The phrase "a program intended to encourage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing the purpose of a program that aims to motivate or support a particular behavior or action.
Example: "The organization launched a program intended to encourage healthy eating habits among children."
Alternatives: "a program designed to promote" or "a program aimed at fostering".
In 2002, for example, the administration of Gov. George E. Pataki deemed one of Mr. Paladino's companies eligible for tax incentives under a program intended to encourage economic development.
This passion soon took Ms. Moore to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where the agency runs a program intended to encourage residents of the Medgar Evers Houses and the Dr. Betty Shabazz Houses to form tenant associations and hold meetings with housing management to help improve their buildings.
Its new cafeteria vending machine — a lighted panel on the front shows sliced apples and oranges against a backdrop of lettuce — is part of a pilot program intended to encourage students who skip lunch or stay late for sports to make better choices.
In 1995 Congress eliminated a tax program intended to encourage investment in small, minority- and women-owned telecommunication companies.
Four whistle-blowers in the case will share more than $25 million under a government program intended to encourage company insiders to report illegal activity.
Under a new program intended to encourage small-business lending, smaller banks can exchange their rescue money for cheaper capital, provided they meet certain lending targets.
Those buildings, nearly 200 in all, are the focus of federal and state inquiries into possible abuses of a federal program intended to encourage homeownership in low-income neighborhoods.
The $10 billion to $15 billion spent every year on direct payments to farmers could be redirected to create a retail incentive program intended to encourage the purchase of healthful foods by food-stamp recipients.
Some in the community have taken money from a controversial government-sponsored program intended to encourage jobless migrant workers to go home.
To help correct the retail imbalance, earlier this year the city embarked on a loan and grant program intended to encourage the reopening or development of grocery stores in neighborhoods where shopping opportunities are sparse.
Officials of the corporation, the agency overseeing a $281 million federal grant program intended to encourage people to remain or move downtown, said on Friday that nearly 10percentt of the roughly 2,000 apartment buildings south of Canal Street or, on the East Side, Delancey Street, that are eligible for the program have violations that could affect residents' applications for aid.
