PNC Bank will donate $10,000 and promises to match up to $5,000 in other corporate donations to aid an ailing Salvation Army Christmas campaign, the bank said Tuesday.

The Salvation Army's Western Pennsylvania division announced this week that its Christmas kettle campaign is more than $112,000 behind last year's collections in the 28-county area.

"We have only 13 days left to fund-raise," said Lt. Col. Joseph DeMichael, the divisional commander. "If we are to match last year's figures, we'll need to bring in nearly $10,000 a day. This situation is serious and our time is severely limited."

The kettle campaign is suffering locally also -- at least in Greenville.

Capt. Kathleen Waddell of the Greenville corps said its campaign is "just a little behind."

"We've had some good days and some bad days," she said.

The shortage could be attributed to the fact that the Salvation Army in Greenville lost two kettle stands -- one at Quality Farm and Fleet and one at BiLo supermarket -- because the stores closed, Capt. Waddell said.

However, the Sharon Salvation Army's campaign is up 5 percent over what it was this time last year, said Maj. Ted Slye. He said either the slump in the Pittsburgh area isn't affecting Sharon's campaign, or the Salvation Army's exposure in Clark and South Pymatuning Township after the Nov. 10 tornado is encouraging donations.

It's too soon to tell how kettle campaigns are going in the Mercer area. Envoy Joe Bandzak of the Salvation Army's worship center in Mercer said this is the center's first kettle drive and the kettles have not been put up yet.

The Salvation Army service unit in Mercer started its campaign on Monday. While it's too early to know whether donations are up or down this year, cooperation and participation in the campaign have increased from previous years, said Wayne Miller, chairman of Mercer's kettle program.

"The community's interest and work is exceptional this year, but I don't know yet about giving," he said.

Contributions are lagging anywhere from 25 percent to 66 percent in communities including Aliquippa, Clearfield, Franklin, Huntingdon, Oil City, Punxsutawney, Tarentum and others. DeMichael said cold weather last week hurt donations and the Salvation Army needs more kettle workers.

Besides contributing $10,000 to the campaign, PNC also pledged Tuesday to try to recruit up to 1,000 of its workers to staff the kettles in the region. Since 1999, PNC has recruited about 800 volunteers a year to staff the kettles, which raise about 15 percent of the western Pennsylvania division's $23 million budget.

PNC said it will donate an additional $5,000 as a match to other corporate contributions. If the full match is reached, it would mean a total donation from the bank of $15,000.