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, Safety and Health, and 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, technology education and domestic violence. 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. In 2007, we awarded more than $69.4 million in grants to charitable and nonprofit agencies serving the needs of diverse communities. Verizon employees donated more than 485,000 hours in 2007 as part of Verizon volunteers, one of the largest corporate volunteer incentive programs in the United States.