About the Verizon Foundation

Our Mission: To improve education, literacy, family safety and healthcare by supporting Verizon's commitment to deliver technology that touches life.

We focus our philanthropic efforts on three overarching areas: Education, Family Safety and Healthcare, and Employee Volunteerism, where we believe our technology can make the greatest impact.

The Verizon Foundation funds programs that address the heart of social issues such as literacy, K-12 education and domestic violence prevention. We build partnerships to replicate our most successful programs in communities across the country. Since 2000, the Verizon Foundation has invested more than $400 million in the United States and around the world to help others. Verizon employees donated more than 600,000 hours in 2008 as part of Verizon Volunteers, one of the largest corporate volunteer incentive programs in the United States.