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EDINA’S ERIK REHNBERG RECEIVES 2012 COMCAST LEADERS AND ACHIEVERS SCHOLARSHIP

ST. PAUL, Minn. (June 2012) – The Comcast
Foundation today announced that Edina’s
Erik Rehnberg, a senior at Edina High School, has been named 2012
recipient of the annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program.  The
Comcast Foundation was founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its
local communities and to empower and enrich lives.

 

Rehnberg will be
recognized at a reception at 11:30 a.m., June 18, 2012 at
the Saint Paul Hotel hosted by Ralph Martinez, Comcast, Regional Vice
President, Twin Cities Region.  Rehnberg was honored for his
leadership as editor in chief of the school newspaper.  He will attend the University of Southern
California in the fall.

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 “Each year, we are
excited to provide scholarships for these talented students,” said Mary Beth
Schubert, Comcast’s vice president of corporate affairs.  “Comcast seeks students
who demonstrate leadership abilities in school activities and who reflect a
strong commitment to community service.  These students are our future
leaders and we hope these scholarships will help to power their dreams for
success.”

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The Comcast Leaders and
Achievers Scholarship Program provides one-time $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who strive to achieve their potential, who are
catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in their
schools and who serve as models for their fellow students.  The philosophy
behind the program is to give young people every opportunity to be prepared for
the future, to engage youth in their communities, and to demonstrate the
importance of civic involvement and the value placed on civic involvement by
the business community.

 

Since the national program’s inception in
1999, Comcast has provided scholarship to over 17,000 students totaling over
$17 million.  In the Twin Cities, Comcast started its student scholarship
program in 2004 and to date has honored 306 students, totaling $326,000.

 

About
The Comcast Foundation

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 has three community investment
priorities—promoting community service, expanding digital literacy and building
tomorrow‘s leaders. Since its inception, the Comcast Foundation has donated
more than $90 million to organizations in the communities nationwide that
Comcast serves. More information about the Foundation and its programs is
available at

www.comcast.com/community.

 

 

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