Broncos & Verizon Wireless phone collection

Wireless phone collection drive Oct. 29 at INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium

Verizon Wireless and the Denver Broncos are teaming up for the fifth consecutive year to help curb domestic violence. Fans attending Oct. 29 home game are invited to donate used wireless phones and accessories to benefit victims of domestic violence through the Verizon Wireless HopeLine® program.

HopeLine drop boxes will be located outside Gates 7 and 10 at INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium from 4 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. on Oct. 29.

Through the Verizon Wireless HopeLine program, used wireless phones, batteries and accessories from any service provider are recycled, or refurbished and sold. Verizon Wireless uses the proceeds to award grants and to donate wireless phones with prepaid airtime to local shelters and non-profit organizations to aid survivors of domestic violence. Last year, Broncos fans donated more than 350 used wireless phones and accessories to the program.

"Verizon Wireless is pleased to partner with the Broncos for the fifth straight year during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month," said Melanie Braidich, regional president for Verizon Wireless. "We encourage Broncos fans to donate their no longer needed wireless phones and accessories to help us provide a HopeLine to more victims of domestic violence, an epidemic affecting more than one out of every three American women during their lifetime."

In the past five years, the company has awarded nearly $250,000 in HopeLine grants to Colorado domestic violence agencies and has donated hundreds of HopeLine wireless phones with prepaid airtime to domestic violence agencies across the state.

Wireless phones and equipment can be donated to the HopeLine program year-round at any Verizon Wireless Communications Store across the country.
Link