The mission of the Foundation is to raise academic expectations and to promote practices that benefit students, including but not limited to the following: (i) to collectively provide educational programs and services which otherwise the members of COSSA would individually be unable to offer, or which can be provided more economically or more efficiently in combination. Programs and services may include many different things; (ii) to research and study problems of mutual concern that impact cooperative programs and services provided by COSSA; (iii) accept gifts and contributions of any kind and nature from individuals, corporations or other organizations or associations, whether make by will or otherwise, and in any form of property, all such contributions to be receive and accepted under the guidelines and for the purposes set forth in this section; (iv) buy, sell, exchange and otherwise deal in stocks, bonds, real estate and any other form of property at either public or private sale, without order of any court or of another authority so long as it is in the best interests of the Foundation; (v) invest and reinvest any funds belonging to the Foundation at any time in such securities and properties, real and personal, as the Directors of this Foundation in their sole discretion see fit; (vi) employ or retain any bank, trust company or financial institution to guide the Foundation in the investment and management of its real and personal property and to compensate such employees or agents for their services.