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West Seattle resident Chloe Behar, a senior at Chief Sealth High School, is among the 90 recipients of the Comcast Foundation’s annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program awards in Washington State, the Foundation has announced.

Among Behar’s past and present achievements: helping to organize the school’s World Water Week event, volunteering at a food bank, managing the basketball team and serving in student government and in the Seattle Student Senate. She was captain of softball teams, received a Varsity Letter in soccer and won numerous soccer- and softball-related awards. At the time the school nominated her for the scholarship, Behar was planning to attend Oregon State University in Corvallis.

Chief Sealth teacher Noah Zeichner told the foundation that Behar “has been been essential to the success of World Water Week, a student-led, school-wide local ideas festival.”

The Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program provides $1,000 scholarships to students 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 prepare for the future and to engage them in their communities. The program also demonstrates the importance of civic involvement, and the value placed on civic involvement by the business community.

“Each year, we are excited to provide scholarships for these talented students,” said Charisse R. Lillie, president of the Comcast Foundation and vice president, Community Investment of Comcast Corp. “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.”

To date, Comcast has awarded nearly $19 million to nearly 19,000 Leaders and Achievers Scholarship winners.

For more information, see www.facebook.com/ComcastLeadersandAchievers and www.facebook.com/WePowerDreams.

The Comcast Foundation was founded by Comcast Corporation in June 1999 to provide charitable support to qualified nonprofit 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 $123 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. More information about Comcast in Washington is available at http://www.wacomcast.com