a) To promote organized effort to restore families,
children and
individuals in need of care and protection to a normal life through
carefully planned and executed measures, including relief,
employment, legal and medical care and education.
b) To take part in community programs for social
betterment, seeking, in counsel with other agencies, to lessen abuses in
society that undermine the well-being of individuals and families.
c) To organize social, sport and other events to raise
funds for assisting and supporting philanthropic, scientific and
educational endeavors and causes designed to advance the well-being of
mankind.
d) To provide needy and qualified young men and women of
Italian
heritage with opportunities and scholarships that will better prepare
them to become the future leaders of industry, government, the
professions and the church.
e) To advance the good image of Italian Americans
everywhere; to
promulgate their positive contributions in our Society; to maintain
alive their pride of being a representative element of a civilization
that has contributed and continues to contribute to the enlightenment
of the human spirit.
f) To receive donations, legacies, devices and property
of every kind and description for the benefit of the Associations
objectives and to spend the same as efficiently and beneficially as
possible.