Increasingly, I see people writing, as did a recent client about doing something, “. . . with the goals to educate and train. . . .” The problem is a goal is a noun, and “to educate” is an action. The confusion comes because verbs can be treated as nouns when they are in infinitives (“to educate”). Adding “is” is always a good idea with a goal. “The goal is to educate. . . ” or “The goal is educating the public about. . . ”