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 Kohl’s Selects 10 Young Volunteers for National Recognition
America’s youth contribute more than 1.3 billion hours of community service each year, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service. Today, Kohl’s Department Stores recognized 10 of these stand-up kids by naming them national winners of the Kohl’s Kids Who Care® Scholarship Program.
Ranging in age from 10 to 18, each winner was awarded a $5,000 scholarship in addition to his or her regional winnings. Kohl’s will also donate $1,000 to a nonprofit organization of each winner’s choosing.
This year’s Kids Who Care scholarship recipients were selected for advocating youth literacy, founding a charity for disabled youth, raising money for underprivileged children and more.
Scholarship recipients are:
- Sarosha Hansraj, 10, Grapevine, Tex. – Sarosha founded an organization that has helped serve more than 255 underprivileged children in Afghanistan by providing them school supplies.
- Mary-Pat Hector, 10, Jonesboro, Ga. – Mary-Pat wrote and directed a play, “Easy Street Ain’t So Easy,” to raise awareness about abuse and donated $2,500 to a homeless shelter.
- Maxwell Lawson, 11, Munster, Ind. – Maxwell turned his birthday parties into fundraising events to collect supplies for Guatemalan children and to purchase prosthetic legs for children.
- Stephen Toledo, 12, Randolph, N.J. – Stephen raised money and collected recreational supplies to donate to local children's hospitals.
- Patrick Pedraja, 13, Palm Harbor, Fla. – Patrick has added 6,500 people to the National Marrow Donor Program Registry through the program he founded, Driving for Donors.
- Sara-Elizabeth Clark, 13, Gardiner, N.Y. – Sara-Elizabeth raised more than $25,000 for epilepsy and a book is being authored about her experiences living with epilepsy.
- David Steinmetz, 16, Woodbridge, Conn. – David obtained a grant to provide 275 of his self-written books to children at Camp Good Grief, a bereavement program for kids who have lost loved ones.
- Brittany Bergquist, 17, Norwell, Mass. – Brittany helped raise more than $1 million and has sent more than 450,000 phone cards overseas since she began the Cell Phones for Soldiers program.
- Lorna Her Many Horses, 18, Rosebud, S.D. – Lorna distributed more than 2,500 books to children on her reservation to help improve literacy.
- Michael Pesci, 18, Parsippany, N.J. – Michael raised more than $150,000 to provide sports equipment to those in need through the program he founded, the Perfect Pitch Home Run Derby Charity Event.
"To see kids as young as 10 founding programs, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars and caring for those in need is inspiring because they are learning at an early age the intrinsic value of volunteerism," said Julie Gardner, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Kohl’s. "Kohl’s is thrilled to reward these kids through the Kohl’s Kids Who Care Scholarship Program and hopes it will encourage more young people to volunteer."
Since launching the Kohl’s Kids Who Care Scholarship Program in 2001, more than 7,000 scholarships and prizes totaling over $1.5 million have been awarded to youth volunteers nationwide. This year, Kohl’s awarded more than $300,000 in scholarships and prizes to reward these outstanding kids based on their initiative, leadership, creativity and generosity.
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Cell Phones for Soldiers and Home Properties Launch National Cell Phone Collection at 114 Locations
NORWELL, Mass., July 1 /PRNewswire/ - More than 150,000 troops are serving overseas and are away from their families. Cell Phones for Soldiers and Home Properties, a real estate investment trust (REIT) with communities in selected Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast Florida markets, are calling on all Americans to support these brave men and women by donating used cell phones.
"We're asking Americans to make a small sacrifice of support by donating their used cell phones, providing families with a much-needed connection to their loved ones overseas," says Brittany Bergquist, Cell Phones for Soldiers co-founder.
Home Properties residents can donate their old cell phones to the cause at any one of almost 120 Home Properties locations in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The goal of the collection drive is to collect 5,000 phones in three months. Non-residents are also invited to participate. To find a drop-off location near you, visit http://www.homeproperties.com and utilize the map to search in your area.
"We're proud to show our support for U.S. soldiers, and to work with our residents and employees to contribute to a worthy cause like Cell Phones for Soldiers," says Rosemarie Cook-Manley, Marketing Director at Home Properties.
Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization has raised millions of dollars in donations and distributed more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
"We have been overwhelmed by the generous support of thousands of Americans who have helped our troops speak with their loved ones," says the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "However the need for support keeps growing as more soldiers are sent to the Middle East or are asked to serve extended tours of duty."
Through increased fundraising efforts, the Bergquist family hopes to raise more than $9 million in the next five years to fund new programs, such as providing video phones to allow soldiers abroad to see their families on a regular basis.
The phones are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone -- enough to provide an hour of talk time to soldiers abroad.
Approximately half of the phones ReCellular processes are reconditioned and resold to wholesale companies in over 40 countries around the world. Phones and components that cannot be refurbished are dismantled and recycled to the highest environmental standards.
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 AT&T and Cell Phones for Soldiers Surpass First-Year Goal, Raising Over $2 Million to Support U.S. Troops With Free Phone Cards
DALLAS, July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Recycle wireless phones and help connect U.S. military families with free phone cards. AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and military charity Cell Phones for Soldiers (CPFS) have been connecting those dots since July 2007 -- by recycling cell phones in more than 2,000 AT&T stores across 1,100 U.S. cities. And, as Independence Day approaches, the company and the charity are celebrating that CPFS has now raised more than $2 million -- including recycling proceeds and financial and in-kind donations -- since the two joined forces.
To celebrate the one-year milestone, AT&T is now pledging another year of recycling support for the charity -- in all company-owned stores.
CPFS collects and recycles wireless phones and uses the proceeds to buy free phone cards for U.S. military members and their families. The first-year results of the program have surpassed the 2007 goal of raising $1.4 million, enough to provide a free 20-minute phone card for all troops stationed in Iraq at that time.
Phones recycled through AT&T stores, community drives and online tools have added volume to the broader efforts of the CPFS recycling program, which has now collected more than a million total wireless phones since July 2007 -- including 90,000 phones collected via AT&T channels in just the past three months.
This builds on the environmental challenge issued in April 2008, when AT&T pledged to help the charity recycle 1.8 million phones by April 2009 and expanded its support beyond company stores, to also engage a network of more than 300,000 AT&T volunteers, The AT&T Pioneers. Through community-based donation drives, volunteers have already collected more than 10,000 additional wireless phones in the just past few months.
"As we approach one of the most patriotic holidays of the year," said Paul Roth, president of Marketing and Sales for AT&T’s wireless unit, "we’re focused on helping to keep military families connected. Our work with Cell Phones for Soldiers is one way we’re doing that, and anyone can join us by dropping a used cell phone in our stores or by using the free resources available online. We know that we can make a difference because we’ve already seen it happen: Our weekly in-store recycling averages are three times what they were in 2007 and 17 times more than the same time in 2006."
AT&T is also supporting CPFS by accepting recycled phones via sponsored events like the Vans Warped Tour 2008, a popular music festival making more than 40 stops across the U.S. this summer, and the AT&T National, in Bethesda, Md., where CPFS recycling mailer bags will be available to golf fans attending the tournament.
"When we first sent an e-mail to AT&T more than a year and a half ago, we never dreamed the company’s response would lead to so much more support for military families, " said CPFS co-founder Brittany Bergquist. "AT&T has helped us reach more people with our mission -- through more recycling locations, more phone cards for the troops, more public awareness for our cause, and now, new corporate partners who have noticed us and come on board to help. We are so grateful to AT&T for all of this, and we are excited to continue our recycling mission with them for another year. It means that more military families will be able to stay in touch. And that means a whole lot to us at Cell Phones for Soldiers."
CPFS estimates that -- thanks to the proceeds from recycling efforts, financial and in-kind contributions, enhanced visibility, and new, large-scale partnerships -- it has sent roughly 200,000 free phone cards to military members since last May, when AT&T first announced its support and the two organizations began working together to build awareness for the cause.
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Cell Phones for Soldiers and Home Properties Launch National Cell Phone Collection at 114 Locations
NORWELL, Mass., July 1 /PRNewswire/ - More than 150,000 troops are serving overseas and are away from their families. Cell Phones for Soldiers and Home Properties, a real estate investment trust (REIT) with communities in selected Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast Florida markets, are calling on all Americans to support these brave men and women by donating used cell phones.
"We're asking Americans to make a small sacrifice of support by donating their used cell phones, providing families with a much-needed connection to their loved ones overseas," says Brittany Bergquist, Cell Phones for Soldiers co-founder.
