President's Corner
Patrick R. Gaston We focus on the issues of education and literacy, and safety and health. Our goal is to help people achieve the skills they need to live, learn and work in the 21st Century.
read more >>Verizon Scholarship Program Announces 2008 Recipients
Verizon is proud to support our employees and their families by helping young students make a college education a reality.
Verizon scholarships are highly competitive and are based on financial need, academic performance and extracurricular leadership activities. Applications are reviewed and evaluated by Scholarship America, which also selects the winners.
Scholarship grants are awarded only to children of Verizon employees who plan to attend four-year colleges and universities.
Only 250 students were selected out of over 1450 applications received. Our scholarship recipients will study at some of the finest colleges and universities in America - like Brown University, Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of Michigan, Smith College, Howard University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Congratulations to our 2008 scholarship recipients!
View a list of Colleges & Universities
our recipients will be attending
View a list of our 2008 recipients
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Patrick Gaston, in an interview with the New York Carib News Editorial Board talks about "seizing opportunities and climbing on the shoulders of others."
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Collection Drive Nets More than $400,000 in Goods
Georgia Teachers to Receive Free Training on Thinkfinity.org
View Parkside Elementary School teacher Michele Alford leading her 4th grade class through an interactive lesson on fractions using Thinkfinity.org resources. Recently, the Verizon Foundation announced a $50,000 grant to train teachers throughout Georgia to use the free resources on Thinkfinity.org.
