutional Sponsor?
It is recommended that a Sponsor have a minimum of one (1) year of sobriety.
A co-sponsor assists the sponsor and performs the duties of a sponsor in his or her absence. It is recommended that the co-sponsor have a minimum of six (6) months of sobriety.

Intergroup Representative

The Intergroup Representative attends the monthly Baltimore Intergroup meeting on the 2nd Monday of each month at 7pm. The Intergroup Representative is your Home Group’s voice at the local office. All AA groups are welcome to participate. Each representative has a vote at the Intergroup Council meetings.

The IR reports to their group about the Intergroup Committees (listed on this page), supports activities sponsored by the Intergroup, and brings awareness to your group of the 12 Step work provided by the office. It is important that the IR suggests that the secretary, or the IR reads the Intergroup Bulletin at the meeting.

https://baltimoreaa.org/digital-new-intergroup-rep-packet-1/

Outreach Committee

The Outreach Committee maintains communication between the Intergroup Council, the Intergroup Office, and A.A. groups by updating group information, visiting groups on their anniversaries, and promoting A.A. workshops.

Intergroup Office Volunteers

Answer the hotline in the Intergroup Office during the hours the office is open. Morning and afternoon shifts are available. You may help with other light administrative work. Volunteers who answer the hotline provide assistance to persons who have problems related to alcohol.

Contact: Lisa, 410-663-1922 (Tues, Wed, Thurs)

Workshop Committee

The Workshop Committee plans for volunteers to work behind the scenes in facilitating the Intergroup’s efforts to put on informative and educational workshops that enforce AA Traditions and service. The Workshop Committee helps book meeting spaces for workshops, arrange room setup and cleanup, and handles publicity for all workshops. Contact: Gail G., 410-663-1922, intergroup@baltimoreaa.org

Website

Our aim is to provide up-to-date technology and a responsive, accessible, user-friendly website. Contact Steve M, 410-663-1922, stevenm@baltimoreaa.org

A.A.’s Legacy of Service by Bill W. (1951)

Our Twelfth Step — carrying the message — is the basic service that the A.A. Fellowship gives; this is our principal aim and the main reason for our existence. Therefore, A.A. is more than a set of principles; it is a society of alcoholics in action. We must carry the message, else we ourselves can wither and those who haven’t been given the truth may die.

Hence, an A.A. service is anything whatever that helps us to reach a fellow sufferer — ranging all the way from the Twelfth Step itself to a ten-cent phone call and a cup of coffee, and to A.A.’s General Service Office for national and international action. The sum total of all these services is our Third Legacy of Service.

Services include meeting places, hospital cooperation, and intergroup offices; they mean pamphlets, books, and good publicity of almost every description. They call for committees, delegates, trustees, and conferences. And, not to be forgotten, they need voluntary money contributions from within the Fellowship.

Download A.A. Service Manual & 12 Concepts of World Service
A.A.’s Legacy of Service by Bill W. (1951)