Veronica Atkins Philanthropy
Veronica Atkins survives her husband, the late Dr. Robert Atkins, who conceived the highly popular Atkins Diet, which emphasizes a diet low in carbohydrates.
Veronica Atkins was born in Russia and is unknown to many. She is an adept cook and has authored two cookbooks. She also sang opera professionally for thirteen years.
According to Business Week, Veronica Atkins is one of the top fifty most generous philanthropists. Newsweek also proclaimed her part of the “All-Star Team” in philanthropy.
Veronica Atkins presides over her deceased husband’s foundation. Renamed The Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Foundation, the organization added $40 million in assets from selling Atkins Nutritionals, her husband’s company, in 2003. When Veronica passes away, the foundation’s assets will gain Robert’s remaining trust fund and amount to $600 million. The foundation contributes to curtailing obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related diseases worldwide.
- The Veronica Atkins Foundation funds independent clinical and scientific research on pressing health risks like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. She has pledged around $450 million to the fund.
- The Veronica Atkins Foundation is one of a notable few endowing grants. Veronica Atkins also campaigns for relevant programs in education and public health advocacies.
- The Veronica Atkins Foundation has gifted $10 million to the Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley, to sponsor research on nutrition and fund campaigns for obesity prevention. Center for Weight and Health is one of the few in the country devoted to prevent pediatric obesity.
- In particular, Veronica Atkins advocates purging Type II diabetes among children. Veronica Atkins she donated $16,000 to students of North Side Elementary School, which opted not to sell unhealthy, sugary snacks to raise funds for their field trip.
- Veronica Atkins also donates to select orphanages in Russia. She has endowed several professorships in America.
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June 21, 2010
Dear Sir or Madam,
There is a lot of work to be done with Haiti’s most valuable assets, its children! In light of the recent event that has ravaged Haiti on January 12, 2010, it is now much more obvious to see that throughout every community around that country, young boys and girls are left on their own to locate their own food, find forms of recreation, and make new friends. Starting from the Physical terrain or infrastructure to the availability of socio-cultural resources, there lacks an apparatus answering the immediate needs of youths. The people of Port-au-Prince and other affected areas of Haiti suffered a great loss. They lost many lives and most importantly their sense of security.
I am Rose-Marie Chaperon, a US citizen; residing in Kansas City, MO, I am the founder of S.H.E.N.A- HAITI. (Safe Haven Education, Nutrition Association of Haiti). I am writing to ask you for your support in setting up a youth club in a disused workshop in Les Cayes Haiti.
Last May, after a very long stressful visit in Haiti, I realized the need to help the Haitian school age youth survive in a world that has been unfair to their development. The entire country is lacking the most basic nutritional need, because the price of the food and gas are so high. Everywhere you go, you hear the average citizen complaining about how difficult it is to feed their children. For example the gas price went up to $6.20 US dollars since the aftermath of the earthquake. SHENA-HAITI goal is to reduce the burden of these families by providing a safe haven for school age children during the school year.
SHENA HAITI is set out to be a home away from home by providing young boys and girls somewhere safe to go where there is none and something to do where there is nothing to do. SHENA-HAITI is there to show young people that someone cares about them and the goal here is to help the youth feel important by helping to put their dreams within reach while giving them a place to belong. The end goal of SHENA-HAITI is to provide developmental opportunities for a significant number of disadvantage young students because of their current circumstance.
With your help we can give a promising tomorrow to these youths. It only cost $5.00 a day to feed two children in Haiti, which in the states that’s the price of a sandwich. Please give a promising tomorrow to these children. No amount is too small; we simply need your caring heart. With your help, one less child will be privy of a well-balanced meal, and a place to hang out after school.
Our Mission Statement: The mission of S.H.E.NA-HAITI is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible members of society. S.H.E.N.A- HAITI strives to enhance and strengthens the lives of school- age children throughout the school year by providing a safe haven through daily education, nutrition and a place to belong.
Our Vision: To build upon and expand the legacy of providing exceptional development and enrichment programs for Les Cayes Haiti’s youth, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, so that they may realize their full potential.
Our Value: Everything we do is dedicated to creating positive experiences that promote and instill our core values of safety, integrity, respect, opportunity, and passion.
Our Promise: Our Promise to Youth: To provide a safe, positive place and have significant impact in their lives. Our Promise to the Community: To uphold high ethical standards, especially in overseeing our finances, reporting data on membership and being good stewards of resources invested by our community.
Please make your donation – check or money payable to –
SHENA- HAITI – 8751 N. Windsor Ave Suite 501
Kansas City, MO 64157
I want to thank you for taking your time to read this letter and I look forward to hearing from you. A receipt will be provided once your donation has been received. Thank you for giving these children a place to belong.
Yours faithfully,
Rose-Marie Chaperon, CHAM
CEO – Founder, SHENA- HAITI