Comcast cared--30,000 ways: MSO's national volunteer effort helps many and impresses local politicos.(Comcast Corp.'s fourth annual national "Comcast Cares Day")
Multichannel News, October, 2004 by Haugsted, Linda
National volunteers: 30,000. Total man-hours: 180,000. Positive impressions on local community leaders: incalculable. Volunteers who took part in Comcast Corp.'s fourth annual national "Comcast Cares Day" on Saturday, Oct. 2, built houses, raked leaves, painted schools and distributed food for the hungry in the largest numbers ever posted by the company.
"We're not used to having that many at once," Norm Wilber of the Dallas-area Habitat for Humanity chapter said of the Comcast Cares crew. On an average day, Wilber shepherds 20 volunteers per house, with 10 to 15 houses going up at any one time in the region. The local influx of Comcast volunteers was so large that he had to find extra jobs for them, he said. That was a nice problem to...
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