Cell Phones for Soldiers
Our Mission: Help our troops call home
Cell Phones for Soldiers (CPFS) was started in April 2004 by Brittany Bergquist and her brother Robbie, then 14 and 13 years old.
After hearing a news report about a local soldier who ran up a massive phone bill calling home from Iraq, the teens decided they wanted to do something to help. Brittany and Robbie donated money from their piggy banks, collected snack money from their friends at school and, with $21.00, opened a bank account.
Through generous donations and the recycling of cell phones, Brittany and Robbie use the proceeds to purchase prepaid phone cards and distribute them to soldiers overseas. AT&T has supported their efforts by donating half a million dollars in phone cards and has established CPFS drop off locations at each of its more than 2,000 company-owned stores across the U.S.
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