BERLIN, Conn., April 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On
Saturday, April 25, more than 650
local Comcast NBCUniversal employees and their families, friends
and community partners will "make change happen" as they volunteer
to improve nine sites across Connecticut as part of the 14th
annual Comcast Cares Day.
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. Today
around 650 Connecticut volunteers will roll their sleeves up at
sites in Ansonia, Branford, Danbury, Farmington, Middletown, New
Haven, Norwich, Stamford
and West Hartford.
For example, at Camp Courant in Farmington, over 100 volunteers comprised of
participants from the camp, Urban
League of Greater Hartford,
United Way of Central and Northeastern CT, Leadership Greater
Hartford, Easter Seals Capital Region and Eastern CT and Lake
Street Parent Teacher Organization will join Comcast employees and
their family and friends to landscape, spring clean and spruce up
the camp grounds.
"Hartford's Camp Courant is
thrilled to partner with Comcast for its annual Comcast Cares Day,"
said McKinley Albert, Interim
Executive Director & CEO. "It is a wonderful opportunity
for the community to learn more about the Camp, while participating
in hands-on engagement opportunities that go a long way in making a
difference for Hartford's
kids."
This year, the Company expects more than 90,000 Comcast and
NBCUniversal volunteers to participate in more than 750 projects
across the country and around the globe. To date, volunteers
have contributed more than 3.7 million service hours to improve
nearly 6,000 projects in the U.S. and around the world since
Comcast Cares Day started in 2001.
"Comcast Cares Day is a powerful demonstration of what is
possible when people and businesses come together to make a
difference in our local community," said Jack Healy, President and CEO of the United Way
of Greater New Haven. "We are
extremely fortunate to have Comcast volunteers roll up their
sleeves to transform the face of one of our local schools. That
kind of effort has a tremendous impact in the lives of the children
and families we serve."
The United Way of Greater New
Haven will be pitching in alongside organizations such as
Easter Seals Goodwill Industries, Urban
League of Southern
Connecticut, and students from Southern
Connecticut State University to beautify the grounds at
New Haven's Wexler Grant
Elementary School.
"We're so proud to partner with these nine deserving
organizations to improve our community during our 14th
Comcast Cares Day," added Mary
McLaughlin, Comcast Senior Vice President of the Western New
England Region, which includes Connecticut. "The hard work of the 650
Connecticut 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."
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 nine Comcast Cares Day sites in Connecticut include:
- Ansonia - Lower Naugatuck
Valley Boys and Girls Club–volunteers will landscape, spring
clean and paint
- Branford - Community Dining Room–volunteers will
landscape and spring clean
- Danbury - Park Avenue
Elementary School–volunteers will create a reading garden,
landscape and spring clean
- Farmington - Camp
Courant–volunteers will landscape, spring clean and paint
- Middletown - American
Legion CT Post 75–volunteers will landscape and spring
clean
- New Haven - Wexler Grant
Elementary School–volunteers will landscape, spring clean and
paint
- Norwich - Easter Seals
Capital Region and Eastern
Connecticut–volunteers will landscape, spring clean and
paint
- Stamford - Stamford Boys and
Girls Club–volunteers will landscape and spring clean
- West Hartford - Hartford
Boys and Girls Club–volunteers will be accepting used
electronics to recycle
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 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—promoting community 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.
About Comcast in Connecticut:
Comcast is committed to
providing an unparalleled entertainment experience to residents and
businesses in the 83 communities the company serves in
Connecticut. Comcast's Western New England Region, which
includes five states, is headquartered in Berlin, Connecticut, and customers are served
by a team of over 1,200 Connecticut employees. Comcast also
boasts a call center in Enfield,
Connecticut, service centers throughout the state, and six
state-of-the-art Xfinity Stores where customers can experience
Comcast's Xfinity products and services firsthand. Comcast's
popular Xfinity brand is also featured on the Xfinity Theatre, one
of Hartford's premier music
venues. The company helps to strengthen the communities where
its customers and employees live and work by supporting local
nonprofit organizations. In 2014, Comcast provided more than
$1.3 million to community partners in
the state, in the form of Comcast Foundation grants,
sponsorships, volunteer hours, courtesy services and in-kind
donations.
About Camp Courant
As the oldest and largest FREE
summer day camp in the nation, Hartford's Camp Courant provides a safe,
exciting and educational environment in which over 1,000
Hartford's children, ages five (5)
through 12, can build meaningful and positive relations with fellow
campers and staff, learn, and most importantly, have fun during the
summer months. Camp's mission is grounded in the central
premise that fun yet educational experiences will have a positive
and lifelong impact on our young campers, many of whom lack
structured programming during the summer months. As a youth
development organization, we combine traditional camp activities
with enrichment programming that exposes our campers to ideas and
opportunities which spark their imaginations and inspires them to
be their best in a safe, nurturing, fresh-air setting.
Hartford's Camp Courant is also
unique in the sense that of the 44 summer camps in Connecticut, it is the only summer camp
available to Hartford's youth
which provides round-trip transportation, preventive and acute
health and social work services, two nutritious meals a day, and
recreational, educational and developmental activities, all at no
cost to the camper or his or her family.
About United Way of Greater New
Haven
United Way of Greater
New Haven advances the common good by changing the odds for
families throughout Greater New
Haven. Our focus is on education, income and health – the
building blocks for a good quality of life. United Way recruits
people and organizations that bring the passion, expertise and
resources needed to get things done. Learn more at uwgnh.org.
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