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Day Volunteers Spruce up Catholic Charities Sites
 Comcast employee Shirley Cole helps her son paint at Visitation Place, Catholic Charities' housing complex for single parents
Comcast employee Brad Randall helping his daughter paint
Painting at St. Joe's: Comcast employee Sue Petrangelo, Claire and Ann Renner
Genet Barnes, a Comcast employee, paints at St. Joseph's Home for Children
Comcast employee Sue Petrangelo at St. Joe's
Comcast Foundation representatives present a check for digital literacy to Catholic Charities CEO Paul Martodam. The gift will help enhance St. Joe's computer lab and build a new computer lab at Hope Street for Runaway and Homeless Youth |
A fleet of volunteers from Comcast, armed with paint brushes and buckets, gave two Catholic Charities program sites an extreme makeover April 24.
Comcast volunteers painted the hallways at St. Joseph's Home for Children and the common areas at Visitation Place. The projects were part of the ninth annual Comcast Cares Day, one of the largest single days of corporate volunteering in the country.
 In addition to the fresh coats of paint, the Comcast Foundation presented a check for $10,000 to Catholic Charities CEO Paul Martodam. The money will provide a new computer lab for teens at Hope Street for Runaway and Homeless Youth and an enhanced lab at St. Joe's. Martodam thanked the volunteers for their efforts.
"Your work today is not just a work of love and labor, it's a work of transformation," he said, "and for that we are very, very grateful."
More than 1,200 Comcast employees across the Twin Cities (and more than 50,000 nationwide) volunteered Saturday morning, helping several nonprofits upgrade their facilities. Catholic Charities participated in Comcast Cares Day for the second year.
"We are well aware of how the economy has pinched most nonprofits," said Mary Beth Schubert, Comcast's Minnesota area director of corporate affairs. "Comcast Cares Day is an important way for hundreds of our employees and volunteers to directly impact their communities through service."
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