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Verizon Wireless Provides More Than $1.5 Million in Support to Domestic Violence Prevention Agencies in Western U.S.
Verizon Wireless Provides More Than $1.5 Million in Support to Domestic Violence Prevention Agencies in Western U.S.
Published 04-10-07
Submitted by Verizon Wireless
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2007--Verizon Wireless, owner and operator of the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, awarded nearly $780,000 in HopeLine program grants and 2,400 wireless phones to domestic violence agencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and El Paso, Texas in 2006. Each HopeLine wireless phone includes one year of prepaid airtime, for a total in-kind value of $718,000.
HopeLine grants awarded in 2006 in Southern California included:
- Alternatives to Domestic Violence - to build capacity for
child counseling services - Asian Pacific Women's Center - to support bilingual case
management programs - Break The Cycle - to help provide legal services to victims of
domestic violence - Foothill Family Services - to purchase educational videos for
victims at it shelter - Human Options - to support individual and group counseling for
children and adults - Interval House - to expand victim service partnerships with
police, courts and hospitals - South Bay Community Services - to fund child art therapy and
literacy courses for pre-school-aged children living in its
shelter - Women's Shelter of Long Beach - to support volunteer education
programs mandated by the state of California - YWCA of the San Gabriel Valley - to support volunteer
education programs mandated by the state of California
Since October of 2001 when Verizon Wireless launched its national recycling program, HopeLine has collected more than 3.5 million phones, nationwide. The program has properly disposed of more than 800,000 pieces of wireless equipment in an environmentally sound way, and refurbished the remaining for resale and reuse. Verizon Wireless customers across the country donated a total of 910,000 no-longer-used wireless phones to HopeLine in 2006.
No-longer-used phones are collected in more than 2,200 Communications Stores across the country. For more information on Verizon Wireless' HopeLine program and on how to donate a wireless phone, visit www.verizonwireless.com/hopeline.
About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, serving more than 59 million customers. The largest US wireless company and largest wireless data provider, based on revenues, Verizon Wireless is headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 65,000 employees nationwide. The company is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE:VOD)(LSE:VOD). Find more information on the Web at www.verizonwireless.com. To
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