Home Properties residents can donate their old cell phones to the cause at any one of almost 120 Home Properties locations in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The goal of the collection drive is to collect 5,000 phones in three months. Non-residents are also invited to participate. To find a drop-off location near you, visit http://www.homeproperties.com and utilize the map to search in your area.
"We're proud to show our support for U.S. soldiers, and to work with our residents and employees to contribute to a worthy cause like Cell Phones for Soldiers," says Rosemarie Cook-Manley, Marketing Director at Home Properties.
Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization has raised millions of dollars in donations and distributed more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
"We have been overwhelmed by the generous support of thousands of Americans who have helped our troops speak with their loved ones," says the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "However the need for support keeps growing as more soldiers are sent to the Middle East or are asked to serve extended tours of duty."
Through increased fundraising efforts, the Bergquist family hopes to raise more than $9 million in the next five years to fund new programs, such as providing video phones to allow soldiers abroad to see their families on a regular basis.
The phones are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone -- enough to provide an hour of talk time to soldiers abroad.
Approximately half of the phones ReCellular processes are reconditioned and resold to wholesale companies in over 40 countries around the world. Phones and components that cannot be refurbished are dismantled and recycled to the highest environmental standards.
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 Comcast Cable's Eastern Division, Cell Phones For Soldiers And ReCellular Team Up To Connect Troops With Their Families This Father's Day And Year-Round
Cell Phones for Soldiers to Turn Donated Phones Into 18 Million Calling Card Minutes for U.S. Troops
Oaks, Pa. (June 12, 2008) - Today, Comcast Cable's Eastern Division announced a partnership with Cell Phones for Soldiers to make it easier for service members overseas to call home without calling collect. Comcast has collected nearly 300 older cell phones from employees throughout its Eastern Division, and has committed to donating up to 1,200 within the first year of the partnership. The phones will be sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone - enough to provide an hour of talk time in pre-paid calling cards to soldiers abroad.
The Cell Phones for Soldiers program works to turn old cell phones into more than 18 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect 25,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 10,000 collection sites across the country.
"Comcast is pleased to help provide opportunities for service members overseas to stay connected with their friends and families during special occasions like Father's Day and throughout the year," said Michael Doyle, president of Comcast Cable's Eastern Division and founder of CN8, The Comcast Network. "Comcast employs hundreds of veterans and service members throughout its footprint, and we are pleased to add this to our growing roster of public service programs and initiatives to support troop members and their families."
Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit organization has raised almost $2 million in donations and distributed more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
"Cell Phones for Soldiers started as a small way to show our family's appreciation for the men and women who have sacrificed the day-to-day contact with their own families to serve in the U.S. armed forces," said the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "Over the past few years, we have been overwhelmed by the generosity of others - but as more troops continue to serve overseas and for longer assignments, there is a continuing and growing need to expand our efforts."
Through increased fundraising efforts, the Bergquist family hopes to raise more than $9 million in the next five years to fund new programs, such as providing video phones and prepaid service to allow soldiers abroad to see and speak with their families on a regular basis.
"Americans will replace an estimated 130 million cell phones this year," said Mike Newman, vice president of ReCellular. "The majority of these phones either discarded or stuffed in a drawer - most people don't realize that the small sacrifice of donating their unwanted phones can have a tremendous benefit for a worthy cause like Cell Phones for Soldiers."
Approximately half of the phones ReCellular processes are reconditioned and resold to wholesale companies in more than 40 countries around the world. Phones and components that cannot be refurbished are dismantled and recycled to reclaim materials. This year alone, ReCellular expects to recycle one million pounds of scrap phones and accessories, and it works with recycling partners to reclaim materials from virtually every component donated, including:
• Gold, silver and platinum from circuit boards
• Copper wiring from phone chargers
• Nickel, iron, cadmium and lead from battery packs
• Plastic from phone cases and accessories
• Paper and cardboard from shipping materials used for donations
ReCellular has supported more than 2,000 national and local charities since pioneering its Charity Cell Phone Donation Program. In 2007 ReCellular raised $8 million for charities such as Cell Phones for Soldiers.
"One of the founding principles of ReCellular is to build a successful business that is both socially and environmentally responsible," added Newman. "It is a great honor and privilege to support such a worthy and inspiring effort as the Bergquists' Cell Phones for Soldiers, and we are delighted to see companies like Comcast joining in the campaign."
