Thank you for a successful September School Supply Drive to support our local communities

Throughout the month of September, we conducted a school supply drive as part of our Bank on Kindness initiative supporting our 100th anniversary! 

During the week of September 11, North Shore Bank corporate and branch employees were encouraged to bring in must-have teacher supplies to donate to local teachers and schools across the communities we serve. Each branch then selected a teacher or school to donate the collected items to. 

Corporate employees also got involved and facilitated donations on each floor. Each of the five floors at North Shore Bank’s corporate headquarters in Brookfield had their own collection and selected their own teacher or school to donate the supplies to. 

After the school supply drive ended, branch team members and the floor coordinators from corporate delivered the boxes of collected donations to their chosen teachers and schools during the weeks that followed. 

The second floor at North Shore Bank’s corporate headquarters donated their collected items to Red Apple Elementary School in Racine. They donated a variety of school supplies from construction paper to markers, pens, and more! Red Apple Elementary made a post thanking the bank on Facebook for its generosity.

Meanwhile, the Howard Suamico branch donated their teacher supplies to Maggie Corley, a fourth grade teacher from Forest Glen Elementary School. Maggie was incredibly surprised and appreciative of the donation, especially as she is a newer teacher! Along with supplies, the Howard Suamico Branch contributed a gift card to Domino’s for Maggie’s class to have a pizza party, plus gift cards to Dunkin Donuts and Kwik Trip specifically for Maggie – helping to power her rides to and from school. 

Read more here. 

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Throwback: employee cutouts as proven means of marketing in 1991 for North Shore Bank

In 1991, a new marketing tactic was put to use by the bank; life-sized cardboard cut-outs of North Shore Bank employees roamed the aisles of Cub Foods stores across Green Bay and Appleton. 

At the time, North Shore Bank branches were located in the Cub Food Stores of Green Bay West, Green Bay East and Appleton. North Shore Bank’s Kerri Collins was a manager at one of the bank branches located in Cub Foods at the time and was one of the lucky three employees selected to be the face (literally) of a new advertising campaign for North Shore Bank.

Life-size cardboard cut-outs were all the rage at the time, with the Green Bay Packers own, Brett Favre, popping up everywhere. He was soon rivaled in the Green Bay and Appleton area by Kerri and two of her colleagues at North Shore Bank. 

An advertising agency worked with Kerri and her colleagues to organize a photoshoot and create three different cutouts of each person. In each cutout, Kerri and her colleagues had on different outfits and posed differently so that the cutouts could be placed throughout the Cub Foods Stores. They posed in different ways, but their hands were always placed so that they could hold a brochure or rack where promotional materials could be displayed on the cutout itself. 

Overnight, Kerri became a local celebrity – with people she didn’t know giving her second looks and asking where they knew her from. Her answer? North Shore Bank and Cub Foods of course! 

Some days, Kerri recalls that she would come into the Cub Foods store and her cutout would be missing. After a bit of searching, the cutouts would be found in the oddest of places – from upside down in a shopping cart to hanging out in one of the freezers, the cutouts often had to be hunted down. Mustaches were also often drawn on the cutouts – always in good fun of course!

Because the cutouts often disappeared, the bank eventually did away with them as part of their marketing repertoire. But to this day, Kerri still has her cutout downstairs in her basement, reminding her of when she was a local celebrity to all Cub Foods and North Shore Bank customers in the Green Bay and Appleton communities.

Contact Center Representative, Nahomy Rodriguez, wins bonus for referring new employees

The winner of the third-quarter bonus for referring new employees was Contact Center Representative, Nahomy Rodriguez! 

“I refer people to North Shore Bank because I believe there’s equal opportunity for everyone and there is enough space to grow and spread your wings,” says Rodriguez.

Congratulations to Nahomy on winning the third-quarter Employee Referral Bonus! If you know someone who may be interested in joining us at North Shore Bank, or you would like to learn more about the bank’s referral program, visit Ask Seymour for more information.

Welcome to our July and August New Hires

Say a big North Shore Bank welcome to the below employees who recently joined the bank!

• Dustin Rakowiecki joined us as a personal banker at the Cudahy branch
• Samantha Mars joined us as a teller at the Oak Creek branch
• Deja Rasberry joined us as an online and mobile banking rep in our Customer Support Center
• Joel Leibengood joined us as an associate advisor in our Investment Services department
• Carly Adams joined us as a personal banker at the Burlington branch
• Salvatore Napoli joined us as a contact center specialist in our Customer Support Center
• Nicholas Rodiez joined us as a lead teller at the Germantown branch
• Angel Young joined us as a teller at our Southwest branch
• Emerson Small joined us as a teller at our Forest Home branch
• Jurgen Sanchez joined us as an associate banker at our Jackson Park branch
• Tyler Kebis joined us as a business relationship specialist in our Business Banking department
• Julissa Lomeli joined us as a teller at our Mitchell Street branch

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