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.
A few branches received handwritten thank you notes to express their appreciation for the acts of kindness. Fourth grade students from Red Smith School, along with their teacher, Ashley Betters, shared a hand-written thank you note with Sharon Hack, the Area Manager for the Green Bay West and Ashwaubenon branches.
Additionally, Michelle Gospodarek, a teacher who received a donation box from the North Shore Bank Sussex branch sent a note sharing her thanks.
“Thank you so very much for recognizing teachers and supporting our goal of helping students in all ways,” she wrote. “I was so honored to be nominated and beyond excited to have won the funding for my classroom…I spent the money wisely on high level math problem solving games and in the creation of a ‘Take 2’ center.”
It has been awe inspiring to see what we can do as a bank for our communities when we all come together. The generosity and kindness we’ve helped spread with the school supply drive has touched and improved the lives of so many, from teachers, to students, and faculty. Thank you again for your participation!
