To provide rewarding community service experiences and fellowship
opportunities for all of our employees, retirees, and
their families.
To
provide value to sponsoring companies by:
- Generating brand
visibility
- Building teamwork and
developing leadership skills of employees
- Demonstrating the
corporate social commitment.
To enable our Life Members
to maintain strong ties to our sponsoring
companies.
To
be well-known as volunteers meeting a variety of community needs,
with special emphasis on education.
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PIONEERS ROLL OUT PROJECT:CONNECT
The Pioneers distributed more than 20,000 CDs of
the TelecomPioneer’s signature education project,
Project:Connect,
to schools throughout our nine-state region this year.
Project:Connect challenges students to
learn lessons in technology
by playing computer games featuring products and services of the
telecommunications industry. For details and a list of chapter
representatives, click here.
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PIONEERS FOCUS ON EDUCATION
The Pioneer Volunteers want to be known as “the
education volunteers” and have gone back to school to help strengthen the quality of
learning for youngsters in our community. This focus on education was created in 1994 to
channel the membership'’ energies, talents and commitment to the community in support
of our school systems. The Pioneers realize their potential, both individually and in
partnership with other groups, to have a significant impact on the crisis in education our
communities are experiencing today.
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JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
The Pioneers have also partnered with Junior Achievement
organizations in the southeast region. There is a mutual history between the
Telephone Pioneers and Junior Achievement, which has its roots in the
founding of our organizations. Theodore N. Vail, the first present of the
Telephone Pioneers, was also a co-founder, in 1919, of Junior Achievement.
Junior Achievement programs are recognized by educators for their success in
bringing outside business perspectives and role models into the classroom.
In the past year, the BellSouth Pioneer Volunteer conducted over 500 Junior
Achievement classes throughout the region.
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PIONEER TALKING BOOKS
In 1960 the Telephone Pioneers were designated the official
talking book repair group for the Library of Congress. Since then, Pioneers have repaired
some two million of the special cassette and record players used by the visually impaired
to listen to material they
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