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Northampton, MA – News Direct – KeyBank
This year, Key bank is proud to sponsor the 16th annual Jumpstart Read for recording literacy campaign. Jump start provides quality educational opportunities to all young children, with a particular focus on low-income children. brings together organizations from around the world to read the same book to millions of young readers in one day to celebrate literacy and provide access to high quality children’s books.
Support from KeyBank will provide funding for 25 classes in the JumpStart program that focus on preparing children for kindergarten. KeyBank also provided 750 copies of this year’s selection of books, Amy Wu and the patchwork dragon to children aged 2 to 5 living in 17 affordable housing communities in the bank markets of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania.
Victoria O’Brien, KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investments (CDLI) team leader, who leads CDLI’s affordable housing development team, coordinated Key’s JumpStart sponsorship and volunteer efforts in collaboration with two major affordable housing developer clients, The Community Builders and Beacon Communities.
KeyBank CDLI has provided more than $ 8 billion in financing for affordable housing over the past three years. In keeping with the bank’s mission to help communities thrive, “partnering with our clients to help their tenants and residents succeed is at the heart of our values,” said O’Brien. “We are proud to help bring JumpStart’s mission to these communities with the goal of advancing early literacy and preparing all children for success in Kindergarten and beyond. “
In addition to handing out the books, KeyBank employee volunteers organized reading sessions for children at some of the properties.
“Volunteering is at the heart of our inclusive community efforts,” said James Barger, president of Connecticut Market. “We applaud JumpStart for emphasizing literature in its program that reflects the diversity of our communities, and we were pleased to provide Amy Wu and the patchwork dragon, which aligns with Key’s culture of diversity and inclusion.
KeyBank provided books to children in the following accommodations:
See additional multimedia and more ESG storytelling from KeyBank at 3blmedia.com
See the source version on newsdirect.com: https://newsdirect.com/news/keybank-sponsors-jumpstarts-2021-read-for-the-record-r-campaign-and-provides-books-to-children-living-in-affensible-housing-projects- 824697941
