Roseville's Rachel Beck Receives 2012 Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship HIP

ST. PAUL, Minn. (June 2012) – The Comcast
Foundation on Wednesday announced that Roseville’s
Rachel Beck, a senior at Totino Grace High
School in Fridley, has been
named a 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.

Beck 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.

Beck was
honored for her volunteerism and leadership to raise awareness and money to
fight cancer.  During
the “Totino-Grace Kicks Cancer” campaign last fall, Beck became a spokesperson,
educator, advocate and delegator.   With fellow
students she helped organized a fundraiser that sold over 700 shirts and raised
more than $3,000 for the American Cancer Society.  In addition, Beck helped organize a “Pink Out”
at a home football game, when fans, parents and students wore pink in support
of breast cancer awareness. With the help of her peers, she also sold pink
shoelaces for many of her school’s fall athletic programs.

Beck and her team continue to educate
the community by involving parents, supporters and friends of Totino-Grace, including
the school’s executive board.

“The success of the campaign was
the result of the collective work and dedication of a team,” said Beck.  “As a leader, I accept the responsibility to
work hard and motivate others to do the same.”

Beck will attend the University
of St Thomas to study Biology.

“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.”

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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