BOSTON, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the eighth annual Comcast Cares Day, one of the largest single-day corporate volunteer efforts in the country, local Comcast employees and their family members and friends today volunteered at dozens of community sites across New England, providing spring cleaning, painting, landscaping and other services to local cities and towns and nonprofit organizations.
In all, more than 4,300 Comcast Cares Day volunteers spent the day working at more than 50 sites in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, continuing Comcast's tradition of using not only its products and services, but also its local workforce to power the dreams of local communities.
"Comcast Cares Day is an event I look forward to every year," said Kevin Casey, President of Comcast's NorthCentral Division. "It is truly a moving experience to work with thousands of our employees as they give up their free time on a Saturday to help neighbors and their communities. This year more than ever, our help is needed, and we are honored to do what we can to help each other."
Nationwide, more than 50,000 Comcast volunteers will participate in Comcast Cares Day, the company's annual day of service and one of the largest single-day corporate volunteer efforts in the country. Comcast Cares Day is one way that Comcast demonstrates its year-round commitment to making a difference in the communities it serves. The company also provides complimentary video and high-speed Internet services to schools and libraries in the communities it serves and is a stalwart supporter of local nonprofits.
Since the first Comcast Cares Day took place in 2001, more than 170,000 Comcast volunteers have contributed over one million hours of service at more than 1,750 project sites in local communities throughout the country. Today, volunteers are expected to donate another 300,000 hours of service, bringing the total service hours during all Comcast Cares Days to more than 1.3 million.
The Comcast Foundation has contributed grants totaling more than $6.6 million to local community partner organizations since the inception of the company's annual day of service. This year, it will once again donate significant grants to local community partner organizations across the country on behalf of each employee and family member who volunteers on Comcast Cares Day. The grants will help Comcast's community partners continue their mission of serving the community throughout the year and help power the dreams of neighborhoods nationwide.
For more information on Comcast's volunteer and community investment initiatives, visit http://www.comcast.com/inthecommunity.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.2 million cable customers, 14.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten sports networks operated by Comcast Sports Group and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
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's focus areas are volunteerism, literacy, and youth leadership development. Since its inception, the Comcast Foundation has donated more than $64 million to organizations in the communities nationwide that Comcast serves. More information about the Foundation and its programs is available at http://www.comcast.com/inthecommunity.
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