Get the new 2025 Museum Challenge Coin – between now and September 30, join our Plankowner crew or upgrade your current gift and we’ll send you our latest Museum Challenge Coin honoring the Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation (ATON) mission and the USCGC Smilax, the “Queen of the Fleet.”
The ATON mission is essential to maritime safety, economic stability, and national security, ensuring the safe and efficient movement of commercial and recreational vessels by maintaining buoys, waterways, and other critical navigation markers.
If you are a current Plankowner please upgrade your gift here and we’ll send you the 2025 Museum Challenge Coin.
Simply establish a recurring monthly donation of $5, $10, $25, $50 or an amount you deem appropriate ($5 minimum) and maintain your support of the project through to completion (anticipated in 2026). Decide whether you want to contribute with a credit card or through your Coast Guard allotment.
By Credit Card: Sign up online today! Please call our office at 860-443-4200 if you have any questions or concerns.
By Coast Guard Allotment: Please review the information below to complete your allotment. This is a 2-step process. Once we receive your first gift, we will send an acknowledgment letter with a temporary Plankowner certificate. If you have any questions, please contact us at (860) 443-4200 or email us donate@coastguardmuseum.org.
Step 1: Please email the following information to the National Coast Guard Museum Association (donate@coastguardmuseum.org) so that we know you intend to become a Plankowner using your Coast Guard Allotment. We need to have your contact information so we can complete your Plankowner registration. Please include your name as you would like it displayed on your Plankowner Certificate.
Step 2. After you have emailed your information to us, please follow one of the options below to contact the U.S. Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center (CG PPC) or log in to Direct Access to complete setting up your voluntary allotment to the Museum.
Please follow one of the options below to complete your allotment set up. If you need to contact CG PPC please call 866-772-8724 or ppc-dg-customercare@uscg.mil
Option 1. If you have previously accessed the CG PPC Direct Access website, please log in and request a Voluntary Deduction. Select “CG Museum Assoc Dues” if you are retired or “Association Dues” for active duty from the drop-down menu.
Option 2. If you have never accessed the CG PPC Direct Access website, please visit the following PPC RAS website to review the user guide for FIRST TIME USERS – Initial Direct Access Sign On – https://www.dcms.uscg.mil/ppc/ras/gp/
Option 3. If you cannot access the self-service system, please complete the CG-7221, Retired Allotment Authorization form and email it to ppc-dg-customercare@uscg.mil. The Museum Association Blanket Code is: 00080
Note: Requests received outside of Direct Access (DA) Self-Service have a processing time of 60 days after receipt.
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