Awards and Honors

Diversity and Workplace Excellence

• For the ninth consecutive year, Diversity Inc named Verizon one of the top companies on its list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity. Our 2009 rank: No. 12. Verizon is the only company to be named No. 1 twice (2006 and 2008).

• For the eighth consecutive year, Working Mother magazine named Verizon one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers. Verizon was also named to the magazine’s list of Best Companies for Multicultural Women for the third consecutive year.

• For the third consecutive year, BusinessWeek named Verizon to its list of Best Places to Launch a Career, ranked No. 22.

• DiversityBusiness.com named Verizon one of America’s Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities for 2008, based on the volume, consistency and quality of business opportunities a company grants to women- and minority-owned suppliers.

Corporate Citizenship

• For the second consecutive year, Verizon was named one of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens by CRO magazine, based on company efforts in climate change, employee relations, the environment, financial performance, governance, human rights, lobbying disclosure and philanthropy.

• The Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe, the online privacy evaluator, ranked Verizon among the top 20 U.S. companies in the fifth annual survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy.

• The Big Money Web site ranks Verizon’s overall corporate responsibility performance 40th out of nearly 500 of the nation’s largest companies. (www.thebigmoney.com/tools/socially-responsible-investing).

• We are included on the following socially responsible investment funds: FTSE4Good Index, KLD Domini 400, Ethibel Sustainability Index and in 2008 were named to the Calvert Group’s Large Cap Value Fund.

Environment

• Verizon has earned the federal government’s Energy Star Award for operating the nation’s largest fuel cell site of its kind, an environmentally friendly call-switching center and office building in Garden City, New York.

• Verizon’s environmental policies and customer-facing initiatives have earned Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Green Excellence of the Year Award in the Corporate Leadership category for the telecom services industry.

• Verizon Wireless was named one of InfoWorld’s Green 15 for 2008 for IT initiatives that result in higher energy efficiency, less waste and a reduced environmental impact to meet sustainability goals.