Have you seen us lately? A look at Summer 2025
Have you seen us lately?
It’s been a busy summer for the Coast Guard Foundation. But sometimes when we’re busy, we forget to share it on our website so all of our CGF community can see what we’ve been up to.
Here are some highlights from the last few months:
Our community showed incredible support for our virtual Memorial Day Run to Remember, including Coast Guard Cyber Command with their on-base run. Events like these honor our fallen heroes and keep their legacy alive. Most recently, the City of Rockland, Maine, hosted a Run to Remember on August 22.
We said yes to 255 Coast Guard Foundation scholarships! That’s a record-year with $925,000 going to help Coast Guard dependent children go to college and trade school.
More than 900 Coast Guard kids went to summer camp this year with Coast Guard Foundation support. We saw pictures and notes about just about every kind of camp you could imagine – day camp, sleep-away camp, art, sports, STEM, Lego, horse riding, swim lessons, zoo camp, scouting, sailing and dance. Plus new Chromebooks and e-readers to help several families boost their technology.
We spent lots of time with the crew of the Eagle on the West Coast, including stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Astoria and Seattle, introducing the Coast Guard to new supporters.
After the Kerrville floods, we visited with Air Station Corpus Christi and Air Station Houston crews. Together with the Gary Sinise Foundation, we provided a nourishing and enriching meal for crews to take a break and be recognized for their work and service to our country.
The crews of the Cutter Stone and Cutter James were feted at our annual Tribute to the Coast Guard in our Nation’s Capital back in June. The crews were recognized for groundbreaking drug interdiction operations in the Eastern Pacific that seized more than $1 billion in drugs.
On Coast Guard Day, August 4, Savannah-area units gathered for a full-day of rest, fun, and community-building activities at a local bowling alley. The Coast Guard shared that members from every local unit stopped by and participated.
The Coast Guard commissioned two new cutters in Alaska this month: the Cutter Storis in Juneau and the Cutter Earl Cunningham in Kodiak. The Coast Guard Foundation celebrated by giving each crew $5,000 for their morale fund, supporting these essential teams as they take on challenging missions in some of the world’s most demanding waters.
Our work is possible because of the generosity of our Coast Guard Foundation community. Thank you for making it happen! Here’s to carrying the energy of a great summer into a strong finish for the year!