The Teachers' Closet, Inc.

The Teachers' Closet, Inc. The Teachers' Closet provides teachers with free teaching supplies. The Teachers' Closet partners with other organizations in order to buy those supplies.

Our goal is to reach students needing assistance through their teachers and to enrich the school experience for all children. The Teachers' Closet was founded to help teachers obtain supplies for themselves and their students to be used within our community's classrooms. With budget cuts and families struggling to get by, less and less is provided for in our classrooms. Many teachers spend their

own money for the supplies their students need to be successful within their classrooms. We also receive monetary donations from private citizens. Donations of goods are also accepted. We have everything from crayons to deodorant to paper to back packs to warm winter hats and mittens to name just a few things. We also fill special requests that teachers might have such as electric pencil sharpeners, student planners, bean bag chairs, etc. We are open two evenings a week and one Saturday a month. The Teachers' Closet is totally run by volunteers and all donated money goes directly to helping teachers and students.

06/07/2026

Attention:
Times change this week, we are open on Wednesday
1:00 -3:00 only

One of the things that The Teachers’ Closet does, is grant special requests. Sometimes teachers are looking for things w...
06/07/2026

One of the things that The Teachers’ Closet does, is grant special requests. Sometimes teachers are looking for things we don’t stock or happen to have at TTC. Teachers can request those items by completing a Special Request form. A committee reviews the requests, determines if it fits their criteria, and then acquires the item or items. TTC has a Special Request fund which is used for this purpose. One of our recent granted requests was buying the foam material for the music department at Vel Phillips Middle School. Pictured are some of the finished puppets. Other examples of requests granted were sound blocking headphones for autistic kids, electric pencil sharpeners, special calculators, and more. Please consider a donation to our Special Request fund.

Are you a Thrivent Member? If you are, you may have Choice Dollars to award. The Teachers' Closet can be a recipient o...
06/02/2026

Are you a Thrivent Member? If you are, you may have Choice Dollars to award. The Teachers' Closet can be a recipient of Choice Dollars. You can check us out at their catalog here:

Thrivent can help you live generously and be part of something bigger. Make a personal donation or direct some of Thrivent’s charitable funds to a favorite nonprofit organization or cause. The choice is yours!

05/29/2026

June Hours
June 3rd 3:30 - 5:30
June 4th 3:30-5:30
June 10th 1:00 - 3:00
June 17th. 1:00 - 3:00
June 24th. 1:00 - 3:00

Please note the change, after schools are out for summer break, we are only open Wednesdays and the time changes. These openings primarily are for those teaching summer school courses.
We are not open in July.

Our June Donation Day will be Tuesday June 23rd 10:00 - 2:00.

Inquiries can be made at [email protected]

Today was our last day with our Oshkosh North High School “workers”. Most will be graduating in six days. It was a fun y...
05/20/2026

Today was our last day with our Oshkosh North High School “workers”. Most will be graduating in six days. It was a fun year working with and getting to know these students! We celebrated with a pizza party.

On May 12th, The Teachers' Closet was invited to participate in a Generosity Event sponsored by Apex Financial - Thriven...
05/13/2026

On May 12th, The Teachers' Closet was invited to participate in a Generosity Event sponsored by Apex Financial - Thrivent. Clients of Apex met at The Bar in Oshkosh and supported two organizations, ours and 5 Stones/Fox Valley. We received all the supplies in the photo from the clients! This is very helpful this time of year when supplies are getting lower. Pictured are the wonderful staff of Apex Financial that hosted the event. (see info at www.facebook.com/WI.ApexFinancial.Group.Thrivent/)

It is always wonderful to hear from our enrolled teachers to find out how they use items from TTC. This note arrived fr...
05/11/2026

It is always wonderful to hear from our enrolled teachers to find out how they use items from TTC. This note arrived from Kristen Yost Whitney. "Hi! I am a Science teacher at Omro High School and I have visited The Teachers’ Closet several times. I want to share with you one of the ways that I use the supplies that I picked up at TTC. These are paper roller coasters constructed by my 9th grade Physics Fundamentals students. They used tape, cardstock and cardboard tubes to make their projects and stopwatches and calculators for timing their marble run and performing energy calculations! Thank you so much for sharing time and materials with educators. We definitely put them to good use. I will definitely be back in the fall to stock up."

Congratulations to Dr. Phong Nguyen!
05/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Phong Nguyen!

🎶 Drop the mic! 🎤

Huge congratulations to Dr. Phong Nguyen, choir teacher at Vel Phillips Middle School, for being named a quarterfinalist for the 2027 GRAMMY Music Educator Award! 🏆✨

Dr. Nguyen is one of only 202 teachers nationwide recognized for his incredible impact on music education.

Want to see that award-winning dedication in action? Catch our students in Finding Nemo Jr. next week! To bring the show to life, Dr. Nguyen spent countless hours of his own time hand-making 20+ incredible puppets that students absolutely love. Come see them - and Dr. Nguyen’s brilliance- light up the stage!

Finding Nemo Jr. Showtimes:
🐟 7th Grade: May 14 @ 7 PM @ Vel Phillips
🐙 8th Grade: May 15 @ 7 PM @ Vel Phillips

Join us in the comments to congratulate our rockstar educator on this national honor and his amazing work! 👏👏👏

Thank you to all who brought in items today for our April Donation Day! We appreciate the support our community gives ou...
04/25/2026

Thank you to all who brought in items today for our April Donation Day! We appreciate the support our community gives our teachers and students. We had some new faces today and some who have been with us for a long time. Pictured is, Rachel with her sidekick, Myles! Rachel will check with us to see what we are in need of and then bring in those items. That is so helpful!

Address

530 Bay Shore Drive
Oshkosh, WI
54901

Opening Hours

Wednesday 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Thursday 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Telephone

9204265480

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