Knoxville-based Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest retailer of Verison Wireless and one of the top 100 fastest-growing companies in the United States according to Inc. Magazine, has launched a partnership with Cell Phones for Soldiers. When customers drop off used cell phones at Cellular Sales Verizon Wireless stores, those used phones are trade for calling cards that are then given to U.S. service men and women serving abroad.
Dane Scism, founder and CEO of Cellular Sales, says the company rolled out the campaign in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, but anticipates his company will take the program national.
Cell Phones for Soldiers was started in 2004 by two teenagers in Norwell, Mass. Starting with just $21, the brother and sister team has now raised $2 million in donations and distributed more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
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