More than 120 KeyBank employees in Westchester, Dutchess, Rockland, Orange, Ulster and Putnam counties and New York City, recently joined their teammates across the nation in leaving their offices to volunteer for local nonprofits during Neighbors Make the Difference Day, one of KeyBank”™s most visible community volunteer initiatives. The companywide day of service is a long-standing annual event that demonstrates KeyBank”™s commitment to helping its neighbors and communities thrive. Nationally, KeyBank closed the majority of its branches at noon to enable an estimated 4,000 teammates to complete more than 500 projects with nonprofits amounting to over 16,000 community service hours in a single day.
The projects completed by employees in Key”™s Hudson Valley/Metro New York market included Friends of Karen, North Salem; Green Chimneys Children Services, Brewster; Mohonk Preserve, Gardner; Needle Youth Mission Outreach, Poughkeepsie; New Horizons Resources, Pleasant Valley; ReTHINK Food, New York City; Sparrow”™s Nest of the Hudson Valley, Wappingers Falls; Stamford Senior Center, Stamford, Connecticut;
The Bowery Mission, New York City: The Brookside School ”“ The Arc Mid-Hudson, Cottlekill;
Town of Walkill Boys and Girls Club, Circleville; United Way of Dutchess-Orange Region, Poughkeepsie;
United Way of Westchester and Putnam, White Plains; Village of Red Hook Police Department, Red Hook; and West Street Child Care Learning Center Inc., Spring Valley.
