Strategy

• VFI tests small-scale projects that emphasize practical solutions to human security issues, e.g., water, food, shelter, health, education, self sufficiency.
  
  
• VFI concentrates on finding and matching financial, human and technical resources for these projects to leverage the most effective results.
  
  
• VFI emphasizes teaching people to help others as they have been helped.
  
  
• VFI is dedicated to supporting efforts that study the causes and effects of problems and producing information that helps develop practical solutions to them.
  
  
• VFI uses traditional and new media to produce, communicate and distribute educational products from the supported projects.
  
  
• VFI funds and produces conferences, symposia and lectures that are related to the specific mission of the foundation.