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National Library Workers Day

Today, April 6, is National Library Workers Day. The CGSC Foundation would like to say a special “Thank You!” to Sierra Hochstatter, Community ...

Foundation celebrates Month of the Military Child

April is Month of the Military Child. For many military families, their time at Fort Leavenworth is a respite from multiple deployments and time away ...

CGSC Foundation gift shop features local artists

March is National Craft Month. The Craft & Hobby Association created National Craft Month in 1994 to help people rediscover and learn about the ...

Arter-Rowland National Security Forum honors National Vietnam War Veterans Day

The third presentation of the Arter-Rowland National Security Forum was conducted March 29, 2021 in an online conference platform. The program was ...

Medal of Honor Day 2021

Today we recognize and honor the heroism and sacrifice of those who have received the Medal of Honor – the highest and most prestigious award for ...

CGSC Foundation supports absolutely incredible kids!

The third Thursday in March is Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®! Today is a day to celebrate kids and to tell the young people in your life what makes ...

Foundation kicks off 2021 Wreaths Across America campaign

The CGSC Foundation announces its second year of engagement with the national Wreaths Across America to remember our nation’s fallen heroes during the ...

Scholarship Program application window closed

The application window for the 2021 CGSC Foundation's annual competitive scholarship program closed at midnight March 1. The Foundation is now in ...

Scholarship Program application window closes soon

The CGSC Foundation recently announced the second year of its competitive scholarship program for immediate family and grandchildren of U.S. Army ...

History on display in the Foundation’s gift shop

In the CGSC Foundation’s office and gift shop in the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, there’s a World War I historical display provided by ...

Foundation continues support to CARL in 2021

The CGSC Foundation donated supplies and books to the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library on Jan. 28, 2021, as part of their continuing support ...

Arter-Rowland National Security Forum features presentation on NATO

The second presentation of the Arter-Rowland National Security Forum was conducted Jan. 19, 2021 in an online conference platform. Dr. John R. ...

CGSC Foundation Scholarship Program kicks off second year with new partner

The CGSC Foundation recently announced the second year of its competitive scholarship program for immediate family and grandchildren of U.S. Army ...

2020 Year In Review

It's not a stretch to say that most of us are happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. It was a difficult year. Still, it wasn't all bad. The CGSC ...

Foundation wraps up 2020 participation in Wreaths Across America

On Dec. 19, 2020, the CGSC Foundation participated in the annual laying of wreaths on veterans’ graves in the Fort Leavenworth National ...

Foundation hosts holiday appreciation luncheon

The CGSC Foundation hosted its annual holiday “Friends of the Foundation Appreciation Luncheon” for its suppliers, providers and other partners on ...

2020 Foundation ornament now available

The CGSC Foundation’s traditional holiday ornament series continues in 2020 with the release of the Zais Park Gazebo Ornament earlier this week. The ...

Follow-up on Giving Tuesday 2020 – THANK YOU ALL!

This year's #GivingTuesday campaign was a rousing success, and we have YOU to thank for it. YOU donated $7,794.64. With our matching donations, that ...

‘The ultimate high ground’ subject of latest Brown-Bag

Thomas A. Gray discussed the topic of the domain of space and interagency operations at the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture on Nov. 19, in ...

Foundation staffer participates in library reading program

CGSC Foundation Director of Operations Lora Morgan recently participated in the Combined Arms Research Library's (CARL) Community Reads program. In a ...

Celebrate National Book Month!

October is National Book Month! The importance of the written word cannot be overstated. The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College has long been ...

Brown-bag series kicks off with DIA briefing

The first presentation of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series for CGSC academic year 2021 was conducted Oct. 6, 2020, in Marshall Auditorium in ...

NBAF topic of inaugural Arter-Rowland National Security Forum

The inaugural virtual presentation of the Arter-Rowland National Security Forum was conducted today, Sept. 23, 2020, using an online video conference ...

Foundation welcomes new trustees in August board meeting

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The CGSC Foundation board of trustees unanimously voted in nine new trustees during the Aug. 20 board meeting in ...

Former trustee arranges donations to Fort Leavenworth family programs

Former CGSC Foundation trustee Mike Meyer, made a donation of children’s books, hygiene products and confectionary items to the CGSC Foundation on ...

CGSOC Class of 2021 kicks off with flag ceremony Sept. 8

The Command and General Staff Officers Course 2021 began Sept. 8 at Fort Leavenworth with the International Military Student Flag Ceremony followed by ...

