implementing the VfPServe Program to provide eligible skilled professionals with matching grants to offset the travel and living expenses of volunteering abroad with nonprofit organizations;

otherwise promoting short- and long-term international volunteer service by skilled American professionals, including connecting such professionals with nonprofit organizations, to achieve such objectives;

helping nonprofit organizations in the United States recruit and effectively manage additional skilled American professionals for volunteer assignments throughout the developing world;

providing recognition for skilled American volunteers and the organizations deploying them;

helping nonprofit organizations and corporations in the United States to identify resources and opportunities in international volunteer service utilizing skilled Americans;

encouraging the establishment of international volunteer programs for employees of United States corporations; and

encouraging international voluntary service by highly skilled Americans to promote health and prosperity throughout the world.

eliminating extreme poverty;

reducing world hunger and malnutrition;

increasing access to safe potable water;

enacting universal education;

reducing child mortality and childhood diseases;

combating the spread of preventable diseases, including HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis;

providing educational and work skill support for girls and empowering women to achieve independence;

creating sustainable business and entrepreneurial opportunities; and

increasing access to information technology.