More than 3,200 Volunteers Give Time to a Dozen Locations throughout Washington State during Comcast Cares Day 2016

Please keep an eye on this site – you may need to refresh your browser the next time you visit – for the latest reports on the big day.

Click this link to see some of the colorful posts on social media about #ComcastCaresDay 2016 in Washington State. 

On Saturday, April 30, 2016, more than 3,200 Comcast NBCUniversal employees and their families, friends and community partners volunteered to improve several neighborhoods and nonprofits around Puget Sound and Spokane as part of the 15^th annual Comcast Cares Day.

We described the projects in an earlier post. In this post we collect photographs and news stories to help employees and others keep track of all that was accomplished. This year, a record amount of images were shared through the hashtag #ComcastCaresDay. Click here to see some of the posts from the day.

Comcast Cares Day, which takes place each April during National Volunteer Month, is Comcast NBCUniversal’s companywide celebration of their year-round commitment to service and the nation’s largest single-day corporate volunteer effort in the country.

Here is a listing of sites by location:

Aberdeen: Downtown Aberdeen Revitalization

Read what the Daily World reported about the event before it took place.

Auburn: Auburn Valley YMCA

Bellingham: Lydia Place

Bremerton: Bremerton Boys & Girls Clubs .

Here’s how the Kitsap Sun noted the day.

Kirkland: Kirkland Watershed Park Restoration

Here’s an account in the Kirkland Reporter newspaper.

Marysville: Marysville Boys & Girls Club

We’re expecting photographs soon.

• Here’s how the Everett Herald saw the big day
  Here’s what the Marysville Globe had to say.

Olympia: Olympia Kiwanis Food Bank Garden and Community Firewood Bank and Thurston County Food Bank. 

Click here to see a Thurston Talk report on all the volunteering, with even more pictures.

Orting: Washington Soldier’s Home

Here’s a time-lapse video of some of the work done at the Soldiers Home:

Oso: Oso Whitehorse Trail

Read what the North County Outlook had to say about all the volunteering.

A story in the Camano Stanwood News also profiles two organizers, Bill and Dena Searcy, two longtime community volunteers.

Puyallup: Puyallup Playcare Center

We’re expecting photographs soon!

Here’s what South Sound Talk saw at the event, with photographs.

Seattle: Rainier Beach Bridge to Beach Spring Clean

Click here for a report by the South Seattle Emerald

Read how the International Examiner described the scope of the volunteering.

And here’s a video by our own Ed Hauge of the Seattle project

Spokane: West Central Neighborhood Cleanup

Please see the top of this page for a news story about the Spokane cleanup. We expecting photographs soon.