Cleveland, OH - Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation today named KeyCorp executive Margot J. Copeland its 2006 Black Professional of the Year in recognition of her professional achievements, civic contributions, and personal standards. The foundation will honor Copeland on October 7, 2006 at its 26th Anniversary Scholarship and Awards Gala at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven.

"As our 25th Black Professional of the Year," says foundation Vice President Nancella Wilson Harris, "Ms. Copeland joins a prestigious group of Greater Cleveland area professionals recognized for making a significant and positive impact within our community."

Copeland is Director, Corporate Diversity & Philanthropy and an Executive Council member at KeyCorp. In her role, she also serves as chair of the Key Foundation, guiding the company's strategic philanthropic investment in financial education and workforce development programs that encourage people and communities to achieve economic self-sufficiency.

Copeland is a career human resources professional championing environments where people can realize their full potential. She has held positions of increasing responsibility including president and chief executive officer of the Greater Cleveland Roundtable and executive director of Leadership Cleveland prior to joining Key.

Recognizing that business and community prosperity go hand in hand, Copeland leads Key's commitment to transforming and sustaining communities. She currently serves as trustee of the Thomas White Foundation; Kenneth Scott Foundation; The Great Lakes Museum of Science, Environment and Technology; University Hospitals Health System; Playhouse Square Foundation; National Council of Diversity Executives; and Hawken School. Additionally, she is Mentor/Protégé Program Advisor for Morehouse College (Atlanta, Georgia); a member of the Presidents and the Business School Advisory board at Hampton University; the Advisory Board of the National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca, New York). She is also an Honorary Board Member of the Underground Railroad Museum and Freedom Center (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation

For the last twenty-five years, the Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation has provided more than $2,000,000 in educational scholarships for deserving African American students in the Greater Cleveland area. These scholarships, made possible through the Scholarship and Awards Gala, have assisted many youth in obtaining educational goals and becoming productive professional members of our community. For more information, visit www.bpacf.org.

For more information about The Black Professionals Association 26th Anniversary Scholarship and Awards Gala, please contact the BPA Charitable Foundation at (216) 731-5044,

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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 $176.2 billion at March 31, 2021. 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 1,100 branches and more than 1,400 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. 

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