200 Key Equipment Finance Employees Team up for May 24 Annual ...

200 Key Equipment Finance Employees Team up for May 24 Annual Day of Community Service

?Neighbors Make the Difference Day? demonstrates the power of employees working together to benefit their communities.

On May 24, about 200?Key Equipment Finance?employees are stepping up for KeyCorp?s (NYSE: KEY) 22nd annual day of volunteer community service. Key Equipment Finance is the equipment leasing affiliate of KeyBank, and employees in both the company?s Superior, Colorado and Albany, New York offices will take part in the volunteer event.

Some of the company?s local Neighbors Make the Difference Day projects include:

???Boulder County Parks & Open Space:?Volunteers will prepare barns to be painted.

???Colorado Therapeutic Riding Center:?Volunteers will work on irrigation pipes, fence repair and painting, and weed pulling.

???Firefly Autism:?Volunteers will help with yard work, gardening and childproofing various areas.

???Project Linus:?Volunteers will finish partially constructed quilts and blankets.

???Town of Superior:?Volunteers will help clean and prepare the bike route for the Superior Morgul Classic cycling event.

?In just one day, our employees are making a direct impact on their communities through important work projects and fulfillment of needs for organizations that support our local citizens,? said Adam D. Warner, president of Key Equipment Finance. ?Community volunteering is a regular practice by our company and employees, but this signature annual volunteer event demonstrates the power of a concerted group effort. It is with great pride that we are able to help our neighbors.?

Colorado employees also will volunteer at A Precious Child in Broomfield; Birds of Prey in Broomfield; Bridgeway in Lakewood; City of Westminster Pottery Studio, FISH Community Food Bank in Broomfield; Habitat for Humanity building project in Denver; Habitat For Humanity Outlet Store in Wheat Ridge; and Sister Carmen Community Center in Lafayette.

Employees in Albany, New York will volunteer at Bethlehem Children?s School, Double H Ranch, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Southern Saratoga YMCA, and several other community organizations.

More than 8,000 KeyCorp employees nationwide will participate in Neighbors Day, which began in Alaska in 1991 when a group of employees volunteered for an array of service projects in their communities. The idea swept across the bank, where this year employees will donate an expected 32,000 hours, worth about $900,000. Over the 22-year history of Neighbors Day, employees nationwide have given more than half a million volunteer hours to their communities.

One of the leading organized corporate volunteerism efforts in America, Neighbors Make the Difference Day is the signature piece in Key?s year-round philanthropic investment in its communities. Each project is an extension of the company?s commitment to strengthening the quality of life in the communities where its employees live and work.

About Neighbors Make the Difference Day

KeyBank established Neighbors Make a Difference Day in 1991. In 1993, the company rolled out Neighbors Day nationally as a means of enhancing the quality of life in the communities where its 15,500 employees live and work.??While some two-thirds of KeyBank branches close at noon on Neighbors Day, certain locations will remain open.??As always, customers will have access to ATMs.??For more information, call 1.800.Key2YOU.??For details about Neighbors Day and KeyBank?s commitment to volunteerism, visit?www.key.com/community.

About Key Equipment Finance

Key Equipment Finance is one of the largest bank-based equipment finance providers in the U.S. The company provides tailored equipment lease and finance solutions for commercial clients and government entities. Through its vendor services unit, equipment finance programs are developed for manufacturers, distributors and resellers in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Key Equipment Finance also provides lease capital markets support for corporations looking to optimize risk and revenue.

Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, Key Equipment Finance manages $8 billion in assets and originates over $3 billion of equipment financing annually. The company has management and operations bases in Albany, New York; London, England; Frankfurt, Germany; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; Paris, France and Toronto, Canada. The company, which supports clients in over 30 countries, employs approximately 575 people worldwide and has been in the equipment financing business for over 35 years. For more information, visit?www.KEFonline.com.

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About KeyCorp

KeyCorp traces its roots back more than 160 years ago and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.?One of the nation?s largest bank-based financial services companies, Key has assets of approximately $89 billion as of December 31, 2011.

Key provides deposit, lending, cash management and investment services to individuals and small businesses in 14 states under the name of KeyBank N.A. 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?www.key.com. KeyBank is Member FDIC.

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