 When disasters strike, all too frequently it seems these days, Verizon jumps into action. Not long after tornadoes struck Joplin, Mo., Verizon Wireless began sending three temporary cell towers to provide emergency wireless calling capacity and coverage in and around Joplin.
Verizon Wireless also quickly implemented a mobile giving program for customers looking for a simple way to contribute to relief and recovery efforts following the devastation in Joplin. Verizon Wireless customers can use their mobile phones to make $10 donations to a variety of nonprofit organizations responding to the tornado and the needs of local citizens in the aftermath - including American Red Cross Relief and United Way - Heart of Missouri.
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 For a powerful country like the U.S., surprisingly, sadly, illiteracy is still a problem. It affects everything from sustainable employment to maintaining good health. Some sobering statistics:
· Adult illiteracy costs society an estimated $240 billion each year in lost industrial productivity, unrealized tax revenues, welfare, crime, poverty, and related social ills.
· Adults with low-level reading skills frequently suffer from health problems because the lack the ability to read medical directions, health-related literature or prescription labels.
· Children of disadvantaged parents begin their school life behind their peers.
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A company is measured in its deeds and actions more than its words.
 And for Verizon, that measurement comes in the form of its corporate responsibility report. The latest one shows how the company's innovative broadband and wireless technologies are tackling pressing issues such as education, domestic violence prevention and sustainability.
Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg notes in an introductory letter that the report reflects Verizon's steady, concerted efforts to use technology to address some of society's most urgent issues.
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 In the shadows of larger, better known Manhattan museums, The Newark Museum still remains a New Jersey gem. Housed in the former home of the Ballantine family in Newark, it is the largest museum in the state, known for such unique exhibits such as its Tibetan art collection as well as American and African artwork.
Recognizing the need for New Jersey teachers to have more in-depth and innovative resources for teaching about Africa and its culture, Verizon has awarded the Newark Museum a $100,000 grant to fund the African Arts Education Initiative. The initiative will be rolled out over three years, harnessing the rich resources of the Newark Museum's nationally and internationally renowned African arts collection to develop a curriculum unit that will be disseminated to K-12 educators in New Jersey and nationwide. In addition, a student and teacher tour program for the museum's African arts galleries will be developed and will include an interactive discovery area, a set of portable touchable African objects, and a printed gallery guide. Read More... |
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 Think of it as a ruler or tape measure for carbon footprints.
Verizon has developed a new metric that enables the company, for the first time, to accurately quantify the impact of all our sustainability initiatives.
By 2015, 15 percent of Verizon vehicles will be alternative-fuel vehicles such as this Verizon "worksite hybrid." The new measure - the carbon intensity metric - is derived by combining Verizon's carbon emissions from the electricity and fuels used to run the company's business and dividing that total by the terabytes of data transported across our global networks (one terabyte equals about 300 feature-length movies).
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