KeyBank Employees Volunteer Across Chester County

On May 24, KeyBank employees rolled up their sleeves and participated in Key’s 27th annual Neighbors Make the Difference Day, spending the afternoon volunteering at a number of nonprofits across Chester County. The Chester County Food Bank, Habitat for Humanity of Chester County and Handi-Crafters all benefited from the extra sets of hands that helped them with their day-to-day tasks.

Chester County Food Bank: KeyBank employees spent the afternoon planting and maintaining crops at the Springton Manor Farm where the Chester County Food Bank’s “fresh” approach to fighting food insecurity includes growing vegetables and herbs to be distributed to those in need.

Habitat for Humanity of Chester County: Key volunteers loaded and unloaded donations for Habitat’s ReStore, in addition to cleaning and refreshing items on the shop’s floor. The ReStore is Habitat for Humanity’s discount home improvement store whose profits go directly to building and repairing homes in Chester County.

Handi-Crafters: KeyBank employees provided hands-on support to the disability-focused support service program, Handi-Crafters, which provides meaningful employment to truly extraordinary individuals and helps organizations meet their production, assembly and packaging needs.

During KeyBank’s Neighbors Make the Difference Day on May 24, approximately 200 employees volunteered at 26 community organizations across Eastern Pennsylvania. These employees joined nearly 7,000 Key employees across 15 states from Maine to Alaska to provide 28,000 volunteer hours to 900 service projects in the communities the bank serves. Neighbors Make the Difference Day was started more than 25 years ago by a group of employees in Alaska. Two years later, the idea swept across a number of communities that KeyBank serves and became an official day of employee volunteerism, now the hallmark of the bank’s commitment to its neighborhoods.