Comcast Volunteers "Make Change Happen," Beautifying Twenty-Five Sites Across Massachusetts Today On 14th Comcast Cares Day

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 14^th 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 14^th 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
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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 $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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