Last week, David L. Cohen, Comcast Corporation’s Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer; Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro; Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney; and Ric Harris, President and General Manager of NBC10 and Telemundo62 announced a new Internet Essentials partnership to educate seniors, parents, and children across the Commonwealth about how to stay safe […]
Comcast NBCUniversal’s Partnership with Dreamers // Doers Supports Female Thought Leaders
By: Danielle Cohn, Comcast Executive Director, Entrepreneurial Engagement It’s no secret that I believe entrepreneurs need a culture of collaboration and a supportive community for innovation to thrive. That’s part of the reason Comcast NBCUniversal’s Entrepreneurial Engagement team exists, and why the company is expanding its support of startups through the launch of Comcast NBCUniversal […]
Expanding Access to Technology for People with Disabilities
By Adam Hymans, Director of Strategic Communications, SPIN. For the past 46 years, SPIN (Special People in Northeast) has supported thousands of people with autism and intellectual disability to live, learn and work as valued members of the community. Our new Comcast Digital Literacy Lab at SPIN helps us continue our mission by putting technology […]
Wilmington City Council Partners with Comcast to Conquer the Digital Divide
Recently Comcast and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced a partnership to close the digital divide for up to two million HUD-assisted households through Internet Essentials, Comcast’s high-speed internet adoption program for low-income families. Since that announcement, community leaders have worked to encourage HUD and other affordable housing-assisted city residents to apply […]
Partnering with the United Way of Greater Union County to address Digital Literacy
By James Horne Jr., President and CEO, United Way of Greater Union County As the world’s largest privately funded nonprofit organization, the United Way has been an important change-agent in the lives of people across the globe. Locally, United Way of Greater Union County (UWGUC) has thrived for close to 100 years, in part by forming […]