International officers attend CGSOC in Europe for first time

For the first time in history, the 7th Intermediate Level Education Detachment located in Grafenwoehr, Germany, is hosting international students for ...

Throwback Thursday: Fisher House chairman receives CGSC Foundation’s Distinguished Leadership Award

TBT – The Command and General Staff College Foundation presented Mr. Kenneth Fisher, chairman and CEO of the Fisher House Foundation, with the ...

Throwback Thursday: Inaugural NSRT program conducted in November 2007

TBT- The CGSC Foundation and the Command and General Staff College conducted the inaugural National Security Roundtable Program in November ...

Throwback Thursday: Gen. Hugh Shelton receives CGSC Foundation’s Distinguished Leadership Award

TBT – The Command and General Staff College Foundation presented retired General Hugh Shelton with the Foundation’s 2011 Distinguished Leadership ...

Foundation book donation supports FMWR

The CGSC Foundation recently donated a small collection of books to the Fort Leavenworth Garrison to be used as prizes in an upcoming FMWR Family Fun ...

Throwback Thursday: Ross Perot receives CGSC Foundation’s Distinguished Leadership Award

TBT – The Command and General Staff College Foundation presented Mr. Ross Perot with the Foundation’s 2010 Distinguished Leadership Award at a dinner ...

Extending a thank you

CGSC Foundation President/CEO Rod Cox and Co-Founder/Chief Development Officer Bob Ulin presented Dr. Jeff Colyer, the Foundation’s “Person of the ...

CGSOC Class of 2020 Individual Awards

Prior to the CGSOC Class of 2020 virtual graduation ceremony on June 12, CGSS Director Col. Scott Green conducted an in-person awards ceremony on June ...

Virtual ceremonies mark the CGSOC Class of 2020

Amid the restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic traditional Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) graduation ceremonies at Fort ...

SAMS graduates 158 students

Lt. Col. Sebastian BeckerLt. Col. E. Aaron BradyLt. Col. Steven HawkinsLt. Col. Flavio Caula ReisLt. Col. Thomas SprangerLt Col Cyrille TiberghienLt. ...

Foundation launches new online Gift Shop

The CGSC Foundation has launched a new online Gift Shop to offer unique gifts and logo apparel to the CGSC family and friends. Shoppers can visit the ...

Happy 10th Anniversary to the Simons Center!

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (April 21, 2020) This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Simons Center and the work the Center does in the ...

CGSC Foundation announces 2020 scholarship program winners

The CGSC Foundation announces the winners of its inaugural competitive scholarship program. Austin Shoffner, a freshman at Texas A&M University, ...

InterAgency Journal 11-1

Welcome to this first edition of the InterAgency Journal for 2020. This year marks a milestone anniversary for the Simons Center and the work the ...

Brown-bag focuses on USAID’s mission to build self-reliance

The eighth presentation of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series for CGSC academic year 2020 was conducted March 12, in the Arnold Conference Room ...

KC Centurions visit CGSC

More than 70 members of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Centurions Leadership Program visited Fort Leavenworth and the U.S. Army Command ...

CGSC leaders host TASS Advisory Council Meeting

Leadership of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College hosted the 2020 TASS Advisory Council Meeting (TACM) in the Arnold Conference Room of ...

Brown-bag lecture features speakers from KC FBI Field Office

The seventh presentation of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series took place on February 25, and featured two agents from the Federal Bureau of ...

Simons Center plans for the future with CGSC faculty

Interagency faculty members from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College met with CGSC Foundation leadership at the Simons Center for ...

Foundation conducts first board meeting of 2020

The CGSC Foundation conducted its first quarterly board of trustees meeting of 2020 on Feb. 21, at the offices of Spencer Fane in downtown Kansas ...

Foundation trustee spearheads book donation to post library

As part of the Rotary Reads program, Overland Park Rotary Club member and CGSC Foundation Trustee Mike Meyer arranged for the donation of more than ...

Foundation hosts KARL visit to Fort Leavenworth

On Feb. 10, the CGSC Foundation hosted a visit of 30 members of the 2019-2021 class of the Kansas Agricultural and Rural Leadership (KARL) program ...

Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer speaks at latest brown-bag lecture

Mr. Ralph Erwin, Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer, spoke on the roles and missions of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Jan. ...

CGSC Foundation scholarship program application period open

The application period is now open for the CGSC Foundation's competitive scholarship program. Eligible students who are children or grandchildren of ...

