The U.S. Conference of Mayors has recognized Verizon with the Outstanding Award in Public/Private Partnerships for joining with the city of Los Angeles to expand an innovative after-school program to more inner-city schools.
At a Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington on Sunday (Jan. 18), Verizon was honored for providing $1 million to support expansion of [...]

Contribution of $250,000 This Year to a Total of 50 Students Supports Next Generation of Computer Engineers
For the fifth consecutive year, the Verizon International Foundation has presented $5,000 scholarships to 10 first-year students enrolled in the Computer Engineering program at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. The latest awards bring to 50 the number [...]

Versant today announced that it will grant a 2-year scholarship to a talented student pursuing a masters degree in computer science specializing in Databases/Information systems at Hamburg University in Germany. In launching the new “Versant Advanced Database Scholarship”, Versant, with its European Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, and Hamburg University will jointly select a talented student [...]

The New England Chapter of the Certified Commercial Investment Manager (CCIM) Institute is accepting applications for a total of six scholarships. Four Fran Cassidy Scholarships and two CCIM Institute Scholarships will provide partial tuition reimbursement towards the cost of the CI 101 “Financial Analysis for Commercial Real Estate” course, the first course in the curriculum [...]

Recruiting system matches hundreds of outstanding African-American students with Fortune 500 businesses to fill key management positions
Hundreds of leading African-American students were recently connected with recruiting executives from 60 prominent companies, including Wal-Mart, Bank of America, ATandT and Nike, thanks to a partnership between the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) and TalentPen, a candidate collection [...]

Six Bay State Summer Games athletes were chosen as recipients of the 2006 Future Leaders Scholarship.
The $2,000 scholarships were awarded by the Massachusetts Amateur Sports Foundation and one of its sponsors, Verizon.
The athletes are high school seniors-to-be from six different communities and six different sports: Gloucester’s Thomas Salah (hockey), Rivers [...]

Applications for the 2007-08 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships are now available from Rotary Clubs in Rotary District 6960 of Southwest Florida.
The scholarships provide for study abroad in more than 160 countries where Rotary clubs are located. Some 1,300 scholarships of various types will be available from clubs worldwide.
During their studies abroad, Rotary Foundation Scholars [...]