Beverly Hills Weight Loss & Wellness Proclaims the
National Breast Cancer Foundation as its year-round Charity.

Beverly Hills Weight Loss & Wellness is pleased to announce that it has become a corporate sponsor of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. President Mike D’Apolito stated, “Our clients have told us that they are deeply concerned about breast cancer, a disease that affects many families, and of course, primarily women. A majority of our clients are female, so we wanted to do anything we could to help. After a great deal of research, we believe NBCF is the best foundation that met our criteria of providing services and educating the public about breast cancer. The highly respected Charity Navigator Research Group has rated them as a 4-star charity two years in a row, which justified our faith in NBCF. We plan to work very closely with them to provide free educational materials to our clients and donate money to help them offer research grants, mammograms, and other support in the fight against breast cancer.”

The National Breast Cancer Foundation’s mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer through education and by providing mammograms for those in need. The founder and president of the National Breast Cancer Foundation is Janelle Hail. She is a breast cancer survivor of twenty-five years and relates to women with compassion, understanding, and inspiration as she conducts public educational programs across the nation.

NBCF has received the 4-star rating two years in a row from Charity Navigator, which is the largest and most respected charity evaluator in America. “Less than 12 percent of the charities we’ve rated received 4 stars two years in a row,” stated Trent Stamp, Executive Director of Charity Navigator. One reason NBCF is recognized as a great charity is their devotion to supporting quality medical research. NBCF recently awarded the Mayo Clinic a grant for breast cancer research.

Beverly Hills Weight Loss & Wellness
Donates Children’s Vitamins to
Boys and Girls Club of America

Beverly Hills Weight Loss and Wellness is actively supporting Boys and Girls Clubs in Florida with plans to expand nationwide. Recently, Beverly Hills donated over 200 bottles of children’s vitamins to locations in South Florida.

As part of a continuing effort to educate the public about wellness, nutrition, and healthy weight loss, Beverly Hills designed a special nutritional education program for the Boys and Girls Club that is interactive, fun, and informative. Corporate Dietician, Donna Dodge, organized and developed the program that will be presented to children in various Boys and Girls Club locations.

Boys and Girls Club is a non-profit organization that serves almost 5 million children in all 50 states at approximately 4000 locations. The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Boys & Girls Clubs number one among youth organizations for the 12th consecutive year, and number 16 among all non-profit organizations. Charity Navigator placed Boys & Girls Clubs on their "10 of the Best Charities Everyone's Heard Of" list. Boys & Girls Club was also the recipient of the 2004 Golden Halo award from the Cause Marketing Forum for overall excellence in cause-related marketing.

Obesity among children is now being recognized as an epidemic by experts in the medical community. Mike D’Apolito, President of Beverly Hills, stated, “As a father of three children I am deeply concerned about the health of America’s youth. Beverly Hills is proud to be a supporter of the Boys and Girls Clubs and we will continue to expand the nutritional program we have developed exclusively for them to help educate children about the importance of wellness and good health.”

Beverly Hills Weight Loss & Wellness
Donates Children’s Vitamins To
Farmworkers Children through Coca-Cola Program

Recently, in a continual effort to support total health for families, Beverly Hills Weight Loss & Wellness, donated children’s vitamins to the Agricultural and Labor Program (ALPI), headquartered in Winter Haven, Florida. Beverly Hills President, Mike D’Apolito stated, “It’s always very rewarding to help disadvantaged families, particularly children, who often are not able to afford healthy and nutritious meals. The children’s vitamins will provide them with all the nutrition they need to meet the national standards for good health and proper nutrition.

The Agricultural and Labor Program is a direct descendent of The Agricultural and Labor Project, established in 1968 by the Coca-Cola Company to improve the quality of life for farmworkers in Florida citrus operations. Today, ALPI serves the total spectrum of socially and economically disadvantaged children and families throughout Florida.

In the years since its inception, The Agricultural and Labor Program, Inc. has continued to grow and to expand efforts to assist those persons that the organization was chartered to serve. This effort is continuous and will exist as long as there are persons needing services. The five (5) underlying principles that guide ALPI activities include involvement of people, emphasis on long term accomplishments rather than promises, assurances of economic viability, emphasis on self-help, and a sound, integrated, total systems approach.