KeyBank employees assisted the Greater Berks Food Bank in sorting and packing various donated nonperishable food items as part of the bank’s Neighbors Make the Difference Day.
About 200 bank employees volunteered on May 24 at 26 community organizations as part of the 27th annual volunteer effort by bank employees.
Those employees joined about 7,000 KeyBank employees who assisted nonprofits and other community organizations in states from Maine to Alaska. The effort was started more than two decades ago by bank employees in Alaska.
Two years later, the idea swept across a number of communities that KeyBank serves and became an official day of employee volunteerism, now the hallmark of the bank’s commitment to its neighborhoods.
In the case of the local food bank, individuals in Berks and Schuylkill counties who do not have ready access to a daily supply of food were aided by the effort.
Based on 2015 statistics, the food bank serves about 41,500 people every month, so it heavily relies on volunteers to be able to serve all those in need, said KeyBank spokesman Michael Henderson.