Comcast : Making an Impact — Both “Little” and “Big”

As part of the inaugural cohort, Delgado was matched with John Raezer, now a Comcast Vice President of Network Access and Technology, and the two formed an almost immediate bond. A decade later, Delgado can recall his first visit as if it were yesterday.

'I looked forward to coming to the building,' Delgado says. 'Growing up in the neighborhood that I grew up in, a lot of kids didn't have that opportunity to get out the way I did. If I didn't have that positive influence that I got from John, I wouldn't have had the opportunities I was able to encounter now.'

The partnership between Big Brothers Big Sisters and Comcast is probably one of the strongest partnerships in the country. They have been supportive of mentoring at all different levels and really started this whole Beyond School Walls concept of workplace mentoring.

Pam Iorio

President and Chief Executive Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

Raezer, who watched Delgado grow up, says he benefited as much from the program as Delgado did. 'I don't think that either one of us would be the same today without each other,' Raezer explains.

Since that first group of children, the program has expanded across 15 Comcast NBCUniversal locations - and changed more than 2,300 lives, both 'Little' and 'Big.' Ours is the largest Beyond School Walls program in the country, with employees and students coming together every other week to engage in activities such as coding workshops, cooking competitions, and tours of the Comcast Technology Center. In 2018, the average length of our student-employee matches was 23 months, higher than the average of 16.6 months for other site-based mentoring programs run by Big Brothers Big Sisters.