Verizon donates to Island Harvest
Verizon gave $6,000 today to Island Harvest, a sum raised through a promotional program called Velocity.
Under the Verizon Velocity program, the company donated up to $65 for each qualifying order from Long Islanders who ordered Verizon products and services from Nov. 1 through the end of the year.
The donation took place at Island Harvest’s year-end celebration at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale in recognition of the organization having met its 2010 goal of collecting 8 million pounds of food.
In the photo above, from left, are Randi Shubin Dresner, the president and CEO of Island Harvest, Theresa Farrell, Verizon’s marketing director for Long Island, and John Bonomo, Verizon’s media relations director for New York.
In addition to the donation of money, Verizon and its Long Island employees collected more than 7,000 pounds of food – an average of about 800 pounds per week – at a variety of company-sponsored events across the Island.
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