The phrase "a modest program" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a program that is simple, not overly ambitious, or limited in scope.
Example: "The organization launched a modest program aimed at improving literacy rates in the community."
Alternatives: "a simple initiative" or "a basic plan."
Thomas is coaching a modest program at Florida International University.
Alfred walks a middle road, with a modest program, and a history that includes John Fasano.
A modest program employing former welfare recipients is just getting under way.
Nonetheless, the Colorado Ballet has arrived with a modest program that reveals only part of the company's range.
Seattle, which has nowhere near the kind of foreclosure problem other cities have, began a modest program last month offering loans of up to $5,000 to help a few dozen homeowners avoid losing their homes.
Chile started a modest program, not long after the ugly debates surrounding Christopher Columbus in 1992, to save Kawesqar (Ka-WES-kar) and Yaghan, the last two native languages of southern Chile.
A modest programming change, he said, could scramble images of body parts but still detect weapons.
As the mayor explained it, the plan, called Health Stat, is an expansion of a more modest program that his administration began working on six months ago.
The new discounts came just six days after G.M. announced a fairly modest program of incentives and just a day after Ward's Automotive Reports, a weekly statistical publication, forecast that May would be the weakest month in more than two years in the seasonally adjusted annual rate of auto sales.
The premise of the program is that the members will not simply write a check but will research, choose, and monitor the grants; they will be making "investments" rather than offering charity....S.V.P. is an extremely modest program... Paul Saffo, a director at the Institute for the Future, predicts, "...when the dam breaks, the amount of money pouring out of Silicon Valley is going to be enormous".
He called this a "bitterly modest" program, but "beggars can't be choosers".
