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Causes: Named Trusts, Philanthropy
Programs: The foundation provides academic and technical training & vocational scholarships for deserving bahamian students attending colleges, universities and other educational institutions internationally. For the fiscal year 2016, seventy-two (72) scholarships were granted to forty-eight (48) institutions, totaling $915,430.
the foundation provides grants to not-for-profit organizations that seek to improve the general education, health and welfare of the communities that they serve. In 2016, grants were made to thirty-seven (37) organizations, totaling $640,813.
the foundation provides an education initiative, f. O. C. U. S. , which is an eight-year school enrichment programme designed to set under-resourced students on a path to college and career success through weekend and summer classes. In 2016, the programme hosted two hundred six (206) students, for a total cost of $573,566.
scholarship administration, special projects and timeworks volunteer programme