SEATTLE, April 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Treehouse,
which gives youth in foster care a childhood and a future, received
a $10,000 grant from the KeyBank
Foundation as part of its April 3
Community Impact Day that distributed more than $1.9 million to almost 20 nonprofits in the
greater Seattle area. KeyBank CEO
Beth Mooney was in town from
KeyBank's Cleveland headquarters
to announce the grants with Carol K.
Nelson, Pacific Regional Sales Executive and Seattle Market
President.
The funds will go toward the statewide expansion of Treehouse's
Graduation Success program. The nonprofit has increased the
extended high school graduation rate to 89 percent for its youth.
In regions where the program is not yet available, the rate is only
49 percent.
Many of the nonprofit recipients were chosen by local Key
Business Impact Networking Groups (KBINGs), employee groups that
are a vital part of Key's diversity and inclusion strategy to help
KeyBank attract, engage, develop and retain a diverse workforce and
inform Key's business strategies. Seattle has eight active KBINGs: Key Executive
Women's Network, Young Professionals, Military Inclusion, African
American, Asian/ Pacific Islanders, Hispanic/Latino, Champions of
People of All Abilities and LGBTQA. The groups were on hand to help
distribute the donations.
The KeyBank Young Professionals of Washington were responsible for getting
funding secured for Treehouse.
"Our mission is to help our communities thrive," said KeyBank's
Nelson. "Philanthropy is part of KeyBank's DNA, and we are
dedicated to building stronger communities and improving the lives
of the people we call neighbors in the places we call home."
In the Seattle region, KeyBank
actively invests in the communities it serves through philanthropy,
volunteerism and board service.
"KeyBank's support goes a long way to breaking down the many
obstacles youth in foster care face," said Janis Avery, CEO of Treehouse. "Collectively, we
are weaving together the middle class safety net our most
vulnerable youth need."
About Treehouse
Founded in 1988, Treehouse is Washington's leading nonprofit organization
addressing the academic and other essential support needs of youth
in foster care. More than 7,500 youth each year prosper through
programs that focus on their academic success, fulfill key material
needs and provide important childhood experiences every child
deserves. Learn more at www.treehouseforkids.org.
About KeyCorp
KeyCorp's roots trace back 190 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 $136.7
billion at September 30,
2017.
Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, insurance, and
investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states
under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of
more than 1,200 branches and more than 1,500 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 KeyBank Capital
Markets trade name. For more information, visit
https://www.key.com/. KeyBank is Member FDIC.
Contact:
Jesse Colman
206-267-5145
jesse.colman@treehouseforkids.org
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