Contact: Chris Cheuvront
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cleveland Pride is pleased to announce that it will partner with KeyBank for this year’s Cleveland Pride celebration in Voinovich Park on June 20. KeyBank becomes another of Cleveland Pride’s major sponsors this year.
By partnering, Cleveland Pride and Key Bank will promote awareness and acceptance of the LGBT community to the Northeast Ohio region, as well as putting Cleveland Pride’s “Equality through Unity” theme into practice.
“Cleveland Pride is pleased to announce KeyBank as one of our chief sponsors for 2009. This alignment will help to reinforce to the straight community that the LGBT population is a real, viable and vital segment of the Greater Cleveland community,” observed Todd Saporito, 2009 Cleveland Pride Board President/CEO.
“Diversity is a core value at Key. We’re proud of our diversity record and pleased to partner with Cleveland Pride to support the LGBT community in Northeast Ohio,” said Cleveland District President Lisa Oliver.
Key Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer Chuck Hyle, who serves as executive sponsor of the LGBT Key Business Networking Group (KBNG), adds: “The formation of our LGBT KBNG underscores Key’s commitment to attracting, developing, and building relationships with diverse groups of employees and clients. Members of this team represent and support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender employees across all of Key’s lines of business, support areas and geographies.
“Each Key Business Networking Group embodies unique talents, skills and experience that will help Key grow its business. The LGBT KBNG, like its counterparts, is dedicated to helping people make better financial decisions for their lives and businesses by embodying a culture based on the Key Values.”
KeyBank has been named to DiversityInc magazine’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity and received a special distinction in 2007 as a Top 10 Company for Supplier Diversity. Key also has received perfect scores of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmark on how businesses serve and support LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) consumers, employees and investors. In 2007, The Advocate, the leading national LGBT news magazine, cited Key as one of its “Fabulous Five” Best Companies.
According to Oliver, KeyBank will conduct a raffle for a Garmin GPS at its Pride festival booth.
ABOUT KEYCORP
Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $98 billion. BusinessWeek Magazine named Key the top bank in its Customer Service Champ 2009 edition, ranking Key 11th out of the top-25 companies that include many known for their customer service acumen. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. For more information, visit ww.key.com.
ABOUT CLEVELAND PRIDE
Founded in 1989, Cleveland Pride has been an integral part of the Northeastern Ohio region for the past 21 years. Cleveland’s Pride celebration is among the first half-dozen such events launched in the U.S., making our Parade and Festival among the longest continuing Pride events in the country.
On an ongoing basis, Cleveland Pride brings awareness, education and knowledge of the queer community to the general public to discourage/eliminate prejudice and discrimination on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Cleveland Pride openly recognizes and embraces all individuals of the queer community who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer questioning, intersex and straight allies, while understanding that each group identified exists in all ages, races, national origins and physical abilities.
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Cleveland Pride 2012.
June 23, 2012.
12:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Voinovich Park.
Cleveland, Ohio.
