Cable Positive Gives Back at The 2008 Cable Show

Volunteer opportunities available with local AIDS Service Organization

NEW YORK - April 17, 2008

Cable Positive, the cable and telecommunications industry’s AIDS action organization, is calling for volunteers to help accomplish something more gratifying than a business deal during The 2008 Cable Show in New Orleans – help the revitalization efforts in an area still feeling the aftershocks of Hurricane Katrina. 

In collaboration with local AIDS Service Organization (ASO) Project Lazarus, a home for AIDS patients, Cable Positive will lend their hand in assisting the full-time staff in many capacities. These include landscaping, painting, cleaning, cooking, and social interaction with the residents. 

Volunteer opportunities are available Monday, May 19th between 9am – 11:30am and 12pm – 2:30pm; Tuesday, May 20th, between 9am – 12pm. Shuttle service will be provided to and from the Morel Convention Center to Project Lazarus, please meet at Cable Positive’s booth #3035 on the show floor one hour before your shift is scheduled to begin.

If you are interested in volunteering, or would like more information, please contact Dana Levitt, Director of Industry Affairs at Cable Positive, at 212.459.1547 or dana@cablepositive.org

ABOUT PROJECT LAZARUS: Founded in 1983, Project Lazarus is the oldest and largest assisted living residential facility for people living with AIDS in the Gulf Coast Region.  Consisting of four houses, Project Lazarus, originally and still sometimes called Lazarus House, is home to a maximum of 24 individual at a time.  32 full time staff and more than 150 volunteers provide 24-hour care to residents.

ABOUT CABLE POSITIVE: Founded in 1992, Cable Positive is a non-profit organization dedicated to unifying the talents, resources, access and influence of the communications industry to raise AIDS awareness; to fund AIDS education and care; and to promote a more compassionate climate for people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS.