There is a common thread in the dedication and commitment of our generous donors. Planned giving affords them the opportunity to not only make a commitment to the nation’s national security through our Reserve Forces; it also provides the opportunity to achieve personal financial goals while making financially prudent decisions that benefit the donor and their families.

Please visit this Web site often and utilize the wealth of information provided by financial professionals to inform and assist you with your planned giving decisions. Technically accurate information is provided in a visual format that you will find to be exciting and thought provoking, as you reach out for the best financial options available.

On behalf of The Reserve Officers Association, we would like to thank all of our current donors for their generosity and support. Here are some of their stories.

RADM G. Robert Merrilees, USCGR (Ret.): ROA Immediate Past President

The Endowment is a way to support ROA. The reason Beverly and I support it, is because we believe in what it stands for—Homeland Security. Homeland Security is the major number one item we have in the U.S. today. We are Reserve forces integrated with the Active Duty Commands supporting the Abrams Doctrine, and I believe in that principle.

MG Evan “Curly” Hultman, AUS (Ret.)

Support for ROA’S future is one of the reasons MG Evan “Curly” Hultman and his wife Betty have contributed to the Endowment Fund.“ ROA needs resources to continue its mission in the future, and the ROA Endowment is a great way to show support for our Reserve Forces.” General Hultman said recently. He and his wife also expressed gratitude for the many ways they have benefited from ROA, and added that they “couldn’t think of a better way for each of us to give back some measure of what we’ve gained” by ensuring ROA’S future through an Endowment Fund contribution.

CAPT Alan K. Brier, USCGR (Ret.)

Jane and I feel it guarantees the financial future for the Reserve Officers Association.

“I encourage all members of the Reserve Officers Association to consider making a gift to the ROA Memorial Endowment Trust. ROA's unique congressional charter provides that the purpose of our Association shall be to support a military policy for the United States, which will provide adequate National Security. A gift to the Endowment Trust will insure that ROA continues to have a strong voice on legislative issues, which affect the defense of our nation. Our citizen soldiers have performed in an outstanding manner to defend our country for over 228 years. I strongly believe in ROA's mission and have made a contribution to the ROA Memorial Endowment Trust. Thanks for your service to our nation and ROA and I hope you will consider a gift to the Memorial Endowment Trust.”

ROA Resource Development ensures the viability of ROA’s future, ROA is here to support our future……. We believe that they go hand in hand.

RADM Bennett S. “Bud” Sparks USCGR (Ret.)

It’s a fund that will ensure the long-range life of ROA and allow us to always be diligent about supporting our mission of adequate national security.

Marge and I like to invest where the dividends are long term.

Its kind of a broad futuristic question because first of all historically, you look back and you realize that financial resources restore the longevity of any association because there are so many variables that affect income—membership and so forth. So, by creating Resource Development we will provide a perpetuity, so to speak, a source of income for all of the necessary expenses and expenditures that need to be made for future endeavors as well as current maintenance expenses that will ensure the long term and basically indefinite survival of the association. So that it can continue to do its mission and to serve the citizens of the country and its members without being endangered by economic fluctuations and membership changes that may severely go one way or another at times.