14 California Schools Impacted by Budget Cuts to Receive Makeovers as Part of 'Comcast Cares Day'
Comcast California to Mobilize 3,000 Employees, Family Members, Students and Parents in One of Nation's Largest Single-Day Corporate Volunteer Efforts
LIVERMORE, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, April 24, more than 3,000 local Comcast employees and their families and friends will volunteer to improve 14 schools throughout California that have been affected by budget cuts as part of Comcast's ninth annual "Comcast Cares Day." At the same time across the country, more than 55,000 Comcast volunteers will participate in this annual day of service, which is one of the largest single days of corporate volunteer efforts in the country. Comcast Cares Day is one way that Comcast helps to power dreams and demonstrate a year-round commitment to making a difference in the communities it serves.
Throughout California, local elected officials will be on hand at the schools as Comcast employees will spend the day planting shrubs, repainting walls, building picnic tables and bookshelves, repairing fences, weeding flower beds, power-washing playgrounds, replacing bark and performing landscaping projects at the schools listed below. Specific projects will include creating learning gardens in Santa Rosa and San Jose, converting a work room into a teacher's lounge inAlameda, building a retaining wall in Livermore, restoring an outdoor Senior quad in San Francisco, converting a eucalyptus grove into an outdoor eating area in Salinas, sanding and painting picnic tables in Marysville and paintingUnited States and world maps on the playground in Modesto.
"Our local students and parents continue to feel the devastating effects of school budget cuts, and we hope that our Comcast Cares Day efforts at 14 California schools can have a positive impact on that situation," said Curt Henninger, Regional Senior Vice President for Comcast California. "Comcast Cares Day is part of our ongoing commitment to education and to improving the quality of life in the neighborhoods where we live and work."
The Comcast Foundation will also provide grants to local community partner organizations across the country on behalf of