Partnering with Cell Phones for Soldiers is just one of the many ways Comcast shows its support for America's troops. From signature "Get Local" programs like Troop Greetings ON DEMAND, a service that allows military personnel stationed overseas to send special holiday greetings to their loved ones back home, to military-focused investments, volunteerism and programming, Comcast helps connect service members and their families to what matters most in their lives. Most recently, Comcast's Eastern Division made military service graduations from the Air Force, Naval Academy and West Point available to its Digital Cable subscribers through its Local Video ON DEMAND service, allowing customers to watch at their own convenience from home, with the ability to pause, fast-forward and rewind.
About Comcast
Headquartered in Philadelphia, Comcast Cable is a division of Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com), the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. With 24.7 million cable customers, 14.1 million high-speed Internet customers and 5.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's Eastern Division serves almost 5.4 million customers along the New York to DC corridor, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia and North Carolina. The Eastern Division also founded and manages CN8, The Comcast Network, one of the nation's largest and most honored regional 24-hour diversified television networks, seen by more than nine million homes on the East Coast. The Eastern Division employs approximately 18,000 people and is based in Oaks, Pennsylvania.
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The CIGNA Falmouth Road Race is proud to announce that they will partner with the Norwell-based group Cell Phones for Soldiers
Brittany and Robbie Bergquist are teenage siblings who didn't even own a cell phone in 2004, when they heard that an Army reservist faced a $7,600 bill for making calls home from Iraq. The two teens decided to try and help pay his bill. They took their piggybank funds and talked to their friends in an effort to help pay the bill.
They founded Cell Phones for Soldiers based on three ideas: most people have an old, inactive cell phone lying around; they'd probably donate it to the right cause; and they would agree that, as Brittany puts it, "Everyone has a right to call home."
In three years, an effort that began with a piggybank raid and a car wash has turned into a booming home-front charity — one that has turned its founders' lives upside down and won them devoted friends throughout the military and beyond.
Cell Phones for Soldiers solicits unwanted cell phones, sells them to a recycler and uses the money to buy pre-paid phone cards that are shipped to the war zone.
Race co-director John Carroll stated, "We are very happy to work with CPFS. Our goal is to collect over 2,500 phones. Most people have one or more old phones at home. They need to bring them with them when they come to get their numbers. We will take all types of cell phones."
"I believe," Carroll continued, "that any phone CPFS gets can is worth $5 of free minutes in a call home for some soldier overseas. CPFS recycles the phones, gets money for them, and then turns the cash into phone cards that are distributed to the men and women overseas. We have a lot of phones laying around, that could help a lot of troops call their families."
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The 2008 New England Innovation Awards "Patriot Award" has been presented to Brittany and Robbie Bergquist
The 2008 New England Innovation Awards "Patriot Award" was presented to Brittany Bergquist and Robbie Bergquist, CellPhonesForSoldiers.com, by SBANE Chairman, Ed Estrowski, at the special gala dinner May 7, 2008. Brittany and Robbie were honored for their outstanding and unselfish service to our fellow countrymen. SBANE is proud to recognize those whose efforts make a difference in our daily lives and contribute toward the sustainability of our programs here and abroad.
 
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 HOAR Program Management and Cell Phones for Soldiers Kick off Cell Phone Drive for the Month of June
As we all prepare for Independence Day and a salute to the men and women serving this country, Hoar Program Management will be sponsoring cell phone drop boxes at the following program management offices from June 6, 2008 through June 28, 2008:
- Birmingham, AL
- Tuscaloosa, AL
- Houston, TX
- Dallas, TX
Each location will also be accepting prepaid calling cards and checks made out to Cell Phones for Soldiers. The Birmingham office will close the collection drive with an event at Veteran's Park on June 28, 2008 in Birmingham, AL.
Our goal is to collect enough phones and money to supply 1,000 hours of talk time to our soldiers overseas.
For details, please see our website at http://www.hoarpm.com/community_service/default.aspx or from the main Hoar Program Management website http://www.hoarpm.com/ by going to the "About HPM" selection and scrolling to "Community Service".
We look forward to a successful drive and appreciate everyone who participates and contributes as we support our soldiers who are away from their families serving to protect us and preserve the freedoms that generation after generation has fought for.
