CINCINNATI - Key this week presented a $20,000 Key Foundation grant to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in support of sustainability projects aimed at improving and consolidating the organization's governance, planning, and management.

The Freedom Center's sustainability gift programs bring together a variety of key stakeholders and provide an opportunity to embark on a rigorous process strengthening the programs and services provided both internally and through alliances with global partners.

Key's initial $500,000 Key Foundation grant to the National the Freedom Center's Lighting Freedom's Flame Capital Campaign in 2002 helped create the "Reflect, Respond, Resolve" exhibit, inspiring personal involvement in advancing freedom.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center:
Situated in Cincinnati, Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center celebrates the legacy of courage and multicultural cooperation embodied in the story of the Underground Railroad. Of equal importance, the Freedom Center uses a wide array of exhibits to educate the public about the historic and continuing struggle to establish universal freedom in both the U.S. and around the world. For additional information, contact 513.333.7500 or visit www.freedomcenter.org.

KeyCorp:
Cleveland-based KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $92 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, retirement, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. KeyBank Cincinnati District employs 450 people and has 28 branches (KeyCenters) and 100 ATMs across Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren counties in Ohio and Boone, Campbell and Warren counties in Kentucky.

Contact Key Foundation Senior Program Officer Quentin McCorvey at 216.689.5505, or quentin_mccorvey@keybank.com, for more information about corporate grants. Visit the KeyCorp page on Corporate Social Responsibility Wire at http://www.csrwire.com/companyprofile?id=993 for a compilation of news releases about the company relative to philanthropic investment, diversity, community development, corporate governance, environment, business ethics, human rights, and workplace issues.

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KeyBank

KeyBank

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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