Comcast Recognizes Innovation and Community Service With 2005 Comcast Leadership Awards to City Year Alumni

Comcast Recognizes Innovation and Community Service With 2005 Comcast Leadership Awards to City Year Alumni

Five Honored at City Year's Annual National Convention

PHILADELPHIA, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- City Year, a leading citizen service organization that unites young people ages 17 to 24 from diverse backgrounds for a year of rigorous full-time service, announces the recipients of the 2005 Comcast Leadership Awards. Comcast, the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services, is a premiere corporate sponsor of City Year, which has 15 sites across the United States and one in South Africa. The partnership is based on a shared commitment to the leadership development of young people, and to community-building initiatives at the local level.

The 2005 Comcast Leadership Awards - presented at this year's City Year annual convention in Little Rock - went to five outstanding alumni who:

-- continue their dedication to community service;
-- maintain a commitment to excellence;
-- create sustainable solutions for social change; and,
-- embody City Year's emphasis on teamwork, responsibility, diversity,
respect for others, leadership, innovation and personal growth.

More than 1,000 City Year corps members engaged in service to community and country united for the weeklong annual convention. The convention provides an opportunity for young leaders - completing a year during which each has served 1,700 hours in schools and neighborhoods - to appreciate ways in which past graduates continue to illustrate the power of service, and to celebrate Comcast's extensive support for City Year.

"The Comcast Leadership Awards recognize outstanding alumni who are combining their vision and talents to make the world a better place, and the awards are just one part of Comcast's significant commitment to leadership development at City Year," said City Year CEO and co-founder Alan Khazei. "Comcast and City Year believe that we must invest in young people not only by supporting their idealism, but also by giving them the skills they need to help make their dreams reality."

Added David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President of Comcast Corporation and a member of City Year's National Board, who presented the awards, "The Comcast Leadership Award winners embody the values of both City Year and Comcast. We share a strong commitment to developing and recognizing leadership in our communities' young people. The five award recipients are to be commended for their dedication to public service and the positive difference they are making in communities all across the country."

The 2005 recipients are:

Christopher Brown (City Year Boston, 2000) for his active service to the City Year alumni network in mentoring corps members and launching the City Year/NFTE (National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship) Incubator - a 10-week/40-hour program designed to introduce corps members to the business tools needed to create new civic ventures.

Wyneshia Foxworth (City Year Philadelphia, 1998) for her eight years of dedicated service and leadership in developing the largest corps in the City Year network and successfully managing the strategic partnership with the School District of Philadelphia to serve students in 12 high schools.

Steven Ginsburg (City Year Boston, 1995) for his role in co-founding HartBeat Ensemble - Hartford, Connecticut's only metropolitan-based theatre company committed to the creation of new performances through social change. HartBeat seeks to empower communities through a unique process that combines oral history, youth outreach and education, and community participation.

Eliza Goodwin (City Year Rhode Island, 1995) for her vision and leadership as the Executive Director of the Southside Family School, an alternative K-8 public school in South Minneapolis. Through her tireless work she brings together parents, teachers, volunteers, donors, and businesses to achieve the school's vision of creating a new generation of engaged citizen leaders.

Christopher Murphy (City Year Boston, 1988) for his dedicated commitment to advancing the national service movement and entrepreneurial leadership as the founding Executive Director of City Year Washington, D.C. In the last five years, he has raised over $5 million, recruited dozens of talented staff, and led over 250 alumni in service with the Washington, D.C. community.

In addition to receiving a plaque recognizing their achievement, each Comcast Leadership Award recipient received a webcam, a $500 gift certificate, and a $1,000 leadership grant to be used for continuing education, the purchase of a computer, or furthering their philanthropic efforts.

These 2005 awards are just one element of the partnership between City Year and Comcast. Comcast has been a National Leadership Sponsor, City Year's premier corporate partnership program, since 2002 and renewed its commitment in 2005 for three more years. Comcast's support emphasizes leadership development and training of City Year's corps and staff, provides $2.2 million in funding that will benefit all 15 City Year sites in the United States, and helps City Year and Comcast employees join forces for community improvement efforts. The extensive partnership reflects Comcast and City Year's mutual commitment to service and to the belief that young people can and will become leaders if given the opportunity.

About Comcast

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)(NASDAQ:CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.5 million cable customers, 7.4 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content.

The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia. Comcast Class A common stock and Class A Special common stock trade on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbols CMCSA and CMCSK, respectively.

The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast Corporation in June 1999 and is the company's chief source of charitable support to qualified non-profit organizations. The Foundation primarily invests in programs that work to create a positive, sustainable impact within our communities in the areas of volunteerism; literacy, reading and learning; and youth leadership development. Since its inception, The Comcast Foundation has donated more than $18 million to organizations in the communities where Comcast serves. More information about The Foundation and its programs is available at http://www.comcast.com/ under "In the Community."

About City Year

City Year unites a diverse corps of young adults, ages 17 to 24, for a demanding year of full-time community service, leadership development and civic engagement. Founded in Boston in 1988, City Year has established programs in Boston; Chicago; Cleveland; Columbia, SC; Columbus; Detroit; Little Rock; New Hampshire; New York; Philadelphia; Rhode Island; San Antonio; San Jose/Silicon Valley; Seattle/King County, South Africa and Washington, D.C. Lead investors in City Year include The Atlantic Philanthropies, Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Comcast, CSX, and The Timberland Company. City Year is a proud member of AmeriCorps. Visit http://www.cityyear.org/ for more information.

Source: Comcast; City Year

CONTACT: Alison Franklin of City Year, +1-617-927-2612; or Nancy Page
+1-215-981-7778, or Jenni Moyer, +1-215-851-3311, both of Comcast

Web site: http://www.comcast.com/
http://www.cityyear.org/

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