Survey of Corporate Giving: How It Was Conducted
The Chronicle’s corporate-giving survey is based on financial information ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving at 91 Major Corporations: View list, additional charts, and related articles provided by many of the nation’s top companies as ranked according to their annual revenue by Fortune magazine. The 150…
By Debra E. Blum and Harvy Lipman
New Studies Provide Insight Into Why Companies Give and Who Benefits
Three new studies on corporate philanthropy shed light on why large companies give -- and what kinds of organizations they support: * A national study of 226 large companies by a University of New Hampshire professor ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving at 91 Major Corporations: View list, additional charts,…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Spate of Corporate Mergers Is Reshaping Philanthropy Nationwide
Corporate mergers are changing the shape of business giving nationwide. In the past year, at least 9 of the 100 companies listed by Fortune magazine in 1998 as America’s largest corporations ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving at 91 Major Corporations: View list, additional charts, and related articles have…
By Debra E. Blum and Harvy Lipman
Companies’ Charitable Gifts Follow Their Revenue and Go Overseas
Before 1996, less than 1 per cent of the Eastman Kodak Company’s charitable gifts went to organizations overseas. ALSO SEE:Charitable Giving at 91 Major Corporations: View list, additional charts, and related articles This year, the Rochester, N.Y., company, which sells film worldwide, expects to…
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Photograph by Rob Klein Since 1917, the International Center for the Disabled, in New York, has been helping people improve their lives and find jobs. The charity, which is the nation’s oldest outpatient rehabilitation center, offers a comprehensive array of services for disabled people, including…
Corporate Giving’s Growth Slows
Rise in 1999 donations can’t match double-digit increases of recent years Charitable giving by many of the nation’s largest companies will grow at a much slower rate this year than in the recent past. Among 62 companies that reported their 1999 giving budgets to The Chronicle, total cash…
By Debra E. Blum and Harvy Lipman
Top 20 Corporations, Ranked by Giving as a Percentage of Previous Year’s Pre-Tax Profits
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Top 20 Corporations, Ranked by Giving as a Percentage of Previous Year’s Pre-Tax Profits
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Winston Foundation to Close After 14 Years
The Winston Foundation for World Peace, in Washington, will shut down at the end of August after having given away nearly $15-million to international-security projects. The foundation had been phasing out its work over the past seven years, after the board decided to give away all its assets. “It…
White House Honors AIDS Educator and 14 Other Volunteers
Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s Daily Points of Light Award. The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the President in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the…
Doctor Bequeaths $12-Million to College in Mo.; Other Recent Donations
A Missouri college and a Minnesota scholarship program have received big gifts. * The College of the Ozarks, in Point Lookout, Mo., has received a bequest valued at $12-million from Joe T. McKibben, a retired surgeon. The donor had no ties to the institution, but was impressed by its policy of…
Where the Casey Foundation Will Focus Its New Programs
ALSO SEE:Casey Goes to Bat for Families Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping Kids The Annie E. Casey Foundation plans to spend more than $500-million over the next decade on a new program designed to transform poor neighborhoods. Following are the cities where the…
Gateses Double Size of Their Foundation by Making a $5-Billion Gift
The $5-billion gift of stock that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, ALSO SEE: The Nation’s 5 Wealthiest Foundations this month poured into their private foundation has made the William H. Gates Foundation one of the five wealthiest philanthropies in the nation. With assets of…
By DOMENICA MARCHETTI
Contributor
Built on a Delivery Boy’s Dream, Casey Foundation Focuses on Helping Kids
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, one of the nation’s 30 largest foundations, was created by a Seattle man ALSO SEE:Casey Goes to Bat for FamiliesWhere the Casey Foundation Will Focus Its New Programs who dropped out of school and started a courier service to support his family. Of course, it didn’t…
By Meg Sommerfeld
Contributor
Photograph by Oscar H. Izquierdo For 25 years, Ronald McDonald Houses from Philadelphia to New Zealand have provided a home base for families of seriously ill children undergoing treatment at nearby hospitals -- with the 200th Ronald McDonald House scheduled to open in Budapest later this summer.…