Special Forces Association Chapter 45 (Buckeye Chapter) has successfully established a 501(c)(3) Charitable subsidiary organization – the Ohio Green Beret Support Group, LLC. This was a long process with the IRS, and it enables generous Americans to make tax deductible donations to support our multiple initiatives.
Among those initiatives, The Buckeye Chapter is excited to launch its endowed scholarship program. In January 2020, we created a program managed by The Columbus Foundation – central Ohio’s leading and most prestigious charitable organization. Members and their immediate families are eligible for one of three $1,000 grants of tuition assistance. A description of the Ohio Green Beret Support Group and the scholarship program are in our www.SFA45.org home page; we included a link that connects to the Columbus Foundation’s application process website.
The Scholarship Program’s base is a $75,000 endowment. This amount was sourced from four years of fundraising by the Buckeye Chapter, and the fundraising vigorously continues. We wish to grow the endowment as well as fund various other supporting initiatives to help Green Berets and their families.
Many generous chapter members have contributed, and our anchor contributor each year remains former 18C, Ed Petkovich of the Walsingham Group. We will conduct our Four Annual 3-Gun Shoot fundraiser and our Fifth Annual Motorcycle Freedom Run fundraiser in 2020. The Chapter is brainstorming a new, larger fundraising event; details are in the early phases of ideation.
In the end, much of our fundraising is centered on the brave men of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group and their families. It also supports the members and families of the Buckeye Chapter, and from time to time, other Green Berets who call Ohio their home.
