BOSTON, April 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today more
than 3,500 local Comcast employees and their families, friends and
community partners will "make change happen" as they volunteer to
improve 25 sites across the Commonwealth as part of Comcast's
14th Comcast Cares Day.
Comcast Cares Day, which takes place each April during National
Volunteer Month and on the heels of Earth Week, Comcast Cares Day
is the nation's largest single-day corporate volunteer effort and
part of the Company's year-round commitment to community
service. Today Massachusetts volunteers will roll their
sleeves up in communities such as Boston, Danvers, Lawrence, Lowell, Plymouth and Springfield.
This year the Company expects more than 90,000 Comcast and
NBCUniversal volunteers to participate in over 750 projects across
the country and around the globe. To date, more than 600,000
volunteers have contributed over 3.7 million volunteer hours since
Comcast Cares Day started in 2001.
"I'm proud that the City of
Boston is again taking part in Comcast Cares Day," said
Mayor Martin J. Walsh. "The
dedicated volunteers who will donate their time and energy are able
to see firsthand what can happen by taking an active role in the
beautification of their own communities. The time, energy and
tenacity of the volunteers involved is appreciated and integral to
making all Boston communities
neighborhoods of opportunity."
"We're proud to partner with the Boston Center for Youth &
Families and other nonprofit organizations to improve our community
during our 14th Comcast Cares Day," said Steve Hackley, Senior Vice President of
Comcast's Greater Boston Region. "The hard work of the 3,500
Massachusetts volunteers who will
be donating their time to help make such a big difference in the
lives of others is inspiring, and I am thankful to all of our
participants who are helping to make today a success."
In addition, one of Comcast's largest partner organizations City
Year Boston added, "The service our corps members provide in
schools is focused on increasing opportunities and outcomes for
students," said Sandra Lopez Burke,
Vice President and Executive Director of City Year Boston. "But we
know that learning also takes place outside of the classroom and
that the lives of students are importantly shaped by their
experiences outside of school. That's why Comcast Cares Day is so
important, because if focuses on the communities where students
learn and live and shows them that we are all invested in their
success."
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 $16 million in
grants to local non-profit organizations who have partnered with us
on Comcast Cares Day.
The Comcast Cares Day 2015 Massachusetts community partners and
projects include the following:
- Beverly – Sterling YMCA – 254 Essex Street
Site
activities: Landscaping, painting and mulching an outdoor adventure
course
- Billerica – Billerica
Senior Center – 25 Concord Road
Site activities:
Painting, landscaping and organizing
- Boston – Perkins
Community Center – 155 Talbot Avenue
Site activities:
Completing 36 projects throughout Blue Hill Avenue including
painting throughout the Joseph Lee K-8 School, the BCYF Perkins
Community Center, the Blue Hill Ave Boys & Girls Club and
cleaning up around Harambee Park
- Boston – AstraZeneca
Hope Lodge – 125 South Huntington Avenue
Site activities:
Serving breakfast for patients and their caregivers
- Bridgewater – The
Bridge Center – 470 Pine Street
Site activities: Cleaning
and setting up an obstacle course
- Bridgewater –
Special Olympics Aquatics – 34 Park Avenue (Bridgewater State
University Kelly Gym)
Site activities: Organizing and
timing events as well as preparing athletes
- Danvers – Danvers Rail
Trail – 90 Maple Street
Site activities:
Landscaping and removing winter debris
- Haverhill – Veterans
Northeast Outreach Center – 10 Reed Street
Site
activities: Landscaping and planting
- Lawrence – Pemberton
State Park – 430 North Canal Street
Site activities:
Landscaping and spring clean-up
- Leominster – Carter
Park – 107 Main Street
Site activities: Landscaping and
cleaning
- Lowell –
Pawtucketville Elementary School – 425 West Meadow Road
Site activities: Landscaping and planting
- Medford – Special Olympics
Tennis Tournament – 91 Professors Row (Tufts
University)
Site activities: Keeping score and
refereeing the games
- Methuen – Nevins
Farm MSPCA – 400 Broadway
Site activities: Completing
yard work, painting and building fences
- Middleton –
Creighton Pond Day Camp – 210
Essex Street
Site activities: Cleaning and sprucing
up
- Milford – Special Olympics, Milford High School – 31 W Fountain
Street
Site activities: Organizing and timing events as
well as preparing athletes
- Newton – Third Annual Canine Walk – 770 Centre Street
(Carroll Center for the Blind)Site activities: Setting up
and breaking down event tables, tents and chairs as well as
directing blind walkers and organizing a scavenger hunt
- Norton – Winslow Farms – 37 Eddy
Street
Site activities: Landscaping
- Plymouth – Nathan
Hale Veterans Outreach Center – 232 Beaver Dam Road
Site
activities: Building a Huglekultur (raised garden) for veterans to
plant their own vegetables
- Reading – Burbank YMCA – 36 Arthur B Lord
Drive
Site activities: Cleaning and sprucing up
- Somerville –
Groundwork Somerville – 32
Shore Drive (Blessing of the Bay Boathouse)
Site
activities: Cleaning and landscaping
- Springfield –
Headstart, Inc. – 30 Madison Avenue
Site activities:
Cleaning, landscaping and painting
- Vineyard Haven –
Alex's Place Elder Tech Fair – 111R Edgartown/Vineyard Haven Road
Site
activities: Serving as technology coaches for elders
- Watertown – The
Perkins School for the Blind – 175
North Beacon Street
Site activities: Working on assembly
lines to put together braille typewriter machines
- West Dennis – Ezra H
Baker Innovation School – 810 Route 28
Site activities:
Painting throughout the school and building new coat racks
- Westfield – Boys
& Girls Club – 28 West Silver Street
Site
activities: Cleaning and landscaping
Comcast has been committed to serving local communities since
the company's founding more than 50 years ago. For more information
on Comcast's volunteer and community investment initiatives, visit
www.comcast.com/community.
About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) is a global media and
technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and
NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is the nation's largest video,
high-speed Internet and phone provider 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 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 $158
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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