Employee Collection Drives

Throughout the year, we ask Verizon employees and retirees to share their time and expertise helping nonprofits and programs that support our key initiatives - education and literacy and domestic violence prevention and recovery. For example:

• Through Shower for the Shelter, Verizon employees donated almost $290,000 worth of new and unused clothing, personal care products and household items to domestic violence survivors and their families in May 2010. Verizon Foundation and the National Network to End Domestic Violence Fund sponsored the campaign.
• The Tools for School campaign in July and August 2009 gave Verizon employees at over 500 work locations the opportunity to donate much-needed school supplies to more than 300 local schools and non-profit organizations throughout the US. An estimated $500,000 worth of school supplies were donated by Verizon employees, with more than 400 local schools and nonprofit organizations benefitting from the campaign.
• Season's Readings is a holiday tradition that calls on employees to collect and donate books for schools, libraries and literacy organizations. Since 2001, we've donated more than two million books, and in 2008, with the help of 450 Verizon locations and 870 volunteers, we collected 130,000 books with 30,000 coming from the online partnership with First Book.

If you are a Verizon employee or retiree and want to be notified about upcoming employee-giving campaigns, please let us know at verizon.volunteers@verizon.com