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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) |
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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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