Foundation Overview
® was created for the general purpose of proactively developing, uniting, integrating, targeting, and communicating a positive ecologically and scientifically based health care empowerment nutrition and physical activity education intervention program message to those directly and indirectly affected by the national obesity epidemic. Such interventions when introduced and reinforced with some frequency to the pre-K and K-6 audiences and their gatekeepers (parents/guardians) will induce healthier eating and physical activity habits which in-turn will eliminate or greatly reduce the need or frequency for expensive healthcare medicines and their severe side effects (development of type-2 diabetes, certain cancers, heart-disease, hypertension, stroke, dementia, schizophrenia, etc.), high-risk weight reduction surgery, or worse early mortality. More specifically, with intended financial support from consumer product companies {food processing, insurance, pharmaceutical}, charitable private foundations, private individuals, government grants, the general public, and other similar or like entities, ® seeks to target, personally engage, and motivate those directly affected by the obesity epidemic: toddlers, children, teens, and their gatekeepers (parents and educators), through its proactive health care education programming interventions for long-term health and well-being.
® has assembled a dedicated Board of Trustees, and an outstanding nationally and internationally recognized Board of Advisors to address, advise, and accomplish the ambitious mission and vision of the Foundation. Through the gracious assistance, input, counsel, and advocacy of many ® Advisory Board members, the Foundation has developed and outlined herein an innovative two phased six-step ecologically and scientifically based grass-roots healthcare education empowerment intervention program to facilitate healthier lifestyles through early intervention at the pre-K and K-6 levels (read the "Advisory Board Programming comments" on this new and innovative ® healthcare approach).
Furthermore, ® intends to develop a child/parent oriented 
® Healthcare Newsletter focusing on issues of nutrition, physical activity, and innovative tips on how to maintain life-long healthy attitudes and habits. ® intends to initiate its two phased Programming and healthcare newsletter upon reaching its incubator and national program funding objectives.
The National Childhood Obesity Foundation® is a 501 c(3) tax-exempt designated
charitable corporation as determined by the Internal Revenue Service and as
officially filed and incorporated with the Secretary of State and Attorney
General's offices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in June of 2003
and officially incorporated on 2 September 2004, ® received its 1023
tax-exempt status designation as a "Public Charity" from the IRS for
solicitation and donor tax-exempt purposes on 2 February 2006. The Foundation is
now qualified to receive tax deductible corporate and personal donations,
bequests, transfers, and gifts as described under sectionos 2055, 2106 , and
2577 of the Internal Revenue Code.