Comcast Cares Day Success in Washington State: 2,000-plus volunteers offer more than 13,000 hours of help to 12 Organizations Throughout Western Washington and Spokane

Comcasters and friends gather at Garden Raised Bounty in Olympia, Washington, before performing community service as part of Comcast Cares Day

On Saturday, April 30, more than 2,000 Comcast employees and their families and friends offered about 13,000 hours of volunteer service to improve more than a dozen locations throughout Western Washington and in Spokane as part of Comcast’s “Comcast Cares Day.”

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Here is a list of projects, by community:

Aberdeen: Rebuilding Together’s Rebuilding Day 2011
Bremerton: Holly Ridge Center
Custer (near Bellingham): Custer Elementary School
Federal Way: Boy Scouts of America Pacific Harbor Council’s Camp Kilworth

Kirkland: Peter Kirk Elementary School
Olympia: GRuB (Garden Raised Bounty)
Parkland: L’Arche Farms
Seattle: El Centro de La Raza (The Center for People of All Races)

Snohomish: The Farm Youth Outreach
Spokane: Boys and Girls Clubs of Spokane County
Sultan: Volunteers of America’s Sky Valley Resource Center
Tacoma and Lakewood: Network Services

A handcrafted sign leading people to the Comcast Cares Day site in Olympia, Washington

At the same time across the country, more than 62,000 Comcast volunteers participated in this annual day of service, which is one of the largest single days of corporate volunteer effort in the country.

For more information about the various projects in Comcast Cares Day in Washington in 2010 please click here.