FOUNDATION NEWS, No. 2/Fall 2007 (October 2007)

Top 10 Reasons to Make an End of Year Gift to the CGSC Foundation

There are many worthy organizations requesting your end of year gift. Here are some compelling reasons you should consider investing in the vision of the Command and General Staff College Foundation.

1. Supporting the Army’s commitment to develop Leaders for our Nation

2. Creating an incomparable margin of excellence that enriches and uplifts the educational experience for everyone who attend its programs

3. Setting standards of excellence for the faculty and students that creates a program and uses a facility without peer

4. Developing the intellectual centerpiece of the military committed to winning wars and winning the peace.

5. Help ensure our military is better equipped to respond to the new and unique environmental and operational challenges of a post-9/11 era.

At the same time…..

6. Your gift can significantly reduce your 2007 income tax liability, if made before December 31, 2007.

7. Your gift of cash is fully tax-deductible to a maximum of 50% of your adjusted gross income.

8. Your gift of appreciated stock will help you avoid capital gains tax on the stock’s increased value. Also, you will be able to claim a deduction on your income tax for the full fair market value of the stock at the time you gifted it.

9. Making a gift of real estate also will help you avoid capital gains tax and the full fair market value of the property is tax-deductible.

10.If you are 70 or older, the Pension Protection Act, which expires at the end of 2007, will allow you to make direct gifts of up to $100,000 from your IRA to the Command and General Staff College Foundation, tax-free!