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Join "THE DJ" As He Camps Some 20-Feet High On A Tower To Raise Funds For Cell Phones For Soldiers
Tupelo, Ms - For every dollar you donate you will be entered into a drawing to win one of many fabulous prizes! |
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 AT&T and Cell Phone for Soldiers Celebrate Fleet Week
Eight hundred hours of talk time. That's what one Army unit in Iraq will get thanks to a group of Hawaii second graders.
Carson Risdon's Dad is in Iraq, and everytime the phone rings he hopes it will be his father on the other end. "I just like my dad calling, it's really fun I don't get to talk to him much because theres a web cam thing that won't work," Risdon said. |
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 Hawaii Second Graders Donated Cell Phones For Soldiers
Eight hundred hours of talk time. That's what one Army unit in Iraq will get thanks to a group of Hawaii second graders.
Carson Risdon's Dad is in Iraq, and everytime the phone rings he hopes it will be his father on the other end. "I just like my dad calling, it's really fun I don't get to talk to him much because theres a web cam thing that won't work," Risdon said. |
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 Teens help troops stay in touch
The teenage Bergquists were invited to attend and be honored yesterday at Shinnyo-En Hawaii's 10th annual Memorial Day floating lantern ceremony. They were to go to Holy Family Catholic Academy to pick up hundreds of cell phones collected by students and to give phone cards to children of deployed military. |
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 Businesses help troops call home
The owner of Helen's Haven, a tiny spa on Kilauea Avenue, is helping a national nonprofit called Cell Phones for Soldiers meet its goal of 15,000 donated cell phones each month to help American military people overseas stay in touch with their loved ones at home. |
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Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
The organization's founders, Brittany Bergquist, 17, and her brother, Robbie, 16, sell the phones to a recycler and use the money to buy prepaid phone cards ...
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Cell Phones for Soldiers and Pak Mail kicks off national cell phone collection drive
Cell Phones for Soldiers and Pak Mail, the world's premier business solutions center with 430 U.S. locations and 60 international sites, are calling on all Americans to support the brave men and women serving abroad by donating your unused cell phones. Local residents can support the collection drive by donating their phones at any Pak Mail location. To find a location near you visit www.pakmail.com and utilize the zip code finder. |
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Teens help troops phone home
NORWELL, Mass. — At the holidays, for a soldier at war, there's nothing like a phone call home. Brittany and Robbie Bergquist have provided more than $1.4 million worth of them — 24 million precious minutes. The Bergquists are teenage siblings who didn't even own a cellphone in 2004, when they heard that an Army reservist faced a $7,600 bill for making calls home from Iraq. |
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 Britany & Robbie Win Microsoft Above and Beyond Youth Leadership Award
Sister and brother Brittany and Robbie Bergquist created their program, Cell Phones for Soldiers, in 2004 when they were 13 and 12 years old, respectively. They learned of a soldier who had run up a cell phone bill of nearly $8,000 calling home to his family. Having a cousin serving in Iraq at the time made them realize the importance of keeping in touch with loved ones. |
Read the full release at www.microsoft.com Read more about the star-studded awards ceremony
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 Cell Phones Can Turn Into Calling Cards For Soldiers
Fox 2 News, St. Louis - Your old cell phone can help a soldier stay in touch with family. FOX 2's Bonita Cornute tells us how a program called “Cell Phones For Soldiers” brings comfort to military families. O'Fallon, Illinois VFW Post 805 helps collect the wireless treasures. The trade off – one old phone generates two new phone cards! |
View the video at www.myfoxstl.com
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 Santa Rita Teams up with CPFS to Salute Our Armed Forces
From September 1 through December 31, 2007, a portion of the proceeds of Santa Rita wines sold at participating retailers will be donated to Cell Phones for Soldiers, an organization that provides pre-paid phone cards to our armed forces overseas. Santa Rita’s goal is to raise $100,000 towards phone cards for our service men and women serving abroad this holiday season.
In addition, Santa Rita is sponsoring the placement of cell phone drop boxes throughout the country, running local radio and newspaper advertising, and attaching coupons and information to its bottles on store shelves. To order a drop box or to donate your cell phone, visit www.santaritacares.com. |
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 NEED FLOWERS?
