KeyBank Employees Roll Up Their Sleeves, Get To Work At Branford YMCA

BRANFORD, CT — For more than three decades, on its Neighbors Make the Difference Day, KeyBank employees have left the office, rolled up their collective sleeves, and volunteered for various local community organizations, projects and causes. In a single day, on June 7, more than 160 Connecticut-based KeyBank staffers completed around 640 hours of community service at non-profits.

In Branford, they got to work at the Soundview Family YMCA, painting, planting and digging in to some yard work.

The bank's 31st annual company-wide Neighbors Make the Difference Day is a long-standing annual event that demonstrates KeyBank’s commitment to helping its neighbors and communities thrive.

Nationally, many of Key’s branches closed at noon to enable employees to complete more than 16,000 community service hours in a single day.

In New Haven, employees did landscaping at the Clifford Beers/Farnum Neighborhood House and worked for Habitat for Humanity. In Madison, they did a cleanup at Hammonasset Beach State Park.

Here's the full list of the other volunteer work performed by Connecticut KeyBank employees Tuesday.

Connecticut Food Bank, Wallingford – food sorting and packing

Habitat for Humanity, Bloomfield – home building

Hockanum River Trail, Ellington – trail cleanup and maintenance

Incarnation Center, Ivoryton – camp site cleanup

Mill River Park Collaborative, Stamford – gardening

Mitchell Farm, East Haddam – painting, cleanup

New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks – cleaning museum

TEEG, North Grosvenordale – gardening

Cardinal Shehan Center, Bridgeport – cleaning and prep for summer camp

Sterling House Community Center, Stratford – cleanup and food packing

Stratford Pop Warner Football & Cheerleading – painting