Online requests being accepted now for use this academic year
(From left to right: Jeff McDonough, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Community Relations, Michele Bonvicini, Executive Director of the USB Foundation, Jennifer Ingram, Member of the USB Board of Trustees, and Chelen Reyes, President and CEO of Union Savings Bank.)
DANBURY, CONN. (March 16, 2026) – Union Savings Bank (USB) is proud to announce that its Teachers’ Closet program, which provides free school supplies to local elementary schools, has been expanded. The program is now open to all elementary schools in grades Pre-K through five in the Bank’s Western Connecticut market area.
Through Teachers’ Closet, USB collects and delivers supplies such as crayons, colored pencils, spiral notebooks, glue, scissors and more to local schools.
The Teachers’ Closet program currently supports four elementary schools including Morris Street Elementary School and South Street Elementary School, both in Danbury, Brookside Elementary School in Norwalk, and Vogel-Wetmore Elementary School in Torrington. With this expansion, administrators and teachers working in public schools in the towns where USB has branches and conducts business, as well as other nearby areas within the Bank’s footprint are eligible to apply.
“We’ve had great success supporting a few area schools with our Teachers’ Closet program, but we know that the need is widespread,” said Jeff McDonough, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Community Relations of Union Savings Bank. “We know teachers spend hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets on school supplies —so it was time to branch out. These are our neighbors and our customers, so we want to provide as much support as possible and help teachers further the education of children.”
Teachers’ Closet was started by the bank in October 2016 to engage the community to give back to local teachers. Each year, customers can bring donated supplies to any USB branch and bank employees are heavily involved as well, donating, organizing, packing, and distributing the supplies. Since its inception, Union Savings Bank has collected more than 52,000 supplies, donated to 180 teachers, with over 2,500 students benefitting.
For more information, to request supplies or to donate supplies, please visit https://www.unionsavings.com/community/teachers-closet/.
This summer USB will hold its annual “Stock the Closet” drive where the community can drop off new school supplies at all USB branches or order through an Amazon wish list that can also be accessed from the USB website.
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About Union Savings Bank
Established in 1866 and headquartered in Danbury, Conn., Union Savings Bank is a $3 billion mutual bank dedicated to being the bank of choice. As a full-service financial institution, Union Savings Bank provides banking, mortgage, investment, trust and insurance products throughout Connecticut with 25 offices in Bethel, Brookfield, Canton, Danbury, Goshen, Kent, Litchfield, Marble Dale, Monroe, New Fairfield, Norwalk, New Milford, Newtown, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Southbury, Torrington and Washington Depot. The bank provides financial services to individuals, businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and government entities through its commercial, residential and consumer lending, corporate services, retail banking and wealth management divisions. Please visit www.unionsavings.com for more information; the bank can also be found on LinkedIn. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
Community Relations Contact:
Michele Bonvicini
Union Savings Bank
203.830.6045
mbonvicini@unionsavings.com