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The Benefits Of Service

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The Thanksgiving of 2015, an interesting day that will never be forgotten by Greeley, Colorado resident Terri Keeney. While talking to a friend, who at the time was concerned with her inability to afford a flight for her son to visit home for the holidays, Terri became perplexed with the situation. The lady's son at the time, a private in the U.S. Army was unable to afford the airfare on his own. Splitting the cost wasn't an option thanks to the rise in airfare costs that annually occurs during the holiday season. At the time, Terri recalls thinking “This isn't OK” then said that her initial reaction was wanting to act, like creating a nonprofit, but she then remembered learning how overwhelming the process of creating a nonprofit is …show more content…

If this to you sounds unjust, you're in a lengthy line of people that think this way. This is when Terri along with Pam made the collective decision of acting as an alternative of simply talking about it. After the holidays of 2015 is when Terri met with Pam to start the research on the available resources active duty members needing to travel. According to Terri, the they came across only two nonprofits that help military fly home, the only problem with the two organizations was, they only flew them home for the holidays. Immediately the two of them found one way they could differ from the other two organizations, no limit to the holidays was the key. The two met another time later that same month to start the process of creating their own nonprofit organization called, Helping Heroes Fly. According to Terri, it took nine days to fill out then file all the needed paperwork for the state along with federal levels. Finally, it was in February 2016 when the two received a letter containing the blessing of the Internal Revenue Service to start the nonprofit organization but that was not the end. According to the letter, they were not able to commence until they were in the IRS website which according to the IRS should have been a quick process, well it was not. Nothing changed until reaching Senator Cory Gardner, who contacted the IRS on behalf of the organization that the organization appeared in the IRS website, this was in

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