Venero Foundation

Hi, my name is Bob Venero and I am the Founder of the Bob Venero Children's Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare, health and happiness of children. I've always felt that children represent the best part of us, the finest part of who we are as human beings, and we have a certain responsibility to help make their lives as good as they can possibly be. I am the parent of 3 young children, all healthy and happy individuals who add so much to my world and for whom I'm profoundly grateful. Not every family is so blessed. That is why I established this Foundation and decided to leverage my background and experience in the technology industry to create something special here on Long Island for these families and more importantly for their children who, in the face of their medical challenges, struggle to just be who they are: children.

I'm very proud of our first project. We installed Virtual Offices for every bed within the Pediatric Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip . A typical office has laptops loaded with office automation software, email access, Internet capability, fax/copy/printer unit, etc, all of which utilizes the wireless environment we also created. A new standard for pediatric care at medical facilities around the world, the Virtual Offices allow hospitalized children to communicate online with friends and family, permit parents to keep up with their work without having to leave their sick child's side and aid siblings who need to spend time at the hospital and still get their homework done. We're now turning our attention to other hospitals here on Long Island, such as Stony Brook University Hospital , to create that same Virtual Office infrastructure. Our dream doesn't stop there though. I'd like to take this opportunity to announce the creation of Bob's KidzNet™ !

The evolution of our Virtual Offices project, KidzNet™ takes our dream to the next level by creating an online network for hospitalized children on Long Island (next stop: the World!) to chat online with each other via a specially designed e-community aimed at fostering communication, education and friendship. For example, it's the middle of the night and an 11-year-old girl at Good Samaritan Hospital can't sleep. She's a cardiac patient recuperating from heart surgery and she logs onto Bob's KidzNet™ and finds a 10-year-old girl from Stony Brook Hospital logged on. This young lady is also recuperating from surgery and has logged on to take her mind off her pain. The two girls connect online, start chatting, share their stories, assuaging each other's fears somewhat in that exchange. If nothing else, they each now feel less isolated and perhaps they've even made a friend whom they will continue to chat with online once they've returned home or even meet in person some day!

The state of being sick, the experience of being hospitalized --- especially for children with life-threatening and chronic diseases --- is both foreign and terrifying to a child. As a Foundation, we hope to impart some semblance of joy and normalcy to their lives at a time when it is so desperately needed. The work of the Bob Venero Children's Foundation has just begun. Children represent the future of our country and my foundation is focused on making sure that future is bright and full of promise. I've assembled a Board of Trustees whose commitment, contribution and tireless effort on the foundation's behalf is helping us create a vision for where we can make the greatest impact and provide the greatest value within both our local and global community.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about the Bob Venero Children's Foundation. Please stop back periodically to learn about our latest projects and how you or your corporation might join our team in creating a better tomorrow for our children.

Regards,

Bob Venero
Founder
The Bob Venero Children’s Foundation