KeyBank Employees Lend a Helping Hand to the Perkiomen Valley Watershed Conservancy

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 the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy, who benefited from the extra sets of hands that helped them with their day-to-day tasks.

Key employees spent the afternoon maintaining native plants and gardens in the Conservancy’s greenhouse. Native plants provide food and cover for native species, attracting butterflies, birds and beneficial insects to the Perkiomen Creek’s environment. The Conservancy protects the natural resources of the Perkiomen Creek watershed, which extends 362 miles through Berks, Bucks, Lehigh and Montgomery counties.

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.