News Release

 

March 17, 2008

Contact: Todd Pipitone

Media Alert 

KeyBank and the Key Foundation to make major grant announcement regarding Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection 

WHAT: A press conference to announce Key’s highest-ever grant award to a Rochester-based community organization and how this grant will directly impact the opportunities and future career paths of Rochester City School District students. 

WHEN:  Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. 
WHERE: Dr. Freddie Thomas High School
              625 Scio Street
              Rochester, NY 14605
WHO: James Carriero, KeyBank Rochester District president; Dennis Richardson, Hillside Family
           of Agencies president and CEO; Sarah Amering, Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection
           president; A. Thomas Hildebrandt, Hillside Children’s Foundation president; Hillside
           Work-Scholarship Connection employees and participants.

About Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection
Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, founded in 1987 by Robert and Danny Wegman, is an affiliate of Hillside Family of Agencies. Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection helps urban youth stay in high school by providing academic support, part-time employment experience, and professional mentors (youth advocates) who help their students to develop good habits, achieve academic success, and become responsible young people at home, at work, and in their community. 

Hillside Family of Agencies (www.hillside.com) is a family and children services organization that provides child welfare, mental health, youth development, juvenile justice, special education, and developmental disabilities services across central and western New York. Hillside Family of Agencies is comprised of affiliates Crestwood Children's Center, Crestwood Children's Foundation, Hillside Children's Center, Hillside Children's Foundation, Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, and Snell Farm Children's Center. 

About Key Foundation
Key Foundation is a private foundation funded by KeyCorp. Annual grants and matching gifts are given by the foundation to charitable organizations in the communities Key serves. Grants from Key Foundation principally support organizations and institutions that promote economic independence through financial education and workforce initiatives that foster diversity and inclusion. 

About KeyCorp
KeyCorp is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $100 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. KeyBank N.A. is one of New York’s largest financial institutions. The five-county Rochester District has 15 branches, 16 ATMs and 120 employees.

Need More Information?
Call us, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern time, at (585) 256-7500 or TTY (585) 256-7881. Or tpipiton@hillside.com