<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-receives-largest-gift-of-kind-through-tax-credit-program.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>10/29/2025 11:22:48 AM</pubDate><title>BC3 receives largest gift of kind through tax-credit program</title><subtitle>MSA Safety’s $50K contribution to support high school programming, financial literacy</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) The Butler County Community College Education Foundation has received the largest Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit contribution since its first in 2012 and from the Cranberry Township-based MSA Safety, an international developer and manufacturer of advanced safety products.</description><author/><image-caption>Butler Intermediate High School students who with teammates were place-winners in Butler County Community College’s Stock Market Game in fall 2024 are shown Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at an awards ceremony in Founders Hall on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. Front row, from left, Schaney Kamerer, Adelynn Miller and Kendall Rose. Back row, from left, Jamie Veltri, family and consumer sciences teacher at Butler Intermediate and a Stock Market Game adviser, and student Brielle Myers. A $50,000 Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit contribution from MSA Safety to the BC3 Education Foundation will help to support BC3’s Stock Market Game.   </image-caption><tags><tag>BC3 Future Fund</tag><tag>Center for Economic Education</tag><tag>EITC</tag><tag>Giving</tag><tag>High School Programs</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2025/bc3-stock-market-game-winners-crop.jpg" alt="Image: a photo of students holding a sign"/></image></item>