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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 –<\/p>

1. Children<\/p>

2. Families<\/p>

3. Education<\/p>

4. Hunger<\/p>

5. Housing<\/p>

6. Disabled Persons<\/p>

7. The Elderly<\/p>

8. Disaster Relief<\/p>

9. Veterans<\/p>

10. Hospitals – Nursing Homes<\/p>

11. Crime<\/p>

12. Animal Rights<\/p>

13. Culture – The Arts<\/p>

14. Disadvantaged – Minority Persons<\/p>

15. Women's Rights<\/p>

16. Religion<\/p>

17. Medical<\/p>

18. The Environment<\/p>

19. Land Preservation<\/p>

20. Assistance to Foreign Countries.<\/p>

Possible Specific Charitable Programs<\/b><\/p>

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 –<\/p>

The ways in which a foundation can make a difference – – is only limited by the imagination of the directors or trustees of the foundation.<\/p>

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 –<\/p>

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 –<\/p>

With your – Time – Talent –<\/p>

Collaboration – Money<\/p>

You can – make a difference.<\/p>

A listing of some possible programs by areas of interest.<\/p>

Children<\/p>

1. Help in various ways for children who have been abused – physically or mentally<\/p>

2. Success by 6 Program – being sure that all children receive the proper education and medical care they need by age 6<\/p>

3. Being an advocate – to pursue and protect the legal rights of children in various areas<\/p>

4. Foster, encourage and promote the adoption of children – both from the United States or foreign countries<\/p>

5. Enrich the lives of children who are forced to live in foster homes because of family breakdowns.<\/p>

Families<\/p>

1. Provide assistance – guidance – support to families to help them leave the welfare rolls and become self-sufficient<\/p>

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"<\/p>

3. Develop ideas and programs to help families at the poverty level or just above it to increase family income and enrich their lives<\/p>

4. A holiday giving program – Thanksgiving – Christmas – Easter – Fourth of July – to give gifts – food clothes, etc. to families in need<\/p>

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.<\/p>

Education<\/p>

1. Encourage the teacher in schools with annual awards and recognition of their efforts<\/p>

2. Develop a core of volunteers to involve the community in extensive volunteer help for the schools<\/p>

3. Fund a series of motivational speakers for the students to encourage their success in life<\/p>

4. Seek out and provide scholarships to "average" students – who would otherwise not continue education – not only to college but to a trade – profession<\/p>

5. Create a community volunteer program where students, as part of their education, become volunteers in charitable activities in the community.<\/p>

Hunger<\/p>

1. Seek out families in your community that are hungry – and find ways to solve that problem for them<\/p>

2. Create a collection and distribution center for food to be distributed to those in need<\/p>

3. Fund a study of how food that is being wasted and thrown away could be collected and given to those that are hungry<\/p>

4. Sponsor and fund an event for charity – a walk for hunger – to raise funds for this need<\/p>

5. Study and publicize the facts of hunger – in your community – state – nation or the world to raise public awareness.<\/p>

Housing<\/p>

1. Study and create ways to provide adequate housing for low income families<\/p>

2. Build and support a shelter for the homeless<\/p>

3. Provide suitable temporary housing for families in crisis – from fires – abuse – neglect, etc.<\/p>

4. Create and provide housing for immigrants moving to this country who have very little<\/p>

5. Enrich the living conditions of those living in sub-standard housing – with new furniture – new paint – — improvements.<\/p>

Disabled Persons<\/p>

1. Training and supplying of pets to disabled persons – dogs for assistance to disabled persons<\/p>

2. Providing mentors and friends to youths who are disabled<\/p>

3. Creating or assisting in programs for disabled persons provided by organizations<\/p>

4. Enriching the lives of disabled persons – with material help – or programs, cultural events or sports they can become involved in<\/p>

5. Assistance to any organization or family that is caring for a disabled person.<\/p>

The Elderly<\/p>

1. Build, develop, and improve in the community – community drop-in centers for the elderly<\/p>

2. Develop programs where the elderly can find a meaning and purpose for their lives<\/p>

3. Establish programs on a wide scale to enrich the lives of the elderly in nursing homes<\/p>

4. Create an "adopt a grandparent" program for children to "adopt" and be a friend to the lonely elderly person<\/p>

5. Be a champion for the legal rights of the elderly – who do not have the power to protect themselves.<\/p>

Disaster Relief<\/p>

1. Collect food, clothes, supplies and other goods to be shipped to areas hit by natural disasters<\/p>

2. Organize a community fund drive or event to collect funds to assist areas hit by a disaster<\/p>

3. Establish a body of community support to help any family hit by a fire or other disaster<\/p>

4. Establish a fund to provide help in anyway for one full year to any family struck by a natural disaster<\/p>

5. Study the ways in which groups of persons in other countries can prevent or minimize the effect of a natural disasters on themselves.<\/p>

Veterans<\/p>

1. Become a strong advocate for the rights of veterans in any number of ways<\/p>

2. Create a veteran's center in the community to give them a place to meet and benefit<\/p>

3. Find ways to enrich the lives of disabled veterans living at home or in veterans' hospitals<\/p>

4. Create a wide ranging national program for all citizens to be aware of and appreciate the contributions of veterans to freedom<\/p>

