Awards and Honors

Corporate Citizenship

• Verizon was named to CR magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for 2011. We made the list for the fourth consecutive year.

• Verizon received the Better Business Bureau’s International Torch Award for Marketplace Excellence in 2010 — the first time this award has been presented to a telecommunications company.

• The Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe, the online privacy evaluator, again ranked Verizon among the top 20 U.S. companies in its annual survey of the Most Trusted Companies for Privacy. Verizon ranked No. 14.

• Scholastic Administrator magazine has named Verizon Thinkfinity a Best in Tech website for professional development.

• Verizon was honored with the Anti-Defamation League’s 2010 Americanism Award for our commitment to educate the community on cyberbullying and other digital literacy issues.

Diversity | Workplace | Innovation

• Verizon’s continued efforts to create a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment have again earned the company a ranking on the DiversityInc 2010 and 2011 lists of Top 50 Companies for Diversity.

• For the 10th consecutive year, Verizon was named to Working Mother magazine’s list of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.

• Verizon is ranked third on Training Magazine’s 2011 Training Top 125, a list of companies that have the best training and development programs for employees.

• Verizon Wireless earned a place on InformationWeek magazine’s list of the nation’s top 10 technology innovators for development of a unique sales software system.

• Verizon Wireless was named a recipient of the 2010 CIO 100 award by CIO Magazine, which annually recognizes innovative organizations that use IT to create business value.

• For the eighth consecutive year, our commitment to diversity and inclusion was recognized by LATINA Style in its 2010 Latina Style 50 list of the best companies to work for in the U.S.

• Verizon Wireless earned the Corporate Diversity Award from the Mexican American Bar Foundation for the company’s continued commitment to diversity.

• For the second consecutive year, Verizon earned a spot on the National Business Group on Health’s 2010 list of Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles.

• Verizon was No. 4 on MBA Magazine’s 2010 list of Top 50 Companies for Diverse Managers.

• Verizon’s commitment to supplier diversity and its support of the Asian small-business community earned the 2010 Corporate Leadership Award from the Asian Business Association of Los Angeles.

Environmental | Social | Governance

• For the past two years, Verizon has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North American Index, which lists leading companies as measured by governance, social and environmental performance.

• Verizon was named to Newsweek’s North American Green rankings for the second consecutive year, while ranking No. 45 on the magazine’s inaugural Global 100 list.

• For the second time, Verizon Wireless was named one of the Top 12 Green IT Vendors by Computerworld. This year, Verizon ranked No. 4.

• Verizon is included on the following socially responsible investment lists: FTSE4Good Index, Ethibel Sustainability Index and Calvert Large Cap Value Fund.

• Verizon placed on the NASDAQ Global Sustainability Index, a benchmark for stocks of companies that are taking a leadership role in disclosing their carbon footprint, energy usage, water consumption, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, employee safety, workforce diversity, management composition and community investing.

• Verizon is included on the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index, a list of 100 top-performing companies in the U.S. selected for their climate-related innovation and carbon-management programs.

• Verizon received the Groundbreaker Award at the 2011 Clean Economy Summit for fostering the development and adoption of new technologies and business practices that advance a clean economy.

• Verizon received the 2010 Eco-Leadership Award from the Alliance for Workplace Excellence for our efforts to create an environmentally sustainable workplace.

• Verizon was recognized by the Clean Vehicle Education Foundation withits 2010 National Achievement Award for our Green Fleet program.