The Grapevine Takes Stock

The mission statement of the AA Grapevine is "to carry the AA message to alcoholics and practice the AA principles in all its affairs." In August 2006, to find out if the message of AA recovery was, indeed, being carried, we sent a survey to a random sample of 2,500 AA Grapevine subscribers. Out of this number, 995 responses were returned, for an overall forty percent response rate. The results of the reader survey act as a way to assess or give us answers to questions like: Is the Grapevine performing its mission? How can we continue to share stories of recovery in a changing world? What do AAs need in their magazine?