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Bank on Kindness®
A Community-Minded Commitment from North Shore BankAs a community bank, giving back is important to us. Our Bank on Kindness initiative finds meaningful, fun, and special ways throughout the year to carry out acts of kindness. We look for opportunities – big and small – in our communities to offer help to others and lend our support. North Shore Bank is a community-minded bank, it’s at the heart of what we do. Thank you for contributing to our community campaigns for those in need.
Thank you for helping us spread kindness!
Over the years, North Shore Bank has supported hundreds of worthwhile efforts, and we are grateful to everyone who joined us in contributing to our initiatives and helped spread kindness to others. Below are examples of Bank on Kindness campaigns that touched many in our community.
Our commitment to you.
Whether our kindness crews are dropping off flowers to seniors or “thank yous” to teachers, firefighters, or volunteers, helping to pay for someone’s groceries or gas, or contributing funds to fill pantry shelves; we are happy to support the spread of kindness where we live and work.
We invite you to join us and discover opportunities to perform good deeds and lift one another’s spirits. When you do, include #BankOnKindness and tag us. You can find us where you are in social media under @NorthShoreBank.
100th Milestone Anniversary Marked with 100 Acts of Kindness!
As part of North Shore Bank’s Bank on Kindness® initiative and in celebration of our 100th anniversary, we set a goal to complete 100 Acts of Kindness in 2023, and we shared our acts of kindness stories from our staff carrying out good deeds within the communities we serve on our social media channels.
It was a great way to create happiness for us and others and commemorate our 100 years of service as your community bank.
Support for Children’s Wisconsin
In honor of National Family Literacy Month, we were able to support Children’s by providing books for their Milwaukee and Fox Valley Hospitals as well as its school-based mental health programs with a donation of over $6,000.
Donations helped Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), Child Life and Creative Arts Therapies, and School-Based Mental Health Programs.
Together, we filled the shelves of NICU “book nooks” for countless families to enjoy, plus promoted brain development and bonding; made it possible for Child Life to acquire developmentally-appropriate teaching books to help educate patients about their bodies and diagnoses as well as prepare for procedures and treatments; and allowed therapists to stock their offices with age-appropriate mental and behavioral health books to give to patients — including those in under-served communities. These books help reinforce lessons, tools and tactics long after a session is over.
Food Drives Raise Over $29,000 for Wisconsin Food Pantries
We are grateful to our communities for joining North Shore Bank in spreading kindness to our neighbors in need! With their help, our February 2021 Bank on Kindness initiative to spread goodwill in our communities raised over $23,000 for local hunger-relief efforts in Wisconsin.
Again in February of 2022, our customers, employees, and community members showed support for their favorite participating food pantry with an online donation in our Bank on Kindness campaign. North Shore Bank also gave $4,500 in matching funds ($500 to each food pantry) and over $1,700 in groceries collected in that year's Annual Race for the Hungry to assist food pantries. We’re pleased to have been able to donate over $6,200 to assist our local food pantries.
Through our Bank on Kindness efforts, we are proud to have given to these Wisconsin food pantries: Paul’s Pantry in Green Bay, Family Sharing of Ozaukee County, Shalom Center of Interfaith Network of Kenosha County, Sussex Outreach Services, Food Pantry of Waukesha County, Racine County Food Bank, St. Joseph Food Program in Menasha, the Milwaukee Christian Center, Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee, and Grace Welcome Center.
We appreciate all who helped spread kindness to those in need, and we proudly continue to lend support in our annual Race for the Hungry events and food collections throughout the year.
Nearly $10,000 Raised for Local Veterans!
We are proud to honor Veterans. In 2021, our donation drive for Honor Flight organizations in northeast and southeast Wisconsin totaled $9,690 to support Old Glory Honor Flight and Stars and Stripes Honor Flight.
A total of $9,690 was donated to support local Veterans, with community donations of $5,690 and the bank fully matching the dollars of $2,000 to each organization, Old Glory Honor Flight and Stars and Stripes Honor Flight.
We are grateful to all who supported and paid tribute to our local Veterans. With the community’s help, we raised enough money to cover the costs for 19 individuals to have the Honor Flight experience.
Grateful ‘For the Love of Animals’ Support
Our Bank on Kindness initiatives have also raised funds for local animal-related non-profits.
In May 2021, North Shore Bank held a matching funds drive for local non-profits who care for the animals that bring us joy at Zoos and Humane Societies in eastern Wisconsin.
The online donation drive benefited the Door County Humane Society, Elmbrook Humane Society, Green Bay Humane Society, Milwaukee County Zoo, Wisconsin Humane Society (Milwaukee, WI), NEW Zoo & Adventure Park (Northeastern Wisconsin Zoo, Green Bay, WI), Ozaukee Humane Society, Racine Humane Society, Racine Zoo, Safe Harbor Humane Society (Kenosha, WI), Washington County Humane Society.
Customers and community members showed support for their favorite participating animal organization with a donation For the Love of Animals and North Shore Bank matched donations. As a result, together, we donated nearly $9,000.
We appreciate all who helped spread kindness with a donation.