Foundation supports ArmyU holiday party

The staff of Army University at Fort Leavenworth conducted its annual holiday party Dec. 20, 2019 at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. ...

Foundation conducts holiday reception in honor of donors

The CGSC Foundation conducted a major donor holiday reception on Dec. 17, 2019, at the Mission Hills Country Club in Mission Hills, Kansas. Many ...

Foundation hosts holiday appreciation luncheon

The CGSC Foundation conducted its annual holiday appreciation luncheon on Dec. 12, 2019 at the Frontier Conference Center on Fort Leavenworth. The ...

Interagency faculty support Sergeants Major Course

CGSC interagency faculty members traveled to Fort Bliss, Texas, Dec. 6, 2019, to teach Sergeants Major Course students at the U.S. Army Sergeants ...

Defense Intelligence Agency topic of latest brown-bag lecture

The fifth presentation of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series for CGSC academic year 2020 was conducted Dec. 10, 2019, in the Arnold Conference ...

Ambassador Canavan conducts first visit to CGSC

The Academic Year 2020 CGSC Foundation and DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy, Career Minister (Ret.) Ambassador Katherine Canavan conducted her ...

Foundation elects two new trustees, approves strategic plan during quarterly meeting

The CGSC Foundation conducted its fourth quarter board of trustees meeting on Dec. 4, 2019, at the offices of Spencer Fane in downtown Kansas ...

Support the Foundation by shopping on AmazonSmile

Giving to the CGSC Foundation has never been easier than this holiday season... or all year long. If you are doing any online shopping with the ...

CGSC Foundation announces new scholarship program

The CGSC Foundation announces the launch of a new competitive scholarship program for children and grandchildren of U.S. Army Command and General ...

KC Federal Executive Board director presents at IA Brown-Bag Lecture

Mr. Larry A. Hisle, the executive director of the Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board (FEB), spoke about the many, many programs of the ...

Former Foundation president Hyrum W. Smith dies at age 76

Former CGSC Foundation President Hyrum W. Smith, 76, died Monday, Nov. 17, 2019, after a battle with pancreatic cancer for the last several ...

Kids in Foundation-sponsored reading programs present thank you

Nora Walker, the community library technician at the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Reasearch Library (center in the photo), visited the CGSC Foundation ...

Area 51: Very Secret, Very Cool, but not Aliens

As part of the Foundation’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Brent Geary, Ph.D., historian with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Center for the ...

CGSC Foundation unveils 2019 ornament

The CGSC Foundation debuted the new holiday ornament design for 2019 during a reception at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) on ...

Latest brown-bag lecture focuses on CIA

Mr. Kevin Rousseau, the CGSC Distinguished Chair for National Intelligence Studies and a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), led a ...

Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago officers join International Hall of Fame

(Katie Peterson, Fort Leavenworth Lamp) Two new members were inducted into the Command and General Staff College International Hall of Fame in a ...

Fall NSRT program focuses on China

CGSC’s Command and General Staff School faculty from the Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations (DJIMO) and the CGSC Foundation ...

CGSC international students participate in UN Peacekeepers forum in KC

Four International Military Students (IMS) from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) took part in a panel discussion on “Protecting ...

Space lecture draws large crowd

Thomas A. Gray, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Liaison to the Combined Arms Center and Army University, addressed a packed room on ...

Ambassador Canavan selected as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Diplomacy

The CGSC Foundation and DACOR (Diplomatic and Consular Officers, Retired) announce the selection of retired Ambassador Katherine “Kate” Canavan as the ...

ROMEOs, Greater KC Community Foundation leaders visit CGSC

On Aug. 30, the CGSC Foundation hosted the ROMEOs from Overland Park, Kansas, along with two members of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ...

InterAgency Journal 10-3

The third issue of the InterAgency Journal for 2019 is the result of a partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s Department ...

Foundation recognizes local hotel business

On Aug. 26, Foundation President/CEO Rod Cox visited the Fairfield Inn and Suites and TownePlace Suites of Leavenworth to present a certificate of ...

State Department presentation kicks off brown-bag lecture series

Matthew Roth, the Distinguished Chair for Diplomatic Studies at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, delivered the first lecture for ...

Former AFRICOM commander delivers 2019 Colin Powell lecture

Gen. Carter F. Ham, U.S. Army, Ret., the former commander of U.S. Africa Command and the current president/CEO of the Association of the U.S. Army ...

Pioneer Services continues support to the Foundation

On Aug. 1, Scott Cahill, director of corporate communications for Pioneer Services, presented a donation to CGSC Foundation President/CEO Rod Cox to ...

