Awards & Recognition

2010

1Q

SaVoy Professional Magazine honored Ralph Reid, VP Corporate Responsibility, as one of the 2010 Top 100 Blacks in Corporate America.

2Q

INGRAMS (Kansas City Business Magazine) selected Yijing Brentano among the 2010 Class of Ingram’s 40 Under Forty honorees.

Black Achievers in Business & Industry Award was given to Arthur Glass, Manager Applications Development - IT, and Mark Evans, Manager Sports Marketing.

CivilianJobs.com selected Sprint as the 2010 Most Valuable Employers for Military Award which recognizes employers who value military service experience and what it represents, provide a supportive work environment and programs which support the military, as well as career advancement. Sprint was a recipient of this award in 2009 also.

Sprint was awarded the Sustainability Leadership Award at 2010 International Electronics Recycling Conference & Expo.

Sprint garnered PRSA Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence in the category of Marketing Consumer Products – Technology. Sprint was recognized for the launch of Samsung Reclaim for the entry, Sprint and Samsung Make it Easy to Be Green.

Boost Mobile’s campaign, Boost Mobile Gives its Brand a Boost with Monthly Unlimited Plan and Sales Soar was recognized as a PRSA Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence in the category Marketing Consumer Services – Technology.

Boost Mobile was honored by The American Business Awards which were created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people.

• Boost Mobile Best Technology Ads & Campaigns for “unwronged”
• Business Turnaround of the Year - Up to 2,500 Employees

Sprint received a 2010 gold-level award for the Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles. The award recognizes large U.S. employers for their continuing efforts to promote healthy work environments and encourage workers to live healthier lifestyles.

Sprint received the No. 3 ranking among all industry sectors, on the Everything Channel’s VAR500 list of North America’s top technology integrators for 2010.

3Q

Sprint was named one of the 40 Best Companies for Diversity by Black Enterprise magazine for demonstrating a commitment to diversity in one or more of four key areas: board of directors, employee base, senior management and supplier diversity.

Forbes named Sprint one of the “Top 20 Most Responsible Companies” for advanced policies on diversity and a diversity officer; promotes diversity initiatives among its suppliers.

Sprint IT has been recognized in the 2010 InfoWeek 500 and we placed at #59 on the list of Top 500 leading U.S users of business technology for our work on Storage Virtualization and Application Portfolio Management (APM).

DiversityPlus magazine recognized Joyce Christanio as a 2010 Champion of Diversity.

Sprint was awarded the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) President's Award at the Fire Rescue International Conference in Chicago August 23-27, 2010.

Sprint ranked No. 6 in Newsweek’s second annual green ranking. The ranking recognizes Sprint for using renewable energy sources, such as hydrogen fuel cells, to replace backup generators at its cell towers, offering a portfolio of three environmentally friendly mobile phones, the most of any wireless carrier in the U.S., and being the first U.S.-based wireless provider to announce a target for reducing its absolute greenhouse-gas emissions.

2009

Sprint received a 2009 gold-level award for the Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles. The award recognizes large U.S. employers for their continuing efforts to promote healthy work environments and encourage workers to live healthier lifestyles.

Newsweek magazine honored Sprint as a leading green U.S. corporation. Sprint was listed as 15th out of 500 on Newsweek’s 2009 Green Ratings list.

The Orange County Register recognized Boost Mobile’s Irvine, Calif. headquarters on its 2009 list of “Top Workplaces” in Orange County. Also received the category award for best “Work/Life Flexibility”.

The Orange County Business Journal recognized Boost Mobile’s Irvine, Calif. headquarters on its 2009 list of “Best Places to Work in OC”.

Sprint received a 100% perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for the 5th year in a row. The HRC CEI has become a roadmap and benchmarking tool for US businesses in the evolving field of GLBT equality in the workplace.

Sprint was named to Hispanic Business Magazines’ Diversity Elite 60 and was featured in the September 2009 Hispanic Business Magazine issue.

CivilianJobs.com recognized Sprint as one of the 2009 Most Valuable Employers for Military. The winners and finalists were selected based on surveys in which employers outlined their 2009 recruiting, training and retention plans that best serve military service members and veterans.

Kansas City Business Journal awarded Sprint with the Community Star Award and the Large Business Award.

Selling Power Magazine listed Sprint #25 on “The 25 Best Service Companies to Sell For”.

Orange County Business Journal listed Boost Mobile as One of the Best Places to Work.

Radio Shack awarded Sprint the 2009 Mobility MVP Vendor of the Year award.

2008

BusinessWeek

Sprint named one of the top 100 companies in BusinessWeek’s 2008 “Best Places to Launch a Career” survey.

Conceive Magazine

Conceive Magazine ranked Sprint in the “Top 50” most family-friendly companies in America for its fertility and adoption benefits.

DiversityInc.

Sprint ranked #35 out of 352 companies that participated in DiversityInc.’s 2008 Top 50 Companies for Diversity Survey.

