The Commission fosters the continuous development and improvement of Catholic schools, acts on behalf of the Catholic community and determines major policy.

The purpose was to foster innovation and improvement in American policing.

According to David Fetterman, "Empowerment evaluation is the use of evaluation concepts, techniques, and findings to foster improvement and self-determination".

But hospital executives also say that, beyond the bonuses, the current underlying system for paying hospitals and doctors needs to be changed to foster further improvement.

Certification is a valuable approach to ensure reliable delivery of consistent product while fostering continual improvement.

The aim is to foster continued improvement in the quality of public works and wider community services.

He took the view that newspapers were expected to foster growth and improvement in the community as well as report the news.

The club's founding purpose was to foster "mutual improvement, education, and enlightenment" among members of Washington society.

The schools are granted charters by the state and are exempt from much government and union regulation, on the theory that flexibility will foster improvement.

They further argue that creative writing also entails an in-depth study of literary terms and mechanisms so they can be applied to the writer's own work to foster improvement.