4-28 What's Going On Comcast Cares Day, PCCY and Living Beyond Breast Cancer

Published: April 26, 2019, 1:05 p.m.

b'Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Bob Smith, Regional Vice President of Community Impact, Comcast \\u2013 Freedom Region and Kim Fraites Dow, President and CEO of Girl Scouts of Eastern PA about the 18th annual Comcast Cares Day May 4th during which nearly 10K Comcast employees, their family, friends and community partners volunteer at more than 200 projects across the Greater Philadelphia Region and New Jersey. One project includes a major clean up at the Girl Scout Camp Shelly Ridge. For more info about registering to volunteer go to www.comcastinthecommunity.com and for info about Girl Scouts camps and joining the nation\\u2019s foremost girl leadership development organization go to http://www.gsep.org/.

Loraine also speaks with Donna Cooper, Executive Director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth about the work of the organization which advocates for young people in areas including education and health. Cooper talks about strategies for improving the quality of Philadelphia school education and also the upcoming Celebration of the 2019 Public Citizens for Children and Youth on May 15th.
https://www.pccy.org/event/celebration-2019-public-citizen-children-youth/
https://www.pccy.org/.,

Sunday May 19th marks the 2019 Living Beyond Breast Cancer Reach and Raise event in which thousands will practice yoga on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to raise funds and awareness around breast cancer. Loraine interviews Jamil Rivers and Felicia Johnson, LBBC board members about the event and how the organization provides needed support to women with breast cancer. To register go to https://www.lbbc.org/.'