The following is a listing of possible program areas of service for the foundation. Within each specific area - there will be a variety of ways to help -
1. Children
2. Families
3. Education
4. Hunger
5. Housing
6. Disabled Persons
7. The Elderly
8. Disaster Relief
9. Veterans
10. Hospitals - Nursing Homes
11. Crime
12. Animal Rights
13. Culture - The Arts
14. Disadvantaged - Minority Persons
15. Women's Rights
16. Religion
17. Medical
18. The Environment
19. Land Preservation
20. Assistance to Foreign Countries.
Possible Specific Charitable Programs
The following is a list of some possible programs for your foundation - - it is only a partial list - some suggestions for you to consider - in your process of deciding upon - the mission of your foundation -
The ways in which a foundation can make a difference - - is only limited by the imagination of the directors or trustees of the foundation.
Choosing your charitable mission may take time - there is no deadline - no time limit - you may want to study - and try certain programs - before making your decision - this is good - this will help -
Whether it takes - two days - two months - two years - is not crucial - what is important is that your mission reflect your passion - your conviction - your choice of one or a few programs where -
With your - Time - Talent -
Collaboration - Money
You can - make a difference.
A listing of some possible programs by areas of interest.
Children
1. Help in various ways for children who have been abused - physically or mentally
2. Success by 6 Program - being sure that all children receive the proper education and medical care they need by age 6
3. Being an advocate - to pursue and protect the legal rights of children in various areas
4. Foster, encourage and promote the adoption of children - both from the United States or foreign countries
5. Enrich the lives of children who are forced to live in foster homes because of family breakdowns.
Families
1. Provide assistance - guidance - support to families to help them leave the welfare rolls and become self-sufficient
2. Create a network of assistance to a family in crisis - because of a fire - sickness - or any reason - to help the family "weather the storm"
3. Develop ideas and programs to help families at the poverty level or just above it to increase family income and enrich their lives
4. A holiday giving program - Thanksgiving - Christmas - Easter - Fourth of July - to give gifts - food clothes, etc. to families in need
5. Create a foster family program - where one family that has all it needs - "adopts" another family that does not - to provide help where and when needed.
Education
1. Encourage the teacher in schools with annual awards and recognition of their efforts
2. Develop a core of volunteers to involve the community in extensive volunteer help for the schools
3. Fund a series of motivational speakers for the students to encourage their success in life
4. Seek out and provide scholarships to "average" students - who would otherwise not continue education - not only to college but to a trade - profession
5. Create a community volunteer program where students, as part of their education, become volunteers in charitable activities in the community.
Hunger
1. Seek out families in your community that are hungry - and find ways to solve that problem for them
2. Create a collection and distribution center for food to be distributed to those in need
3. Fund a study of how food that is being wasted and thrown away could be collected and given to those that are hungry
4. Sponsor and fund an event for charity - a walk for hunger - to raise funds for this need
5. Study and publicize the facts of hunger - in your community - state - nation or the world to raise public awareness.
Housing
1. Study and create ways to provide adequate housing for low income families
2. Build and support a shelter for the homeless
3. Provide suitable temporary housing for families in crisis - from fires - abuse - neglect, etc.
4. Create and provide housing for immigrants moving to this country who have very little
5. Enrich the living conditions of those living in sub-standard housing - with new furniture - new paint - -- improvements.
Disabled Persons
1. Training and supplying of pets to disabled persons - dogs for assistance to disabled persons
2. Providing mentors and friends to youths who are disabled
3. Creating or assisting in programs for disabled persons provided by organizations
4. Enriching the lives of disabled persons - with material help - or programs, cultural events or sports they can become involved in
5. Assistance to any organization or family that is caring for a disabled person.
The Elderly
1. Build, develop, and improve in the community - community drop-in centers for the elderly
2. Develop programs where the elderly can find a meaning and purpose for their lives
3. Establish programs on a wide scale to enrich the lives of the elderly in nursing homes
4. Create an "adopt a grandparent" program for children to "adopt" and be a friend to the lonely elderly person
5. Be a champion for the legal rights of the elderly - who do not have the power to protect themselves.
Disaster Relief
1. Collect food, clothes, supplies and other goods to be shipped to areas hit by natural disasters
2. Organize a community fund drive or event to collect funds to assist areas hit by a disaster
3. Establish a body of community support to help any family hit by a fire or other disaster
4. Establish a fund to provide help in anyway for one full year to any family struck by a natural disaster
5. Study the ways in which groups of persons in other countries can prevent or minimize the effect of a natural disasters on themselves.
