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Getty Images and Verizon to Award $20,000 Grant to Champion Disability Representation in the Workplace

February 13, 2025February 11, 2025 Stuart Mitchell

Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, in collaboration with Verizon and the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA), invites photographers and videographers to reimagine how the disability community is represented in professional settings. This global creative grant offers $20,000 in funding to help talented creators rewrite the narrative, showcasing the disability community as active, thriving professionals, leaders, and innovators in the workplace. Despite growing awareness of diversity in visual media, the stories of people with disabilities in professional roles remain underrepresented. Too often, visuals portray the disability community…

Verizon joins RE100 and shares new milestones in its responsible business plan

May 8, 2024May 9, 2024 Stuart Mitchell

Verizon has announced it has joined RE100, a global initiative bringing together the world’s most influential businesses committed to 100% renewable electricity. Led by the Climate Group and in partnership with CDP, RE100’s mission is to accelerate change towards zero carbon grids at scale, an objective that Verizon is proud to support. As previously announced, Verizon aims to source renewable energy equivalent to 100% of its annual electricity usage by 2030, with an interim target of 50% by 2025. “As a core part of our business, Verizon looks to benefit…

Verizon Climate Resilience Prize winners receive $500k to scale climate solutions

March 12, 2022February 17, 2022 Stuart Mitchell

Verizon has announced the three winners of its inaugural Climate Resilience Prize at the GreenBiz22 conference, awarding a prize pool of $500,000 to help scale proven, in-market solutions that are focused on mitigating the disproportionate impacts of climate change in vulnerable communities. In partnership with GreenBiz and the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Climate Resilience Center, Verizon’s Climate Resilience Prize recognizes next-gen solutions that have already demonstrated results in real-world application and are ready to scale. The Prize was announced at GreenBiz’s VERGE 21 Conference in October, and applications were evaluated by a…

New Renewable Energy Deals Position Verizon to Achieve Key Energy Goal

February 26, 2022February 5, 2022 Stuart Mitchell

Verizon continues to be a leading corporate buyer of U.S. renewable energy, announcing seven new Renewable Energy Purchase Agreements (REPAs) for an aggregate of approximately 910 megawatts (MW) of projected renewable energy capacity. These agreements position the company to achieve its goal to source or generate renewable energy equivalent to 50 percent of its total annual electrical consumption by 2025, and help support Citizen Verizon, the company’s responsible business plan for economic, environmental, and social advancement. The seven new agreements bring the cumulative number of REPAs, signed since December 2019,…