Volunteers working on almost one hundred projects from the Panhandle
down to the Florida Keys
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- (Business Wire)
Today on the 15th annual Comcast
Cares Day, thousands of Florida Comcast
NBCUniversal employees, their families, friends and community
partners will “make change happen” as they volunteer on more than 95
different community service projects across the state.
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Volunteers plant bushes at Jean Ribault Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida as a part of the 15th annual Comcast Cares Day. (Photo: Business Wire)
Comcast Cares Day, which takes place each April during National
Volunteer Month, is Comcast NBCUniversal’s companywide celebration of
their year-round commitment to service and the nation’s largest
single-day corporate volunteer effort in the country.
In Florida, volunteers are working on a variety of Comcast Cares Day
projects today, including:
This year, the Company expects more than 100,000 Comcast and
NBCUniversal volunteers to participate in more than 800 projects across
the country and around the globe. To date, volunteers have contributed
more than 4 million service hours to improve nearly 7,000 projects in
the U.S. and around the world since Comcast Cares Day started in 2001.
“Year after year, our Florida Comcast employees, their families and
friends and community volunteers come out in full force to improve our
communities on Comcast Cares Day,” said Amy Smith, Regional Senior Vice
President of the Comcast Florida Region. “As we celebrate our 15th
annual Comcast Cares Day, I am amazed and proud of all that we’ll
accomplish on our projects throughout the state and know the work done
today will have a lasting and positive effect on our communities.”
The Comcast Foundation will also provide grants to local community
partner organizations across the country on behalf of everyone who
volunteers on Comcast Cares Day. The grants will help Comcast’s
community partners continue their mission of serving the community
throughout the year. To date, the Comcast Foundation has awarded more
than $18 million in grants to local non-profit organizations who have
partnered with us on Comcast Cares Day.
Additionally, this Comcast Cares Day the Company is folding in the broad
support and amplification of two other Company partnerships: Global
Citizen, who organize the annual music and advocacy-focused Global
Citizen Festival curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin that has aired on
MSNBC for the past few years, and Red
Nose Day, a special television event with top musical and comedy
performances that debuted on NBC last year. These initiatives aim to end
extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate
change globally and in the United States. By amplifying our support of
these initiatives on Comcast Cares Day, Comcast NBCUniversal is
providing additional ways to help drive positive change in our
communities.
Comcast has been committed to serving local communities since our
founding more than 50 years ago. For more information on Comcast
NBCUniversal volunteer and community investment initiatives, visit www.comcast.com/community.
About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq:CMCSA) is a global media and technology
company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal.
Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video, high-speed Internet
and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand and
also provides these services to businesses. NBCUniversal operates news,
entertainment and sports cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast
networks, television production operations, television station groups,
Universal Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com
for more information.
About the Comcast Foundation
The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast Corporation in June 1999
to provide charitable support to qualified nonprofit organizations. The
Foundation primarily invests in programs intended to have a positive,
sustainable impact on their communities. The Foundation has three
community investment priorities—expanding digital literacy, promoting
community service, and building tomorrow’s leaders. Since its inception,
the Comcast Foundation has donated $176 million to organizations in the
communities nationwide that Comcast serves. More information about the
Foundation and its programs is available at www.comcast.com/community.
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