Veterans
1. Become a strong advocate for the rights of veterans in any number of ways
2. Create a veteran's center in the community to give them a place to meet and benefit
3. Find ways to enrich the lives of disabled veterans living at home or in veterans' hospitals
4. Create a wide ranging national program for all citizens to be aware of and appreciate the contributions of veterans to freedom
5. Be a strong force to establish volunteers to veterans in the community to enrich their lives.
Hospitals - Nursing Homes
1. Become an advocate for patient rights and benefits not being met
2. Research and study ways in which alternatives to nursing home care could be established and maintained
3. Be a catalyst to organize a community to become aware of, and demand the best care from, hospitals and nursing homes in their community
4. Seek ways to enrich the lives of persons in hospitals - nursing homes by gifts - visits - other ways
5. Study and publicize the ways in which government, community and private money could be used to provide better care.
Crime
1. Initiate and organize meetings in the community between opposing groups to ease tensions - solve problems
2. Provide seed money and support to organize after school programs for youths in the community
3. Establish and implement a strong program to be presented in schools to discourage the use of drugs
4. Establish in communities - a youth service provider network to identify youths - headed for trouble to be referred to agencies for guidance and assistance
5. Research the ways in which a community and its people can help to prevent crime in that community.
Animal Rights
1. Research and be an advocate for the preservation of spotted dolphins or any other endangered species
2. Research and be an advocate for the preservation of any land area serving as a habitat for animals
3. Seek to increase the number of animal shelters and community volunteers to protect animals
4. Create an awareness and seek to increase the number of families willing to adopt a pet and provide a good home
5. Seek to find practical ways in which pets can enrich our lives - pets for the elderly - visits to hospitals - to schools.
Culture - The Arts
1. An orchestra - singers - any group supported to present concerts - plays - in a community
2. Owning and supporting a theater or other location to be used to sponsor and present cultural programs for the benefit of the community
3. A music program to promote and spread the joy of music to children of all ages
4. Organize and support a museum for art - whaling - aquarium - or anything else
5. Study completely a community and its existing resources to find ways to use such resources to increase cultural events for its citizens.
Disadvantaged - Minority Persons
1. To reach out to minority groups in a community to find and meet their needs
2. To become an advocate nationally for any minority - or disadvantaged persons whose rights are being violated
3. To provide the seed money and be the catalyst to establish programs for the minority groups
4. To study and be an advocate for the rights of minority groups being exploited by sub-standard working conditions and wages
5. Be an active force to promote and improve the relationship in a community of all ethnic groups with one another.
Women's Rights
1. Being a national advocate for women's rights that are not being protected
2. Study and create ways in which restraining orders can be made more effective for women
3. Provide support in a variety of ways for any shelter for battered women
4. Seek and establish safe housing - temporary or even long-term for abused women
5. Create a community system - of legal - social and - professional - help and support for women in crisis situations.
Religion
1. Loans - andgrants to new churches being established in communities to help them become established
2. Distribution of religious books and religious educational material to the public
3. Spreading the message that a return to faith and morality are needed to build a successful country
4. Assistance to missions in foreign countries to help them be more effective in their work
5. Attacking a specific cause of the moral breakdown of society in the modern world.
Medical
1. Study and support research for one medical problem to seek its cure
2. Working for one area of the population, e.g. pre-school children - the elderly to be sure that they are receiving adequate medical care
3. Being an active supporter of one area of medical assistance - e.g. in the lives of persons afflicted with one specific medical condition
4. Become an advocate for proper assistance and research by the government and others in one area of medical needs
5. Become the catalyst for more active fund raising events to increase dollars to organizations providing help and assistance for medical needs.
The Environment
1. Study and become an advocate for the correction of one or more abuses of the environment
2. Organize within the community specific steps that can be taken by everyone to protect the environment
3. Study and become a motivating force to have business improve steps to protect the environment
4. Organize grass roots efforts on a large scale of persons who will become advocates for protection of the environment
5. Study and become an advocate for the government to provide more dollars and enact more laws - for the protection of the environment.
Land Preservation
1. Organize more or more land trusts to buy and hold and preserve open land in communities
2. Study and advocate the ways in which local - state - national governments can be more effective in land preservation
3. Organize and foster local community organizations to mobilize community forces and opinions and dollars to preserve open land
4. Study and advocate and promote effective ways in which individual land owners can preserve their land for the future benefit of generations.
5. Create and organize a national organization working towards the preservation of open land for future generations.
Assistance to Foreign Countries
1. Working to support and increase medical assistance in poor countries - by initiating and supporting medical providers
2. Creating ways to increase income of the populations of persons living in poverty
3. Providing support and creating better living conditions in various ways such as water - food - housing in sub-standard areas
4. Becoming an advocate for business to provide and pay better wages for work done in foreign countries
5. Being a catalyst to provide more volunteer help and support for persons living in poverty - by organizing and funding volunteer efforts in these countries.