Cell Phones for Soldiers recently collaborated with Rosemont Floral in the Touching Hearts Fundraising Partnership to raise money for phone cards to help troops abroad call home. When you use Rosemont Floral for flower orders over $25.00, a contribution of $3.00 will be go directly towards Cell Phones for Soldiers. Orders can be placed for across town or across the country. Just mention the Touching Hearts ID: SOLDIERS and Rosemont Floral will take care of the rest. If you order online, simply enter SOLDIERS into the comments field. Share the Touching Hearts Fundraising Partnership information with friends and family and help Rosemont Floral raise funds and awareness about this much need service. Don’t forget to send flowers to all those Dads n’Grads in your life! |
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 Cell phones aiding soldiers
DO YOU have a couple of old cell phones lying around, and you don’t know what to do with them? Give them to a good cause — Cell Phones for Soldiers.
In conjunction with Veterans Day, AT&T-owned stores nationwide — including the Ohio Valley Mall location — are asking Americans to drop off all their used cell phones to benefit a charitable program that helps U.S. military families stay connected. There is a box stationed at the entrance to the Ohio Valley Mall store. |
Read more at www.timesleaderonline.com
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Support for Cell Phones for Soldiers drive continues to grow
Florida - From sadness comes hope as woman honors her nephew. When Alixis Mendez Hull’s nephew, Cpl. Justin R. Garcia, died late last year in Iraq, the resident of the Village of Florida looked to honor his memory and his service. “Justin’s story is a poignant one and he left an inspiring legacy,” Hull said. |
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 Girl Scouts helping servicemen
With almost everyone including kindergartners carrying cell phones these days, it’s often hard to decide what to do with an old lifeline that has seen better days. That’s where the girls of Bremerton’s Girl Scout Troop 50599 are waiting to lend a helping hand. The troop recently joined the nationwide Cell Phones for Soldiers program and is collecting cell phones, which are recycled for cash and those proceeds are used to purchase prepaid calling cards for soldiers serving in the Middle East. |
Read more by visiting www.centralkitsapreporter.com
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 Hours Add Up to Free Minutes
Working around school activities such as Brittany's softball practices and Robbie's soccer games, they spend two to three hours a day sorting phones and labeling envelopes. There is little or no time for TV and video games. |
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 Turner Motorsports Team raises more than $25,000 for CPFS!
Robbie and Brittany donate pre-paid calling cards before the race for deployed service members from NC. |
Read full press release at www.turnermotorsportsllc.com
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 Tax Service Sends Out Cell Phones
for Troops
MARTINSBURG: Twenty-seven thousand minutes of time to call home — that’s what troops in Iraq will be getting, thanks to the Martinsburg branch of Liberty Tax Service and the “Cell Phones For Soldiers” program. |
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 AT&T launches Cell Phones for Soldiers
Along with the traditional fireworks and cookouts, there is a new way to celebrate Independence Day — donating old cell phones at AT&T Inc. stores, where a Massachusetts-based charity will sell them to buy prepaid phone cards for U.S. soldiers deployed abroad. |
| Read the full story at www.nhregister.com |
 Free calls keep troops in touch
Carrollton clan among those helped by Cell Phones for Soldiers
Ashley Parker's husband left Wednesday afternoon. The 25-year-old Carrollton mother of 6-week-old Caleb said the separation is tremendously difficult. "This is the third time he's left," Mrs. Parker said. "When he does this, we normally only talk once a week." |
| Read the full story at www.dallasnews.com |
 Brittany Bergquist recognized as one of the
'Best & Brightest'
Norwell - Thirteen local students were honored by Community Newspaper Co. as The Best & The Brightest in an award ceremony last week. The Best & The Brightest is a recognition program designed to spotlight outstanding young adults in communities covered by CNC’s local newspapers. |
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 AT&T Supports Cell Phones for Soldiers
A long-standing mission of AT&T is helping connect military families. Cell Phones for Soldiers, initiated in 2004 by 16-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her 15-year-old brother Robbie, uses funds from recycled cell phones to buy prepaid phone cards for active duty military members – to help connect them with their families. |
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 UBNC donates proceeds from 'Third Annual Soldier Down Poker Run'
Special thanks to the United Bikers of Northern California, Yuba-Sutter Chapter, for donating proceeds from their 'Third Annual Soldier Down Poker Run' to the Cell Phones for Soldiers program! |
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 Keep those phones ‘rolling’ in
William Duvall, left, Rolling Thunder Communications sales representative; Arlene Sexton, vice president; Joseph Sexton, left, president; Christina Gali, sales representative, Michael McNamee, cell phone assistant to Bob Martell; and Martell, vice commander for the American Legion Post 488, display an additional donation of 150 cell phones collected recently through the efforts of Rolling Thunder Communications in Monroe. That brings the total number of cell phones donated to 850 from this area for the “Cell Phones for Soldiers” campaign. |
