Every year I have the honor of going through a lot of records to map the ways that Comcast donates millions in airtime and cash to nonprofits and others in Washington State. The 2012 maps are out! That’s a lot of addresses to paste into spreadsheets, so please let me sip my coffee as I […]
El Centro de la Raza in Seattle Presents Comcast with Corporate Partner of the Year Award
Talk about the holiday spirit! A Seattle nonprofit gives back to its corporate partner. After years of support from Comcast in Washington, El Centro de la Raza, a respected Latino-based civil and human rights organization, recognized the company as its Corporate Partner of the Year. Estela Ortega, El Centro’s executive director, awarded Comcast during an […]
Looking forward to Comcast Cares Day 2012 in Washington State
Every year, Comcast organizes one of the largest single corporate days of service in the country, known as Comcast Cares Day. Last year, more than 2,200 Comcast employees and their families and friends volunteered to improve more than a dozen locations throughout Western Washington and in Spokane. One of the locations was El Centro de […]
Maps Show Where Comcast Donated to Organizations in 2011 in Western Washington and Spokane County
One of the things we do in our office is help manage community giving by Comcast in Western Washington and Spokane. What I like to do as an exercise is plot out on a map where Comcast donates. We use a wonderful tool offered by the great folks at Zeemaps. Today I gathered up info from several databases […]
Woodside Elementary Students Get the Red Carpet Treatment: Comcast’s Big Brothers Big Sisters ‘Beyond School Walls’ Program Arrives in Washington State
Update on 12/22: here’s a very nice story from the Everett Herald about this event. I love Big Brothers Big Sisters. Mentoring a young person delivers life-changing benefits for both the “Bigs” and the “Littles,” as Big Brothers Big Sisters likes to call their participants. The problem is that many people ask, “Who has the […]