Doylestown, PA – Feb. 1, 2010 – The Comcast Foundation has awarded a $30,000 grant to Vita Education Services to support its Resources for Results initiative. Resources for Results provides educational materials for students enrolled in Vita’s free literacy programs. The grant will support Vita’s programs in basic literacy, GED preparation, English as a Second Language and Family Literacy by providing materials such as student texts, workbooks, and dictionaries.
“We are grateful to Comcast for its generous contribution,” said Linda Wolfson, Executive Director of Vita. “Our students’ learning will be greatly enhanced through the grant from The Comcast Foundation. It will enable us to purchase quality materials to support contextualized instruction, which places emphasis on skill improvement within the context of employment, parent education and citizenship.”
Vita Education Services provides quality educational programs that help individuals gain skills that enhance their ability to deal with real-life situations, meet personal goals and become more self-determining and self-sufficient. Vita Education Services is the lead literacy agency in Bucks County and the largest provider of educational services in the Bucks County Correctional Facilities. Through literacy and decision making programs, Vita brings learning to life for Bucks County adults, families and at-risk youth by helping them to develop skills that create opportunities for themselves, their families, and, in turn, the community.
The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast Corporation in June 1999 to provide charitable support to qualified non-profit organizations. The Foundation primarily invests in programs intended to have a positive, sustainable impact on their communities. The Foundation’s focus areas are volunteerism, literacy, and youth leadership development. Since its inception, the Comcast Foundation has donated more than $64 million to organizations in the communities nationwide that Comcast serves. More information about the Foundation and its programs is available at www.comcast.com/InTheCommunity.
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 23.8 million cable customers, 15.7 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.4 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
