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March 17, 2008
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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.
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.
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