Donations total $347,000 for twenty-one organizations across the
state of Maine
PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 28,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyBank and KeyBank
Foundation announce (21) twenty-one charitable donations made
recently to nonprofit organizations in Maine. The gifts focus
support to address homelessness, food insecurity, financial
literacy, preventative healthcare and more. The charitable
donations total $347,000 and are part
of KeyBank's community philanthropic efforts targeted toward
education, workforce development, and safe, vital
neighborhoods.
"At KeyBank, our mission is helping our clients and communities
thrive, and that includes supporting local nonprofits that improve
the health and vibrancy of the communities we serve," said KeyBank
Maine Market President Tony DiSotto.
"With these recent donations, we have been able to invest in
communities throughout the state of Maine. We
value these community partners and are proud to support their
work."
The charitable donations announced have been made to the
following community organizations:
Education
- Aroostook County Action Program for its Connecting
Aroostook Youth with Local Employment (CAYLE) program which
supports to low-income Aroostook
County high school and college-aged students with
employment, job-shadowing, and on-the-job training with local
employers.
- Junior Achievement for its high school financial
literacy curriculum.
- Olympia Snowe Women's
Leadership Institute for its "My Values," "My Voice" and "My Vision" program at Lewiston
High School
- Portland Housing Services Corporation to provide
financial support for post-secondary education to low-income
subsidized housing residents through its Portland Housing
Scholarship Fund.
- The Mitchell Institute in support of its goal of
increasing educational opportunity for Maine students.
- Tree Street Youth Inc. for their Motivating Adolescence
Pursuing Leadership Experiences (MAPLE) providing social-emotional
development, academic success, leadership skills, workforce
development and college/career prep for at-risk teens and young
adults.
Workforce Development
- Give It. Get It to support its Digital Inclusion
and Equity Sponsorship Fund, which provides refurbished personal
computers and technical training in an effort to help people break
the cycle of poverty, underemployment, and dependence on social
services through inclusion in digital community spaces and overall
Digital Equity.
- Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center to support
instruction in digital technology, financial literacy and online
marketing as part of a comprehensive training and technical
assistance program to stimulate new business startups led by
immigrant women.
- McCauley House to support +MPower Workforce
Development program which provides workforce and skills training
and career pathway coaching for New Mainers.
Safe, Vital Neighborhoods (includes affordable housing,
health and wellness, basic needs, and social equity)
- Bangor Homeless Shelter under Neighbors for emergency
shelter and supportive services to people who are homeless or at
risk and to advocate for collaborative, locally driven solutions to
end homelessness.
- Furniture Friends to support their furniture
donation program to people in need throughout Greater
Portland.
- Good Shepherd Food Bank to support the food bank's
procurement and distribution of nutritious, culturally relevant
food for people in need across the state.
- Maine Inside Out supporting their theater programs about
social change.
- Maine Medical Center to support the center's
Preventive Medicine Enhancement Program for Maine (PrevME).
- Portland Trails for the Healthier Neighborhoods for
All (HNFA) program, which aims to improve the health of
Portland's neighborhoods, with a
focus on low-income, BIPOC, and immigrant residents, by increasing
awareness and usage of local trails and outdoor spaces.
- SCORE Maine for
its small business workshop and webinar programs serving low-income
business start-ups and current small business owners.
- Spurwink to help them provide behavioral health
care, substance use disorder services and support services for
people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds, and their
families.
- Sweetser to support the organization's statewide
network of community-based mental health, recovery, and educational
services.
- The Third Place for their coworking collaborative to
support Black entrepreneurs, emerging leaders and creatives.
- Trinity Jubilee Center Inc. to support The Day Shelter
and Resource Center, a client-directed and comprehensive hub for
homeless, housing insecure, and low-income residents of
Lewiston-Auburn.
- United Way Women United supporting education,
financial stability, and health of single mothers and their
children in Southern Maine.
About KeyCorp/KeyBank
KeyCorp's (NYSE: KEY) roots trace back nearly 200 years to
Albany, New York. Headquartered in
Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the
nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with
assets of approximately $188 billion
at September 30, 2023. Key
provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services
to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank
National Association through a network of approximately 1,000
branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs. Key also provides a broad
range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products,
such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and
equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in
selected industries throughout the United
States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For
more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is Member
FDIC.
About KeyBank Foundation:
KeyBank Foundation serves to fulfill KeyBank's purpose to help
clients and communities thrive, and its mission is to support
organizations and programs that prepare people for thriving
futures. The Foundation's mission is advanced through three
funding priorities – neighbors, education, and workforce – and
through community service. To provide meaningful philanthropy that
transforms lives, KeyBank Foundation listens carefully to
understand the unique characteristics and needs of its communities
and then backs solutions with targeted philanthropic investments.
KeyBank Foundation is a nonprofit charitable foundation, funded by
KeyCorp.
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