Neighbors Make The Difference Day is one of KeyBank’s most visible community volunteer initiatives. The company-wide 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 noontime to enable an estimated 4,600 teammates to complete more than 550 projects with nonprofits amounting to over 18,400 community service hours in a single day.
The full list of projects completed by employees in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts are:
- Boys & Girls Club of Milford, Milford CT – organized and decorated program rooms in preparation for the Club’s summer camp program.
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Haven, North Haven CT – KeyBank staff played flag football and kickball with BGC Club kids.
- Branford Parks and Recreation, Branford CT – outdoor cleanup activities
- Camp Hazen YMCA, Chester, CT – painting and landscaping
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center, Durham, CT – Camp Farnam cleanup projects such as clearing trails and landscaping
- Connecticut Foodshare, Wallingford, CT – inspected and sorted donated food items
- Flying Free Therapeutic Riding Center, North Franklin, CT – pasture cleanup
- Guilford Lakes Elementary School, Guilford, CT – helped weed the garden beds around the school grounds
- Mercy Housing & Shelter/ Community Housing Advocates, Hartford, CT – miscellaneous maintenance tasks throughout the center
- Network Against Domestic Abuse, Enfield, CT – assembled golf tournament registration mailing
- New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT – cleaned aircraft at the museum
- Nueva Esperanza, Holyoke, MA – cleaned and organized toy donations
- Open Pantry Community Services, Springfield, MA – sorted and organized food donations
- Stamford Senior Center, Stamford, CT – painted a mural on the center’s patio, and assembled a small storage shed
- TEEG- Thompson Ecumenical Empower Group, North Grosvenordale, CT – organized and stocked food pantry, garden work
- TEEG, Pomfret Community Center, Pomfret, CT – Assisted with food bank, cleaned premises
- Veterans Base Camp, Chaplin, CT – miscellaneous maintenance tasks
- Women’s Mentoring Network, Stamford CT – sorted and organized donated clothing
(Left to right: Flying Free Therapeutic Riding Center, North Franklin, CT – pasture cleanup; Nueva Esperanza, Holyoke, MA – cleaned and organized toy donations; New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT – cleaned aircraft at the museum)