Albany Barn to Receive KeyBank Key’s Gifts to the Community Grant

ALBANY, NY – Albany Barn will be awarded a grant in the amount of $3,825.00 as part of KeyBank’s ‘Key’s Gifts to the Community’ program. Funds received from this grant will assist Albany Barn with capacity building initiatives to support the organization’s mission to leverage the creative arts to help catalyze community development. Additional beneficiaries of the Key’s Gifts to the Community program include Saratoga Center for the Family, Unity House, and Habitat for Humanity of Schenectady County.

About Albany Barn

Albany Barn is a local nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization operating a permanent creative arts incubator and community arts center in Albany, NY called The Barn. Albany Barn partnered with the Albany Housing Authority and the City of Albany to redevelop St. Joseph’s Academy, a long-vacant former school building in the Arbor Hill neighborhood, for that purpose. The Barn and Stage 1 Gallery, both located in Arbor Hill, offer affordable residential and work spaces for artist, programming, performance, event, and meeting space available to the community. www.albanybarn.org