Comcast has awarded $1 million in grants to 100 Black, Indigenous and People of Color- (BIPOC) owned small businesses in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park. Awards also went to 84 additional businesses across Michigan. Detroit was one of five cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia, selected to award $10,000 grants to 100 local businesses […]
The Comcast Rise Investment Fund has $10,000 grants available to help Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)-owned, small businesses in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park hit hard by COVID-19. Beginning Monday, March 1 and running through Sunday, March 14, eligible businesses can apply for a $10,000 grant at www.comcastrise.com. A total of 100 grants totaling $1 million will […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has put the education of many low-income students in Detroit at risk of being left behind because they often have no access to the internet. To help close that gap Comcast will launch its first 12 WiFi-connected “Lift Zones” in Detroit by year end. Lift Zones are designed to help those students […]
For many low-income veterans and families the digital divide has been as wide as trying to traverse the Grand Canyon. For some that has changed. On August 15 Comcast surprised 150 low-income veterans with free laptops and announced a $25,000 grant to Southwest Solutions for a mobile computer lab and WiFi access points at its Piquette […]
A half-dozen of Corktown’s most well-known establishments along Michigan Avenue have joined together to create the Detroit Police Department’s second Project Green Light Commercial Corridor. The partners, located in Detroit’s oldest neighborhood, include the new Detroit Police Athletic League headquarters, McShane’s Irish Pub, Detroit Institute of Bagels, Ottava Via, Brooklyn Street Local and PJ’s Lager […]
On Saturday, April 21 city neighborhoods will get some love and a fresh coat of paint. About 125 employees from Comcast NBCUniversal will meet up at 7:30 a.m. for “Comcast Cares Day” at S.A.Y. Detroit Play Center, 19320 Van Dyke Ave. For 17 years “Comcast Cares Day” has seen corporate volunteers go out and make […]
Comcast is coming to Highland Park. The internet provider has acquired MIcom, the city’s cable system, and expects to begin offering Xfinity residential and Comcast Business services in the coming weeks. Highland Park residents and businesses will have access to Comcast’s full suite of Xfinity products and services, including the X1 video platform, which provides […]
As we begin this story let’s take a step back in time and visit a high school in the last century. The teacher has just assigned the class a paper on Abraham Lincoln. She then divides the class into two sections. She tells the group on one side of the room they can go to […]
It was a great morning for Carol Eggert. She was attending, and was one of the hosts, at a support ceremony to honor Comcast’s veterans, National Guard and Reserve employees. Comcast wants to make the community aware of the sacrifices these individuals make to serve and highlight the skills and talents they learn in the […]
A new product from Comcast is giving small- and mid-size businesses the green light to monitor their businesses remotely and on-site and keep them safer. SmartOffice, which provides 24-hour video surveillance, lets businesses record, store, access, and share surveillance video 24×7. It also provides secure cloud storage and instant access via mobile devices and has […]