5. Be a strong force to establish volunteers to veterans in the community to enrich their lives.<\/p>

Hospitals – Nursing Homes<\/p>

1. Become an advocate for patient rights and benefits not being met<\/p>

2. Research and study ways in which alternatives to nursing home care could be established and maintained<\/p>

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<\/p>

4. Seek ways to enrich the lives of persons in hospitals – nursing homes by gifts – visits – other ways<\/p>

5. Study and publicize the ways in which government, community and private money could be used to provide better care.<\/p>

Crime<\/p>

1. Initiate and organize meetings in the community between opposing groups to ease tensions – solve problems<\/p>

2. Provide seed money and support to organize after school programs for youths in the community<\/p>

3. Establish and implement a strong program to be presented in schools to discourage the use of drugs<\/p>

4. Establish in communities – a youth service provider network to identify youths – headed for trouble to be referred to agencies for guidance and assistance<\/p>

5. Research the ways in which a community and its people can help to prevent crime in that community.<\/p>

Animal Rights<\/p>

1. Research and be an advocate for the preservation of spotted dolphins or any other endangered species<\/p>

2. Research and be an advocate for the preservation of any land area serving as a habitat for animals<\/p>

3. Seek to increase the number of animal shelters and community volunteers to protect animals<\/p>

4. Create an awareness and seek to increase the number of families willing to adopt a pet and provide a good home<\/p>

5. Seek to find practical ways in which pets can enrich our lives – pets for the elderly – visits to hospitals – to schools.<\/p>

Culture – The Arts<\/p>

1. An orchestra – singers – any group supported to present concerts – plays – in a community<\/p>

2. Owning and supporting a theater or other location to be used to sponsor and present cultural programs for the benefit of the community<\/p>

3. A music program to promote and spread the joy of music to children of all ages<\/p>

4. Organize and support a museum for art – whaling – aquarium – or anything else<\/p>

5. Study completely a community and its existing resources to find ways to use such resources to increase cultural events for its citizens.<\/p>

Disadvantaged – Minority Persons<\/p>

1. To reach out to minority groups in a community to find and meet their needs<\/p>

2. To become an advocate nationally for any minority – or disadvantaged persons whose rights are being violated<\/p>

3. To provide the seed money and be the catalyst to establish programs for the minority groups<\/p>

4. To study and be an advocate for the rights of minority groups being exploited by sub-standard working conditions and wages<\/p>

5. Be an active force to promote and improve the relationship in a community of all ethnic groups with one another.<\/p>

Women's Rights<\/p>

1. Being a national advocate for women's rights that are not being protected<\/p>

2. Study and create ways in which restraining orders can be made more effective for women<\/p>

3. Provide support in a variety of ways for any shelter for battered women<\/p>

4. Seek and establish safe housing – temporary or even long-term for abused women<\/p>

5. Create a community system – of legal – social and – professional – help and support for women in crisis situations.<\/p>

Religion<\/p>

1. Loans – andgrants to new churches being established in communities to help them become established<\/p>

2. Distribution of religious books and religious educational material to the public<\/p>

3. Spreading the message that a return to faith and morality are needed to build a successful country<\/p>

4. Assistance to missions in foreign countries to help them be more effective in their work<\/p>

5. Attacking a specific cause of the moral breakdown of society in the modern world.<\/p>

Medical<\/p>

1. Study and support research for one medical problem to seek its cure<\/p>

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<\/p>

3. Being an active supporter of one area of medical assistance – e.g. in the lives of persons afflicted with one specific medical condition<\/p>

4. Become an advocate for proper assistance and research by the government and others in one area of medical needs<\/p>

5. Become the catalyst for more active fund raising events to increase dollars to organizations providing help and assistance for medical needs.<\/p>

The Environment<\/p>

1. Study and become an advocate for the correction of one or more abuses of the environment<\/p>

2. Organize within the community specific steps that can be taken by everyone to protect the environment<\/p>

3. Study and become a motivating force to have business improve steps to protect the environment<\/p>

4. Organize grass roots efforts on a large scale of persons who will become advocates for protection of the environment<\/p>

5. Study and become an advocate for the government to provide more dollars and enact more laws – for the protection of the environment.<\/p>

Land Preservation<\/p>

1. Organize more or more land trusts to buy and hold and preserve open land in communities<\/p>

2. Study and advocate the ways in which local – state – national governments can be more effective in land preservation<\/p>

3. Organize and foster local community organizations to mobilize community forces and opinions and dollars to preserve open land<\/p>

4. Study and advocate and promote effective ways in which individual land owners can preserve their land for the future benefit of generations.<\/p>

5. Create and organize a national organization working towards the preservation of open land for future generations.<\/p>

Assistance to Foreign Countries<\/p>

1. Working to support and increase medical assistance in poor countries – by initiating and supporting medical providers<\/p>

2. Creating ways to increase income of the populations of persons living in poverty<\/p>

3. Providing support and creating better living conditions in various ways such as water – food – housing in sub-standard areas<\/p>

4. Becoming an advocate for business to provide and pay better wages for work done in foreign countries<\/p>

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.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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