[2] The Board of Directors and Senior Management of the National Monuments Foundation includes Rodney Mims Cook, Jr. (president), Cullen Hammond, Rawson Haverty, Jr., Pamela Rollins, Robert Tolleson, Arol Wolford, Sally Singletary, Lou Glenn, Colin Amery, Tommy Bagwell, Richard H. Driehaus, Susan Eisenhower, Tom Glenn, Remar Sutton, Priscilla Roosevelt, Lovette Russell, John Addison, Carolyn Lee Wills, and Tom Wolfe.

The National Monuments Foundation is consulting with the Adams Presidential Library and Memorial Foundation for a memorial to commemorate the second and sixth presidents of the United States and their wives, and the National Civic Art Society for a memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, both in Washington, D.C.[citation needed] The National Monuments Foundation is also involved in an effort to re-establish Mims Park, an original Olmsted Brothers designed park in the English Avenue and Vine City neighborhood in downtown Atlanta.

His mother, Bettijo, moved and then restored the antebellum historic plantation Tullie Smith House to the grounds of the Atlanta History Center.

[citation needed] A graduate of The Lovett School, Cook received a BA degree from Washington and Lee University.

[6] Cook's organization, the National Monuments Foundation, received the 2006 Palladio Award for best new public space in the United States for the Peace and Justice Gate and Plaza.