More Than Eight Thousand KeyCorp Employees Nationwide to Participate in Annual Day of Community Service

CLEVELAND, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 8,000 employees of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) nationwide will participate in the company's 20th annual day of volunteer community service on Tuesday, May 25.  Key staff will spend the afternoon volunteering for a wide array of community service projects in neighborhoods across the nation.  Two-thirds of branches will be closed for the event, but customers may still use local ATMs.

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 two-thirds of available employees will donate an expected 32,000 hours worth nearly $850,000.

Over the 20-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 Henry Meyer, KeyCorp's chairman and chief executive officer.  "We also assist people and communities to achieve economic self-sufficiency, primarily through supporting financial education and workforce development programs that foster diversity and inclusion.  Neighbors Day comes from the heart: it reflects our employees' commitment and desire to make a very personal contribution."

The following are among the hundreds of Key-organized service projects in which the company's employees will participate:

• Alaska (Anchorage):  A team of employees will adopt a house to prep and paint in support of the annual "Paint the Town" event sponsored by NeighborWorks Anchorage.
• Colorado (Denver):  Employees across Metro Denver will be working outdoors at local parks and nonprofits – weeding, mulching, planting, cleaning, repairing and building.
• Idaho (Melba):  Key volunteers will repair the approach to the historic Guffrey Bridge.
• Michigan (Ann Arbor):  Key volunteers will join the local Meals on Wheels to deliver food to those in need.
• New York (Albany):  Key employees will plant flowers and vegetables at a local nursing home.
• Ohio (Cleveland):  Key volunteers will spend the afternoon removing invasive plants from the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to help preserve native species.
• Ohio (Cincinnati):  Employees will work at the Animal Friends Humane Society shelter.
• Utah (Coalville):  Key volunteers will help take a census of local cemeteries.
• Utah (statewide):  Key is supporting the Utah Food Bank's Summer Business Food Drive by sending 60 volunteers to the organization on Neighbors Day, where they will present a $10K check from KeyBank Foundation.  All Key Salt Lake area branches will host a summer-long food drive and continue to provide volunteer opportunities for employees.
• Vermont (Burlington):  Key volunteers will prepare a home-cooked meal for families staying at the local Ronald McDonald House.
• Washington (Metro Seattle):  Key employees will paint and clean at Seattle YouthCare.

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 15,000 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.  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

Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $95 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally.  For more information, visit https://www.key.com/.

SOURCE KeyCorp