Comcast Cares Day is Comcast and NBCUniversal’s signature celebration of service and the nation’s largest single-day corporate volunteer effort. Every spring, tens of thousands of our employees, families, friends and local partners join us to make a difference in the communities we serve. In 2012, a record 75,000 volunteers donated 450,000 hours at more than 600 sites across the country, cleaning up parks, painting schools and installing computer labs at community centers. Since the first Comcast Cares Day in 2001, we’ve contributed 2.6 million hours and $12 million. In the words of company founder Ralph Roberts, "It’s a wonderful thing to have people work together for the benefit of others."

When Ralph Roberts founded Comcast in 1963, the first organization to which he directed company support was United Way. Now, 50 years later, we’re one of United Way’s top 50 corporate partners across the country. Comcast was one of the first companies to conduct a company-wide United Way giving campaign simultaneously across the country. Since 2003, our employees have contributed more than $36 million in pledges, and the Comcast Foundation has provided an additional $12 million in matching grants. During the 2012 Fall campaign, Comcast employees broke company records, with about 50 percent of employees pledging more than $5.6 million in support. The partnership was recognized in 2013, when United Way Worldwide awarded Comcast with two Summit Awards for volunteer and philanthropic engagement – among United Way’s highest honors.

The program is designed to provide gifts and essentials for millions of impoverished children and teenagers nationwide. Recipients include homeless shelters, children’s group homes, schools, foster family services, domestic abuse shelters, Native American missions, military bases, hospitals, preschools, after-school programs and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.