(Greenville, PA) A Butler County Community College faculty member from Greenville and breast-cancer survivor says she will match dollar-for-dollar community contributions up to a total of $500 by Oct. 31 to fund a BC3 Education Foundation scholarship she has established to support a BC3 student who survived or who helped a loved one to battle the disease.

Melissa Philson survived malignant invasive ductal carcinoma, estrogen and progesterone receptor positive, HER 2 negative.

She is a BC3 psychology professor and co-adviser of BC3’s social awareness club, which this month is conducting a Project Pink campaign that in Octobers since 2010 has raised approximately $24,000 to support breast cancer awareness and research.

Seventy-five percent of Project Pink’s 2025 proceeds will be contributed to A Glimmer of Hope Foundation, Wexford. The nonprofit organization, its website states, supports research, programs and studies – particularly focusing on premenopausal breast cancer, which is often more aggressive in younger women.

Twenty-five percent of funds raised will support the “BC3’s Project Pink for Hope Scholarship” established by Philson.

Donations noted to fund “BC3’s Project Pink for Hope Scholarship” can be delivered or sent to the BC3 Education Foundation, 107 College Drive, Butler, PA 16002.

The college’s social awareness club as part of BC3’s Project Pink campaign is seeking gift card contributions by Oct. 15 from BC3 departments, student clubs, organizations and employees, and from businesses or community members.

Club members will sell raffle tickets for the gift cards from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 29 from a Project Pink tent to be raised on the college’s main campus in Butler Township.

Tickets will also be sold at the college bookstore from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 30 and from 8:30 a.m. until noon Oct. 31. A drawing will follow at 12:30 p.m. in the bookstore and winners notified after 1 p.m.

The college’s bookstore will sell short-sleeved Project Pink shirts beginning Oct. 15 for $18. Five dollars from each sale will be contributed to the campaign, according to Rich Benko, bookstore manager.