Enhancing Quality of Life in the Neighborhoods We Serve ... It's What RadioShack Corporate Citizenship Is All About

RadioShack believes in helping people get more out of technology, and we believe in improving the lives of the people who live in the communities we serve. That’s why we focus our efforts on improving education, environmental sustainability, and on protecting our children.

Helping Prepare Youth to Succeed

RadioShack is committed to strengthening educational opportunities for young people, particularly those living with social, economic, or educational challenges. We also believe in helping students, teachers, and parents make the most of the opportunities technology has to offer. We proudly support organizations like Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), a non-profit organization that organizes, motivates, and trains university students to form “management teams” that design, develop and implement thousands of community-based micro-businesses. Through such support, RadioShack encourages all young people to aspire to be the best they can be. More

Preserving Our Environment

RadioShack believes that working to conserve and enhance the environment makes good business sense.

That is why RadioShack stores and participating RadioShack dealers help make it easy to recycle rechargeable batteries once they've worn out. Through our partnership with the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC), consumers can drop off rechargeable batteries for recycling at thousands of RadioShack locations in the United States at no cost. Recycling rechargeable batteries helps save natural resources and keeps recyclable batteries out of solid waste landfills.

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation and RadioShack also have teamed up to recycle used cell phones. For every cell phone collected at a RadioShack store location, and subsequently refurbished and resold, $1 will be contributed to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. More

Travelling with Batteries

When you fly with battery-powered hobby items, toys, or equipment, check out SafeTravel.dot.gov. This site is run by the U.S. Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), airlines, and others, to bring air travelers safety tips for flying with batteries.

Making the World a Safe Place for Children

In addition to contributions from cell phone recycling, RadioShack provides direct support to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and provides free child identification kits to schools, non-profit organizations and others concerned with child safety.

The Wireless AMBER Alerts service – a partnership between the wireless industry, law-enforcement agencies, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) – is an easy and simple way for everyone to get involved in protecting children. Through the Wireless Amber Alert service, subscribers receive a text message on their wireless device when a missing-child alert is distributed. In missing-child cases, getting information out fast is a key to recovering the child safely.

RadioShack also supports the ADAM fax program, prominently displaying posters provided by NCMEC to engage the public in helping locate missing children. RadioShack is the largest single-source distributor of ADAM fax posters in the country. More

For more information, stop by any of RadioShack's more than 6,000 convenient neighborhood locations. Click here to find a location near you.