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CAEPV Member of the Month - Verizon Wireless
Congratulations to Verizon Wireless -- CAEPV's May 2008 "Member of the Month." Verizon Wireless has a long history of working to prevent domestic violence both within the workplace and in the communities where it does business.
Verizon Wireless' focus on preventing domestic violence and raising awareness of the issues began in 1995 with the introduction of its HopeLine® phone recycling program. The program began when the company donated voicemail boxes to local shelters and has grown into a multifaceted program that includes a successful phone recycling and re-use effort, financial support for local and national domestic violence organizations, community and corporate awareness programs, and partnerships with law enforcement agencies, professional sports teams, educational institutions and corporations nationwide.
By 2007, Verizon Wireless had collected more than 4.5 million phones through the HopeLine program and donated nearly $5 million in cash grants to organizations engaged in raising the awareness of domestic violence and in its prevention, and put more than 60,000 wireless phones with service in the hands of local agencies and their clients.
Verizon Wireless added the #HOPE feature in October 2002. By dialing #HOPE from any Verizon Wireless phone, victims of domestic violence are able to access professional support quickly and confidentially. The toll- and airtime-free call is routed to the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-SAFE).
Verizon Wireless also has policies and programs within its workplace to protect and support its more than 69,000 employees. Domestic violence is covered in the company’s Code of Business Conduct—which every employee must read and sign each year.
In 2007, Verizon Wireless was the first company to implement the new SafeWork Certified Trainer program created by CAEPV Member Safe Horizon in partnership with the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence. In 2008, CEO Lowell McAdam signed on to SafeWork 2010 – further showing Verizon Wireless’ commitment to doing all it can to address domestic violence as a workplace issue.
Verizon Wireless was the lead sponsor of CAEPV’s National Benchmark Telephone Survey – the first-ever survey of adults across the United States to discover what how the general employee population has been impacted by domestic violence as a workplace issue. In addition, through the Verizon Foundation, Verizon Wireless is a generous supporter of CAEPV’s award-winning website for girls, GirlsAllowed as well as the sponsor of CAEPV’s recently redesigned website.
And finally, we are very thankful to have Debra Lewis, manager of Public Affairs and Corporate Communications at Verizon Wireless, as a member of our CAEPV Board of Directors and Carolyn Schamberger, Public Affairs manager of Verizon Wireless' Illinois Wisconsine Region as a member of our National Advisory Board.
We are proud to have such an involved and dedicated company as a member of CAEPV!
Member Listing
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
aHa Communications Inc.
Allstate Insurance Company
Altria Group, Inc.
American Domestic Violence Crisis Line
American Express Company
American Psychological Association
Archer Daniels Midland
Avon Products, Inc./The Avon Foundation
Bank One
Blackbaud (formerly Master Software Corporation)
Blue Shield of California Foundation
CHOICES
CIGNA Corporation
Colorado Bar Association
Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence
Cornell - ILR - Metro District Office
Corning Incorporated
Corporate Alliance Against Domestic Violence-UK
COUNTRY Financial
Domestic Violence Network of Greater Indianapolis
Eastman Kodak Company
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Extreme Internet
Family Violence Prevention Fund
Goddard Claussen / First-Tuesday
Gruber Industries, Inc.
Health Care Service Corporation - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
Heartland Community College
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Illinois State University
Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
Key Bank
Lifetime Television
Lincoln Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Liz Claiborne Inc.
Longview Associates LLC.
Mary Kay Inc.
McClure Associates Management Consultants, Inc.
McLean County State's Attorney's Office
McLean County, IL Government
MicroAge, Inc.
Mid Central Community Action
Motta Company (formerly Woodward & Company)
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Football League
National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Northern Trust Company
Ohio Domestic Violence Network
Oxygen Media
Park National Bank
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Pennzoil-Quaker State Company
PPG Industries Foundation
Pro-Media Communications Inc.
RAND Corporation
Riesbeck Food Markets, Inc.
Rogers Park Community Council
Safe Horizon
Sam M. Walton College of Business
School of Social Work, Rutgers University
Second Chance Employment Services
Southwest Airlines
State Farm Insurance Companies
Target Corporation
Texas Health Resources
Town of Normal, IL
Tri-County Family Violence Prevention Coalition
Verizon Communications
Verizon Wireless
Wireless Foundation
Friends of CAEPV
ACTION OHIO Coalition For Battered Women
Alternatives Incorporated of Madison Co.
Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion - Program on Prosocial Behavior
Bexar County Family Justice Center
Bose Corporation
Caring Place, Inc.
Children's Foundation
Collaborative Solutions Institute
Coors Brewing Company
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Employers Against Domestic Violence
Legal Momentum
McKee Foods Corporation
National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline
New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
Nybakke Vacuum Shop, Inc.
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
Silent Witness National Initiative
Sojourner Center
Soroptimist International of the Americas
Soroptimist InternationalMidwestern Region
Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE)
YWCA McLean Co. IL
Individual Contributors to CAEPV
Breanne Ash and Kyle LaBounty in honor of Justice James A. Knecht
Dede Thompson Bartlett and James Bartlett
Maureen G. Coleman
Joanne and Marilyn Lober Colucci
Linda and Michael Condit
Anne C. Crews
Deneen & Deneen
Mary Anne & Frank Detmer
KC Eynatten
Linda Fairstein
Cathy Hawkes
Beth & Patrick Johnson
Gwen Keita
Robert & Cynthia Kieckhefer
Alyce LaViolette
Debra Lewis
Ken Meeker in honor of Kristen Illes
Reverend Al Miles & Kathy Miles
Jane Randel & Charles Kliment
Charles G. Reynard
Gene Rugala
Carolyn Schamberger
Richard Schrenker in honor of Jeff Cooper
Melanie Sloan
Peggy B. Smith
Cheryl Snyder
Deborah D. Tucker
Mike & Kim Wells
Rosalind Wiseman
