LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- (Business Wire)
On Saturday, April 26, more than 2,000 local Comcast employees and their
families, friends and community partners will “make change happen” as
they volunteer to improve the facilities at more than a dozen volunteer
sites across Washington as part of Comcast’s 13th Comcast
Cares Day.
Comcast Cares Day, which takes place each April during National
Volunteer Month, is Comcast and NBCUniversal’s signature day of service
and the nation’s largest single-day corporate volunteer effort.
Here is a list of projects in Western Washington and Spokane:
Aberdeen: Grays
Harbor Historical Seaport Authority. This group recently took over a
large area that it will turn into a port museum that provides a base for
tall ships. Besides doing a lot of cleanup on the 80 acres, Comcasters
and other community volunteers will assemble guard rails for later
installation. Once those are installed, people will be able to walk
along a historic dock area right along the water.
Bellingham: Camp
Kirby, in partnership with Camp Fire Samish. Comcasters will help
get the camp ready for summer. Volunteers will be cleaning and vacuuming
the main lodge and kitchen, as well as building and lining shelves in
the kitchen and wash pit, and pressure washing the cabin roofs and
re-staining the climbing wall. Volunteers will also be painting the
totem pole with linseed oil, getting the archery range ready for use,
and performing general cleanup of small limbs and brush.
Bremerton: Bremerton
Teen Center with the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound. The
Comcast Foundation has already provided technology for the new center as
part of a three-year commitment. Saturday, our employees (who are based
in an office only about a block away) will plant landscaping and
otherwise beautify the area.
Everett: Cascade
Boys & Girls Club, in cooperation with the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Snohomish County. Volunteers will be improving a computer lab and
painting, cleaning carpets, landscaping, building shelves, and helping
to provide a new “tween, teen” area. Comcasters will also be building an
educational vegetable garden for the kids to raise their own plants as
they study healthy eating habits. Employees will also be painting the
gymnasium and polishing the floor. And employees will replace a bike
rack that was stolen and anchor it to the concrete.
Everett: Forest
Park. Forest Park is a 197-acre wooded park that is Everett’s oldest
and largest park. Projects will include forest planting, light pruning,
weeding such as removing invasive species, and trail work, garden bed
clean up, revitalization and beautification. City officials say this
will be the largest volunteer effort of its kind to date in that park.
Federal Way: Camp
Kilworth, Boy Scouts Camp in partnership with Boy Scouts of
America/Pacific Harbors Council #612. Comcasters will help this camp get
ready for the summer camping season. Projects include pressure washing
the camp stage, the fire bowl areas, the front of lodge and walk ways.
Volunteers will also be digging holes for flag poles and the obstacle
course, repainting the archery range backstop, replacing flooring in
campsite stage area, installing posts and replacing cargo netting on the
obstacle course, building fire pits, digging ditches and installing the
flag poles.
Kirkland:Juanita
High School. Employees will beautify the school by removing
overgrowth and debris, spreading decorative mulch, pulling weeds and
planting flowers.
Orting: Washington
Soldiers’ Home. Comcast employees will build a new storage shed to
house equipment for the community baseball fields, paint protective
coatings on handrails and porches, stain park benches and perform
general landscaping. More projects are planned for the adjacent
cemetery, including cleaning headstones, painting wood structures and
landscaping.
Seattle: International
District neighborhood cleanup. This is, geographically speaking, one
of the largest projects Comcast in Washington has ever taken on.
Comcasters will partner with the “ID Spring Clean” annual event to
gather nearly 600 volunteers collectively and give the historic
neighborhood some overdue revitalization. This is also a record for
number of wonderful partners Comcast in Washington has worked with on
one project. Here’s a partial list:
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Seattle Chinatown/International District Preservation and Development
Authority (SCIDpda)
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International Examiner
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InterIm Community Development Association (InterIm CDA)
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Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS)
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National Assoc. of Asian American Professionals -Seattle
(NAAAP-Seattle)
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International Community Health Services (ICHS)
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Chinese Information Service Center (CISC)
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Nikkei Concerns
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Asian Community Leadership Foundation (ACLF)
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Chinatown/International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA)
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Denise Louie Education Center (DLEC)
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Tet in Seattle (TIS)
Spokane: Lisa
Stiles-Gyllenhammer Club in Mead, for the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Spokane County. Comcasters will paint, clean, build cabinets and make
other improvements to make the complex bright and happy for youth.
Tacoma: Multicultural
Child and Family Hope Center. Among the projects here is
weatherizing their play area, creating a new area to sort and store
donations, planting a garden and painting a mural. Comcasters will also
be building picnic tables, tearing down an old greenhouse, and erecting
a new greenhouse in its place.
Tenino: Wolf
Haven. Comcasters will be installing chain link and cedar fencing,
replacing siding, painting indoors and outdoors, and doing some grounds
cleaning such as pulling weeds and raking debris.
Various locations: This year, a team is organizing four blood
drives in Auburn, Fife, Puyallup and Spokane, in cooperation with
Cascade Regional Blood Services and Inland Northwest Blood Center.
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 $14 million in grants to partner organizations to match the efforts
of our volunteers on Comcast Cares Day.
Comcast has been committed to serving local communities since our
founding more than 50 years ago. For more information on Comcast’s
volunteer and community investment initiatives, visit www.comcast.com/community.
To follow activities in Washington, one can monitor the @ComcastWA
Twitter feed. The hashtag across the country and all social media
platforms is #CCDay.
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NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is the nation's largest video, high-speed
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Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations,
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About the Comcast Foundation
The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast Corporation in June 1999
to provide charitable support to qualified non-profit organizations. The
Foundation primarily invests in programs intended to have a positive,
sustainable impact on their communities. The Foundation has three
community investment priorities—promoting service, expanding digital
literacy, and building tomorrow’s leaders. Since its inception, the
Comcast Foundation has donated nearly $140 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.
Contacts:
Comcast
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Walter_Neary@cable.comcast.com
@wtneary
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