What Makes Verizon Tick: A Company Overview

Verizon offers customers more than great high speed internet, television, and local and wireless phone services. Verizon is also dedicated to maintaining respect and integrity through employees, shareholder relations, diversifying through alternate business ventures, community involvement, and a strong code of corporate ethics.

Verizon Employees

All Verizon employees abide by the Verizon Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct is a manual that outlines for Verizon employees the strict code of corporate ethics required when dealing with Verizon customers. This unprecedented level of dedication to leadership and employee conduct has secured Verizon's place as one of the most reputable companies in customer service and satisfaction. Verizon's goal is to be the most respected brand in the telecommunications industry, and they understand that goal can only be achieved by truly respecting employees, customers, and investors.

Investor Relations

Verizon is dedicated to maintaining a respectful, profitable and ethical relationship with their investors. By logging on the investor.verizon.com investor's can read about everything from Verizon’s corporate history to their corporate governance, financial performance, stock information and SEC filings.

Diversification and Community Involvement

Verizon is dedicated not only to diversifying business ventures, but also in giving back to the community. It is important for companies to continually grow and Verizon understands this. They have branched out to international markets, long distance service, wholesale solutions, and community service. By setting up the Verizon Foundation, Verizon has donated millions to increasing literacy, education, safety and health, and volunteerism throughout the United States.

Verizon Cares – Four Ways Verizon is Dedicated to Community Involvement

Verizon is dedicated to giving back to the community. They have made it part of their corporate policy to give back through the Verizon Foundation, an organization committed to education and literacy, safety and health, and volunteerism. The mission of the Verizon Foundation is, "To improve education, literacy, family safety and healthcare by supporting Verizon's commitment to technology that touches life." Since the year 2000 Verizon has invested over $400 million to this effort.

Education

The Verizon foundation has set up a variety of both online and offline programs to increase the level of literacy in students of all ages. Verizon's unprecedented technological approach to aiding students throughout their K-12 education by offering cutting-edge online and offline study programs has helped many children learn the literacy skills necessary to function in this ever-advancing society. Verizon's resources are donated to charitable organizations and non-profit groups throughout the nation in order to fulfill their goal of making a difference in the level of education and literacy in the United States.

Safety and Health

Verizon recognizes that acquiring and maintaining health care coverage is a major challenge for American families and communities. By investing resources in grants, volunteerism, and cutting-edge technologies Verizon is able to collaborate with non-profit and charitable organization in order to aide families and communities in need of improved safety and health conditions.

Volunteerism

In 2006 alone Verizon employees donated more than 600,000 hours of time to charity as part of Verizon Volunteers, one of the largest corporate volunteer programs in the nation. Just another way Verizon is dedicated to applying its resources to improve the quality of life for families and communities across the United States.