More than half of the employees of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) nationwide participated in the company’s 23rd annual day of volunteer community service on Wednesday, May 22, including 100 in Vermont. Key staff spent the afternoon volunteering for a wide array of community service projects in neighborhoods across the nation. Two-thirds of branches were closed for the event.
Burlington: Key employees volunteered for various jobs at the Intervale Center, Dress for Success, Chittenden Emergency Food Shelter, Committee on Temporary Shelter, Community Health Center and Ronald McDonald House.
Essex: Key employees painted, installed shelves and making general space improvements at the Essex Teen Center
Winooski: Key employees gardened to provide vegetables fresh food kitchen at Vermont Works for Women
Williston: Key employeesbaked cookies/brownies, as well as assisting with outdoor projects at the Vermont Respite House,
St. Albans: Key employees washed windows and staining decks for a fresh look at Care Partners Day Center
Middlebury: Key employees painted the Middlebury Library to give the interior a fresh look
Rutland: Key employees helped with a fundraiser at the Rutland Housing Authority
Barre: Key employees worked on general clean- up at the First Presbyterian Church.
Neighbors Day began in Alaska in 1991, when a group of employees volunteered for an array of service projects in their communities. The idea swept across the bank, where this year employees will donate an expected 30,000 hours, worth approximately $900,000.
Over the 22-year history of Neighbors Day, employees have given more than half a million volunteer hours to their communities.
One of the leading organized corporate volunteerism efforts in America, Neighbors Make the Difference Day is the signature piece in Key’s year-round philanthropic investment in its communities. Each project is an extension of the company’s commitment to strengthening the quality of life in the communities where its employees live and work.
‘As a bank, we help to improve the financial infrastructure of the cities and towns in which we do business,’notes Beth Mooney, KeyCorp’s chairman and chief executive officer. ‘Neighbors Day comes from the heart: it reflects our employees’commitment and desire to make a very personal contribution.’
About Neighbors Make the Difference Day
KeyBank established Neighbors Make a Difference Day in 1991. In 1993, the company rolled out Neighbors Day nationally as a means of enhancing the quality of life in the communities where its 15,500 employees live and work. While some two-thirds of KeyBank branches close at noon on Neighbors Day, certain locations will remain open. As always, customers will have access to ATMs, as well as online and mobile banking. For more information, call 1.800.Key2YOU. For details about Neighbors Day and KeyBank’s commitment to volunteerism, visit www.key.com/community.
About KeyCorp:
KeyCorp was organized more than 160 years ago and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, Key had assets of approximately $89.2 billion at March 31, 2013.
Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals and small businesses in 14 states under the name of KeyBank N.A. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/aboutkey.