On Saturday, April 30, 2016 more than 150 local Comcast employees and volunteers assist nonprofit organizations around Detroit as part of Comcast’s “Comcast Cares Day.”

   

 
 

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Pictured here is Neil Smit, CEO, Comcast Cable, and Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast Corp. and Dr. Chad Audi, President of Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell Us Detroit)

 
150 volunteers makeover Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries’ Teen and Women’s Shelters during Comcast Cares Day

By Wendell Bryant/Tell Us Detroit

DETROIT, MI (Tell Us Det) - DIY shows are all the rage, and this past Saturday (April 30, 2016), Comcast Cable assembled 150 volunteers, made up of employees, students, neighborhood organizations and community leaders, to transform two separate shelters operated by Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries that serve women and teens in the city's eastside.

Volunteers installed a new computer lab, set up a new common area living room, updated and refreshed the restrooms. installed new playground equipment, painting, tree trimming and general outdoor clean-up and boxing food and distributing to families in need.

Neil Smit, CEO, Comcast Cable, and Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast Corp. said, "Comcast Cares Day is an extension of what founder Ralph Roberts started 50 years ago. Smit said Roberts instilled a mindset of being a “good corporate citizen” into the company from the start."

Nationwide, 90,000 volunteers participated in Comcast Cares Day, a day Smit called “the best day of the year.”

Comcast Cares Day began in 2001 with 6,100 volunteers improving 110 project sites. Last year, more than 100,000 volunteers contributed 600,000-plus hours of service at more than 900 sites in the United States and in 21 other countries worldwide. The Comcast Foundation matched these efforts with $2 million in grants to more than 700 nonprofit organizations.

Dr. Chad Audi, president of Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries said, "We are grateful to ‪Comcast‬ Cable, Neil Smit and his amazing team for choosing us as their partner for the 2016 Comcast Cares Day, which was marked at one of our facilities in ‎Detroit‬. And they surprised us with a donation‬ of $25,000 to support our work. Woohoo!

To date, more than 700,000 volunteers have contributed more than 4 million hours of service at 6,800 project sites in local communities and the Comcast Foundation has provided more than $18 million in grants to our nonprofit community partners to bolster the efforts of Comcast Cares Day volunteers.


 

 

 

 
   
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