The phrase "a program to foster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an initiative or project aimed at promoting or encouraging a particular outcome or behavior.
Example: "The organization launched a program to foster creativity among young artists in the community."
Alternatives: "an initiative to promote" or "a scheme to encourage".
Finding replacements for retiring farmers has been so hard that the Greenmarket runs a program to foster them, geared toward new immigrants with agricultural experience.
She was chairwoman of Harvard's University Committee on Human Rights, and created and led a program to foster leadership in Africa.
At a recent personnel meeting, she homes in on grade-point averages and SAT scores to narrow a list of candidates, many having graduated from Ivy League schools, whom she wanted to meet as part of a program to foster in-house talent.
Sears said it has taken steps to further clarify its contributions policy and "will initiate a program to foster education and awareness concerning campaign finance and the debate surrounding it".
When, earlier this year, the Ministry of Education introduced a new program to foster interest in Peking opera among the young, a poll found that more than fifty per cent opposed the initiative as a waste of resources.
Money in the Bush proposal could be used to offer financial incentives to poor couples who wed, Mr. Horn said, but only as part of a state program to foster healthy marriages.
Another amendment would create a NSF program to foster science and engineering at colleges and universities with large numbers of Hispanic students.
ALLTHINGSD 'Godmother of Silicon Alley' Has Died | "Red Burns, an educator who gained wide recognition for pushing for more creative uses of modern communications, helping to lead the movement for public access to cable television and starting a celebrated New York University program to foster Internet wizards, died on Friday at her Manhattan home.
This study demonstrates the effectiveness of a focused prospective program to foster student interest in surgery.
To evaluate the immediate effects of a school-based multi-component program to foster a physically active lifestyle in adolescence.
NSF initiated POWRE in 1997 as an individual fellowship program, to foster professional growth during the tenure-track years and to increase the pool of female role models in science and engineering.