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 Teens’ Program Keeps Troops Connected
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 - Two Massachusetts teens are working to turn Americans’ unwanted cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid talk time for the nation’s troops. “Cell Phones for Soldiers is the original (cell phone) recycling program created to benefit the troops and provide free prepaid calling cards and communication assistance to military members and their families,” said Brittany Bergquist, one of the group’s founders. |
| Read the full story at www.americasupportsyou.com |
 RMV Partners with CPFS
The Registry of Motor Vehicles has announced a partnership with Cell Phones for Soldiers to benefit Massachusetts soldiers serving in the Middle East. The phone donation program will run throughout the Summer of 2007. |
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 Helping Soldiers Phone Home
Brittany and Robbie Bergquist collect used cell phones and recycle them for cash to purchase phone cards for troops. They recently partnered with AT&T to make cell phone drop-off boxes available in stores. NBC's Lester Holt reports. |
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 Cell Phones for Soldiers Featured on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
(CBS) For a 7-year-old who's missing his daddy and a father thousands of miles away at war, a phone call is not just a chance to catch up: It's the only way to cope, CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reports. |
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 Westshore Wireless Grand Opening Offers Free Phone Calls
Westshore Wireless is celebrating the grand opening of its North Ridgeville store at 34301 Center Ridge Road on Saturday, June 9, by offering free phone calls to soldiers from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. T-Mobile will provide five-minute phone calls from three dedicated lines to individuals who sign in beginning at 9:30 a.m. |
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 WWII Vet Notes Cell Phone's Value
to Troops
Blackanthem Military News, WASHINGTON, D.C. – When Purple Heart recipient Earl "Scotty" MacKenzie was a World War II Army sergeant, communications with loved ones back home from the South Pacific where he was serving were extremely... |
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Computers West Club of Sun City West becomes official collection point
The Computers West Club of Sun City West announced that it has become an official collection point for donations of cell phones for the “Cell Phones for Soldiers” program. Cell phones may be dropped off at the Palm Ridge Rec Center at 13800 W Deer Valley Drive from 8:00am to 4:00pm Monday through Friday.Telephone 623-214-1546. |
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 Kelly is collection point
Kelly Services has joined the Cell Phones for Soldiers program as an official cell phone collection point. Kelly Services is situated at 1705 Village Park Drive in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Cell phones may be dropped off there during normal business hours. |
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 Scholarship to be dedicated in honor, memory of Joseph Finn
Cell Phones for Soldiers will be collaborating with Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island to create a scholarship dedicated in honor to the memory of Joseph Finn, an alumnus of the university. More information regarding the Joseph Finn scholarship will be provided soon. |
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 Daredevil blasts back to support troops
The 44-year-old Pinckney daredevil brought his "Human Firecracker" act out of retirement to help spur donations of cell phones and phone cards for U.S. troops as part of the Cell Phones for Soldiers drive. |
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 Brittany Bergquist meets with President Bush in the Oval Office
The leaders of several grassroots organizations associated with the Pentagon's America Supports You program met today at the White House to discuss their efforts to support the men and women of the U.S. armed forces with President Bush and first lady Laura Bush. |
| Read more at www.americasupportsyou.com |
 Senator Bill Larkin announces that his district office will serve as a collection site for Cell Phone For Soldiers
Americans are expected to replace an estimated 130 million cell phones this year. The majority of those phones are thrown in the trash or stuffed in a drawer. "We could turn those old unwanted cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas in 2008 alone," said Senator Larkin. |
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 Fairfax County Teen Centers and Cell Phones for Soldiers Kick Off Cell Phone Collection Drive
Fairfax County Community and Recreation Teen Centers and Cell Phones for Soldiers are calling on all residents to support these brave men and women by donating your unused cell phones. Teen Centers are asking residents to make a small sacrifice of support by donating their unused cell phones and any accessories, providing families with a much-needed connection to their loved ones overseas. It's free and convenient to turn in your used cell phone.
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