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Verizon Wireless Marks 10-Year Anniversary Of HopeLine(SM) Program With $250,000 Gift to University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women; Nearly 750,000 Phones Collected and More Than $800,000 Donated To Help Victims of Domestic Violence in 2004.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 16-FEB-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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BEDMINSTER, N.J., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- To mark the 10-year anniversary of Verizon Wireless' HopeLine(SM) program, the company today announced a $250,000 gift to The University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women. The gift is the largest amount pledged by Verizon Wireless to a single organization to support domestic violence prevention and awareness. It will be used by the University's Center to establish and endow a professorship of studies on violence against women.

"Over the past decade, the HopeLine program has grown significantly and along the way has helped so many victims -- keeping them safe and helping them rebuild their lives," said Denny Strigl, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless. "We're thankful to our customers and the countless other consumers, organizations and businesses that have participated in the program and helped make possible gifts like that...

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