CHICAGO-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation honored individuals and companies with its PCIA Foundation Leadership Awards during last week’s PCIA GlobalXChange show.
The awards included the Albert Gore Jr. LifePage Achievement Award, presented to companies or individuals who exemplify the program’s standards of leadership and service. The LifePage program provides free paging equipment and services to individuals on the national organ donor waiting list.
Among the recipients were Verizon Wireless Messaging Services of Hilliard, Ohio, for serving hopeful transplant recipients in Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania; The PageNet Customer Support Group of West Valley City, Utah, which distributes pagers to patients so that they can lead more normal lives as they wait for that life-saving call; Debbie Marquis of Metrocall in Pensacola, Fla., for going “above and beyond” to ensure that each patient carrying a Metrocall unit is comfortable with its use, coverage and service; and Sharon Weeks of Arch Wireless, whose team has increased the number of LifePage customers they serve by more than 6,000 people since she took over leadership of the program.
The Distinguished Corporate Citizen Award, was awarded in recognition of community service or outreach programs, other than LifePage, which use wireless technology.
This year’s recipients included Audiovox Communications Corp. for its support of the Community Action Life Line program, in which Audiovox donated 1,000 handsets to community organizations focusing on public safety such as park patrols, crossing guards and postal carriers; Motorola Inc. for its collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, in which Motorola contributed more than $300,000 in radio equipment linking the Galapagos Island reserve’s manager and officials; and Arch Wireless for its support of the National Kidney Foundations’s 2000 U.S. Transplant Games, in which Arch provided all the messaging devices and service to the volunteer team leaders and NKF staff for the event.