International Flag Ceremony opens CGSC Academic Year 2020

The Command and General Staff College opened Academic Year 2020 with the International Flag Ceremony for Command and General Staff Officers Course ...

Interagency Leadership handbook on sale now

The CGSC Foundation Press presents A Practitioner's Handbook for Interagency Leadership William J. Davis, Jr., Ph.D. – Author Janet K. Benini and ...

H. Ross Perot, Sr., CGSC Foundation’s benefactor, dies at 89

(Special report by Bob Ulin, Founding CEO) At a CGSC Foundation board of trustees meeting in 2007, Mark “Ranger” Jones told me that he knew Ross Perot ...

Wentworth Military Academy alumni tour CGSC

On June 28, the CGSC Foundation, along with Mr. Ralph Erwin, the National Geospacial-Intelligence Agency liaison to the U.S. Army Training and ...

NSRT alumni group tours post, College

On June 26, the CGSC Foundation hosted Michael Lintecum and Kevin Hancock, both of whom are alumni of the Foundation’s National Security Roundtable ...

Army announces Expert Soldier Badge

In conjunction with the U.S. Army’s 244th Birthday, the Army announced a new proficiency badge, called the Expert Soldier Badge. The ESB is ...

Class of 2019 marks 125 years of international grads

(Katie Peterson/Fort Leavenworth Lamp) More than 100 international officers, representing 87 different countries, received the Command and General ...

TRADOC Commander challenges CGSC graduates

In commencement ceremonies on June 14, 2019, at the Lewis and Clark Center, General Stephen J. Townsend, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Training ...

Civil Affairs officer receives top SOF student award

Maj. Matthew W. Krein received the LTC Ronald C. Ward Distinguished Special Operations Forces (SOF) Student Award for the Command and General Staff ...

New ArmyU Provost-CGSC Deputy Commandant assumes duty

Brig. Gen. Stephen J. Maranian became the fourth Provost of Army University during an Assumption of Responsibility ceremony Jun. 10, 2019 at the ...

CARL kicks off summer reading program

(Katie Peterson/Fort Leavenworth Lamp) Children of all ages played with plastic building blocks, took a photo in front of a green screen, had a ...

SAMS Class of 2019 graduates 156

The U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies graduated 158 officers from two courses on May 23 at 9 a.m. in the Eisenhower Auditorium of the ...

Future leaders graduate ILE course in Grafenwoehr

Thirty-eight students from U.S. Army Europe, Central and Africa graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officers Course Common Core May ...

InterAgency Journal 10-2

The second issue of the InterAgency Journal for 2019 is the result of a partnership with the National Defense University's Center for the Study of ...

KC Federal Executive Board leader presents at CGSC

On May 8, in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center at Fort Leavenworth, Mr. Larry A. Hisle, executive director of the Greater ...

Foundation hosts Visiting Professor of Diplomacy

Ambassador (Retired) Eunice Reddick made her second trip to the Kansas City area, April 22-26, as the CGSC Foundation’s DACOR Visiting Professor of ...

Chiefs Ambassadors visit CGSC

CGSC Foundation President/CEO Rod Cox, along with Col. Scott Green, director of CGSC’s Department of Army Tactics, led the Kansas City Chiefs ...

SAMS alum, NDU professor conducts book signing

On April 17, the CGSC Foundation co-sponsored with AAFES a book signing at the Lewis and Clark Center bookstore with Lt. Col. David Oakley, an ...

SAMS leads charge in spring NSRT program

The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) and the CGSC Foundation cohosted a National Security ...

3 officers join International Hall of Fame

(Katie Peterson/Fort Leavenworth Lamp) Three international officers were inducted into the Command and General Staff College International Hall of ...

CIA subject of latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

The Mr. Kevin Rousseau, the CGSC Distinguished Chair for National Intelligence Studies and a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), provided ...

Leaders of Tomorrow Symposium features ‘Hotel Impossible’ producer-host

The CGSC Foundation, in conjunction with Park University, hosted the Leaders of Tomorrow symposium on March 29, at the Park University ...

10th Annual Ethics Symposium focuses on LSCO

The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College conducted the 10th annual Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium on March 25 at the Lewis and Clark Center. ...

Former trustee brings associates to post for Walk and Talk tour

On March 7, the CGSC Foundation hosted Tim Carlin, a former member of the Foundation board of trustees, and four of his executive friends for a visit ...

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