Environmental Protection Agency - Climate Leaders Partner

Sprint is among the large corporations partnering with the EPA to develop corporate climate-change strategies through greenhouse-gas reduction.

Environmental Protection Agency - Green Power Purchaser

Sprint ranked 15th on EPA’s Fortune 500 Green Power Purchaser’s list.

Environmental Protection Agency - Plug-In To Ecycling partner

As a partner in this program, Sprint encourages consumers to “e-cycle” their wireless devices and sponsors wireless recycling program.

G.I. Jobs Magazine

For the sixth year in a row, Sprint Nextel has been recognized as one of the “Top 50 Most Military-Friendly Employers,” which ranks companies based on the strength of the companies' recruiting efforts, the percentage of new hires with prior military service and the companies' policies toward National Guard and reserve service.

Hispanic Enterprise

Hispanic Enterprise included Sprint on its list of Top 50 Corporations ranking for Supplier Diversity.

Human Rights Campaign

For the fourth consecutive year, Sprint received a perfect 100 percent score on the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.

National Business Group on Health

Sprint received a 2008 gold-level award for the Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles. The award recognizes large U.S. employers for their continuing efforts to promote healthy work environments and encourage workers to live healthier lifestyles.

PR News Corporate Social Responsibility Awards

Sprint received the PR News CSR Community Affairs Honorable Mention Award for its 4NetSafety program.

Texas State Board of Education

Sprint received a Gold Level Employers for Education Excellence Award for its policies promoting employee engagement in parent-teacher conferences, school-based volunteer activities and youth-mentoring programs.

2007

Best Buy

Best Buy presented Sprint its Best Buy Bravo! award for outstanding vendor performance in the wireless category.

Billboard Magazine

MANA was selected as one of the top 10 Artists “Wireless Winners” based on their Sprint’s Hispanic Power Vision program.

BusinessWeek

Sprint named one of the top 50 companies in BusinessWeek’s 2007  “Best Places to Launch a Career” survey.

ComPsych

Sprint's employee-wellness program wins a gold-level ComPsych Health at Work^SM Award.

DiversityBusiness.com

DiversityBusiness.com included Sprint on its Top 40 companies ranking for Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities.

DiversityInc

Sprint ranked 28 out of 317 companies on DiversityInc.’s 2007 Top 50 Companies for Diversity listing; Sprint’s Hispanic Marketing programs recognized as one of the 3 best of all times.

Environmental Protection Agency  -  Climate Leaders Partner

Sprint is among the large corporations partnering with the EPA to develop corporate climate-change strategies through greenhouse gas reduction.

Environmental Protection Agency - Green Power Partner

In 2007, the EPA named Sprint a national leader in green power purchasers.

Environmental Protection Agency  -  Plug-In To Ecycling partner

As a partner in this program, Sprint encourages consumers to “e-cycle” their wireless devices and sponsors wireless recycling program.

FORTUNE Magazine

Sprint Nextel ranked #53 overall and #16 on FORTUNE’s 20 Great Employers for New Grads list; Sprint Nextel was recognized for its competitive employee offerings such as a development program, a wellness program and full medical benefits.

G.I. Jobs Magazine

For the fifth year in a row, Sprint Nextel has been recognized as one of the “Top 50 Most Military-Friendly Employers,” which ranks companies based on the strength of the companies’ recruiting efforts, the percentage of new hires with prior military service and the companies’ policies toward National Guard and reserve service.

HISPANIC Magazine

Sprint was recognized on the Magazine’s 2007 Top Companies for Hispanics list.

Hispanic Business Magazine

Sprint named to Hispanic Business Magazine’s Diversity Elite list, which ranks the top 60 companies for diversity.

Human Rights Campaign

Sprint Nextel named one of the HRC's Best Places to Work for 2007.

Human Rights Campaign

For the third consecutive year, Sprint received a perfect 100 percent score on the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.

InformationWeek 500

Sprint’s IT organization named among the Top 250 IT (Information Technology) shops, recognizing excellence in innovation and business technology leadership.

LATINA Style Magazine

Sprint receives an Honorable Mention in LATINA Style Magazine’s annual diversity ranking.

Marketing y Medios

Selected two Sprint Nextel Spanish language ads among the top 13 (out of 200 entries submitted) for best work in the Hispanic Market.

National Business Group on Health

Sprint received a silver-level Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles award; The award recognizes large U.S. employers for their continuing efforts to promote healthy work environments and encourage workers to live healthier lifestyles.

National Committee of Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR)

Sprint received the ESGR Award in recognition of going above and beyond the legal requirements for granting leave for military duty.

National Minority Supplier Development Council

NMSDC appointed Sprint to their National Board of Directors.

Urban League of Greater Kansas City

The Urban League of Greater Kansas City recognized Sprint with an Equalizer Award for advancing corporate diversity and inclusion.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Sprint was listed on the EPA’s National Top 25 Green Power Partners due to the wind power used on Sprint’s campus.

Veteran Business Journal

Veteran Business Journal recognized Sprint on its Top 10 Most Veteran Friendly Corporate Supplier Diversity Programs list.