Comcast and the Northern California Golf Association Foundation Create Partnership to Benefit Northern California Kids

Comcast and the Northern California Golf Association Foundation Create Partnership to Benefit Northern California Kids

Comcast Invests More Than $600K to Give Thousands of Kids the Skills to Succeed in the Course of Life

SAN RAMON, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Northern California Golf Association (NCGA) Foundation, dedicated to promoting life skills and values to youth, and Comcast, the nation's largest cable provider of entertainment and communications for home and small business, have teamed up to support the development of Northern California youth.

Comcast's support of the NCGA Foundation's Youth on Course program will offer more deserving Northern California youth the chance to learn to play golf while discovering key values to succeed in life.

"At Comcast, we believe that it's important to invest in our youth," stated Rick Lang, Regional Vice President, Marketing and Sales. "Through our partner NCGA, we will be giving kids the right clubs to succeed in the course of life."

Youth on Course ensures youth age 5-17 with life skills education pay an average of only $2 for a round of golf at 70 participating courses throughout the region. More importantly, the program serves as a building block for deserving youth who have participated in a First Tee or similar life skills program. Kids have the opportunity to use their life skills training on the golf course while they build a passion for the game that will hopefully last a lifetime. Children build self-esteem wile demonstrating honesty, respect, perseverance and courtesy; all characteristics inherent in golf.

"Youth on Course provides an outstanding opportunity for the youth of our region," commented NCGA CEO Admiral David Bill. "The NCGA Foundation is proud to partner with Comcast to make sure Northern California's youth will become productive citizens and successful adults for generations to come."

Kids interested in participating in the Youth on Course program can learn more by visiting the organization's website at http://www.ncgafoundation.org/.

About the Northern California Golf Association Foundation

The NCGA Foundation promotes life skills and values to deserving youth in Northern California through the game of golf. Additionally, the Foundation supports the growth of the game while providing youth the opportunities and motivation to become productive citizens and lifelong golfers. Over the next five years the Foundation will increase the availability and affordability of youth golf through Youth on Course, conduct free clinics and lesson programs for kids, offer college scholarships for deserving youth and create career-enhancing opportunities for adolescents within the golf industry.

This year the NCGA Foundation will subsidize approximately $100,000 in youth green fees through Youth on Course. The Foundation will also continue to award grants to youth programs in Northern California teaching important life skills and values through the game of golf. The Foundation has awarded more than $1 million since 1991, including $140,000 in 2007.

About Comcast

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) (NASDAQ:CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 24.1 million cable customers, 12.4 million high-speed Internet customers, and 3.5 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.

Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, Comcast SportsNet and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet business. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

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CONTACT: Lorena Hernandez, Regional Director, Communications of Comcast
Corporation, +1-925-766-4758, Lorena_Hernandez@cable.comcast.com; or Hilary
Howard, Director of Communications of Northern California Golf Association
Foundation, +1-831-622-8230, hhoward@ncga.org

Web site: http://www.comcast.com/
http://www.ncgafoundation.org/

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