The College of Charleston’s Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library is conducting a two-week school supply drive from November 14, 2011 through November 23, 2011. Donations will be accepted at the circulation desk and will benefit the Teachers’ Supply Closet (TSC), a local community benefit organization dedicated to providing free school supplies to tri-county schools with the highest poverty rates.
“We want to show our commitment to improving education in the Charleston area,” says David Cohen, dean of Libraries. “Following the big back-to-school push, supplies at the Teachers’ Supply Closet are depleted by the end of the fall semester. We are hoping to help them restock for the spring semester and join with the community to invest in our teachers, who develop and educate our future leaders.”
The top 10 needs of the Teachers’ Supply Closet are: pencils, copy paper, glue sticks, crayons (24 pack), composition notebooks, dry erase markers, pink erasers, Kleenex, hand sanitizer, and scissors.
The mission of the Teachers’ Supply Closet is to serve the educational and creative needs of children in the Tri-County area by providing a unique means to offer free merchandise, donated from businesses and individuals, for teachers to use in their classrooms. The goal is for every child in the area to have the school supplies they need to succeed in school.
For more information about the school supply drive, contact Sherry Gadsden at gadsdens@cofc.edu or 843.953.8001.
