Helping Young People Get Ahead South Carolina Arms Collectors Association Scholarships reward students for academic success and civic responsibility. In 2006, Colonel Lew Ballington, together
make sure we were
with the South Carolina Arms Collectors
doing business the way
Association, created a scholarship fund for
it should be done.” Since
dependents of current or deceased members
then, the Foundation
of the Association. Their goal was simple: to
has provided guidance
help young people get ahead in life.
and support to the
The South Carolina Arms Collectors Association is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote the lawful collection,
Association, helping to manage the scholarship process.
possession, study and enjoyment of firearms,
With its scholarship
other weapons and related items, both
fund, SC Arms
antique and modern. The Association works
Collectors Association
to promote safe and lawful use of firearms
seeks to reward
through public exhibitions. Their scholarship
students who make
provides academic scholarships to members,
academic progress
or dependents of members, of the Association.
and display civic
south carolina arms collectors association scholarship recipients
responsibility through
Yet it is clear that the scholarship
The SC Arms Collectors
involvement in their
has impacted not only the lives
Association’s scholarships
community. It also
of those that receive from it,
takes financial hardship
but those who created it. When
have touched many lives,
into account when
asked about his experience with
making selections. The SC Arms Collectors
giving, Colonel Ballington says that he
awarding 21 scholarships
Association’s scholarships have touched
doesn’t expect anything in return, but that
totaling $19,250 since the
many lives, awarding 21 scholarships totaling
he has developed a true appreciation of
$19,250 since the fund’s inception. Colonel
what young people can do. Now, thanks to
fund’s inception.
Ballington recalls one scholarship recipient
his generosity, and the generosity of the SC
in particular, a bright young woman whose
Arms Collectors Association, more students
In 2013, the Association created an endowed
father had passed away and whose mother
in our community will have the resources to
scholarship fund at the Community
was very sick, and how the scholarship
reach their great potential.
Foundation, as Colonel Ballington says, “to
helped make college possible for her.
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