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Commitment to Community
NexTier proudly maintains key commitments to the following organizations:
Many NexTier associates wear jeans each Friday in 2010 as part of their commitment to donating funds to a different charity each month. The giving starts internally because NexTier associates suggest various causes that are important to them and then a monthly benefactor is chosen.The idea kicked off in January 2010 when NexTier donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Donations in February 2010 will benefit Haiti Relief through the American Red Cross.
This Jeans Day commitment for 2010 is not new to NexTier, but builds upon previous annual efforts. For example, NexTier’s 14 jeans days in 2009 resulted in donations for various nonprofits.These included:
- Butler County Humane Society
- United Way of Butler County
- Ellen O'Brien Gaiser Addiction Center
- Project Bundle Up
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters
- NexTier Junior Bank Board
- Honor Flight Network
- Fisher House Foundation
- American Heart Association
- Blind Association
- Crisis Center North
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Spina Bifida Association of Western PA
- Dunbar Community Center
- Toys for Tots
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- National Children’s Leukemia Foundation
- VOICe
Other sponsorships have included: :
- NexTier Stadium in Seneca Valley School District
- Karns City School District digital sign
- Renovation of press box as part of Butler Area School District’s campaign to upgrade its high school athletic facilities
- Official bank of the Butler BlueSox collegiate baseball team (and sponsor)
- Slippery Rock Sliders baseball team
Financial Education in our Communities
"Supporting these programs supplies children and young adults with information they otherwise may not be exposed to. This is an investment in a healthier future economy.”
-- Margaret Irvine Weir, NexTier Bank President
Six educational organizations in western PA recently received $108,000 in funding acquired from NexTier Bank’s involvement with the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program. And 2010 marks NexTier’s third consecutive year of participation in the EITC program. The positive outcome has been NexTier’s ability to distribute funds totaling $508,000 to date. A statewide program, EITC enables businesses to make donations to organizations they choose from Commonwealth-approved lists.
The EITC Program is a statewide initiative enacted by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development in 2001. EITC enables eligible businesses to apply credits against their tax liability for the tax year in which they make a contribution to support education in Pennsylvania.
Organizations receiving NexTier's 2010 EITC funds distribution are:
The NexTier Center for Economic Education at Butler County Community College is in its fifth school year. Through a partnership with EconomicsPennsylvania, the Center promotes economic literacy in grades K-12 for students in Butler, Armstrong, Mercer, and Lawrence county school districts. The Center’s activities include a Business Plan Competition, Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge and Fall and Spring Stock Market Games.These activities have impacted thousands of students. NexTier Wealth Management also provides instruction to teachers for the Stock Market Game.
Each year, NexTier bankers teach savings lessons in local classrooms on National Teach Children to Save Day. This is a program of the American Bankers Association. In 2009, 12 NexTier bankers visited local classrooms, impacting approximately 200 students. NexTier bankers will be visiting classrooms again on April 27, 2010.
A financial education newsletter is available at your fingertips. “Money Talks” is a newsletter that provides a guide for parents to teach financial lessons to kids in four age groups: Young Children, 'Tweens, Teens and Young Adults. Click Here to access the newsletter issues in the NexTier LIbrary.
NexTier associates participate in online e-mentoring of high schools in local school districts. essons in local classrooms. In 2009, a team of three NexTier bankers taught Junior Achievement's elementary program at "His School" in Saxonburg, PA.
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