There's a good foundation for a program.
The Duke foundation has a program to combat child abuse, but it has never invested in an animal-welfare program.
"You can get out right now," said Collier, the athletic director credited with building the foundation of a program that he coached from 1989 to 2000.
When the foundation identifies a program that shows promise in one of these areas, rather than waiting for a grant application to roll in, it will dive right in and spend big on that program.
An SLA model within an OVC support program may make sense as a foundation for a program, but additional poverty alleviation activities (e.g., direct cash transfers, direct transfers of agricultural inputs, new jobs, etc).
The foundation has instituted a program at the thoroughbred track in Charleston, W.Va., by which management matches foundation money to acquire horses for retirement.
Recently, a foundation grant financed a program for doctors in the Hudson Valley that raised awareness of Lighthouse services.
In January, the foundation is introducing a program with Feeding America, a hunger-relief charity whose members supply food to more than 25 million Americans each year.
One recent entry was devoted to praising Bill Clinton — whose foundation helps run a program that keeps some (but not all) sweetened drinks out of schools and has received money from the industry — for coming out against a soda tax.
