Verizon deepens commitment to help vulnerable communities and bridge digital divide
2020-2025 Responsible Business Investment to Exceed $3 Billion
Builds upon Fios Forward and now offers Emergency Broadband Benefit program for qualifying customers
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Today, Verizon serves the most rural wireless customers in the U.S. and has the highest reliability ranking in the industry.
As part of Citizen Verizon, the company’s responsible business plan to impact economic, environmental and social advancement, investment to help vulnerable communities is on track to exceed $3 billion by 2025.
New partnership with National 4-H Council announced, aimed at bringing digital skills training to rural communities though the 4-H Tech Changemakers program.
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Given the devastating economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and girls, the imperative to mark International Women’s Day carries more weight than usual this year.
The idea of a day celebrating the accomplishments of the female gender in the U.S. reaches back to 1909. Throughout the subsequent decade, the concept was embraced by countries including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Russia and Switzerland, but it wasn’t until 1975 that the first International Women’s Day was celebrated and adopted by the United Nations.
As I began identifying leaders to include on this third annual list, I was inspired by the introduction to All We Can Save, an essay and poem collection co-edited by marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (who you can find on this year’s list) and Katharine Wilkinson (who we recognized on the first Badass Women list in 2019).
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Generation Tackles Global Unemployment With BlackRock, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp. and Verizon
February 11, 2021 GMT
Generation Programme
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Generation, the non-profit global employment organization, has secured $77 million in new funding and $50 million in in-kind resources from BlackRock, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft Corp., and Verizon, to accelerate its work in tackling unemployment across 14 countries around the world. This combined commitment will allow Generation to support people who face systemic barriers to employment particularly young adult and midcareer workers as COVID-19 continues to threaten jobs and global economic growth.