We’re still buzzing with the excitement of last Saturday. It’s not just the work, but it’s spirit of the folks who came and the shared effort!
Saturday, April 30 dawned to several inches of wet snow on the Center’s grounds, and temperatures in the mid-30s. The rain mixed with snow continued all morning and afternoon, but it was Comcast Cares Day 2016 and dozens of Comcast employee-volunteers and their families showed up anyway to work on our landscaping and other tasks. They came because they said they would, and because this event is one of the largest corporate-sponsored volunteer programs in the US.
It’s obviously the people – the employees and their families – who truly make it a huge success.
“It’s beautiful,” Kimberly McCutcheon said as things packed up before noon. “It would have taken us years to get all of this done!”
Last year, more than 900 nonprofits benefited from the coordinated efforts of more than 100,000 Comcast employees who volunteered on a Saturday. In our neck of the woods alone this year, The Action Center and the Boys and Girls Clubs were on the agenda for Comcast Cares Day in the south Metro area, along with the Colorado Center for the Blind.
By 7:30 a.m., the Center’s meeting room was full of people drinking coffee and juice, eating Danishes and collecting this year’s Comcast Cares T-shirts. Outside, the two Comcast organizers, Deb and Tori, had set up a canopy and table as command post, and dozens more volunteers continued to arrive, greeting each other with friendly ribbing and laughter. When Abner showed up in shorts he attracted much of the good-natured attention.
“It’s a nice spring day,” was his smiling rejoinder.