July 13, 2000

Corporate Giving Rises Again

By DEBRA E. BLUM

But double-digit growth barely keeps pace with pre-tax profits

Corporate contributions jumped by 12 percent last year and are expected to continue growing apace this year, a new Chronicle survey of the nation's top businesses has found.

Company giving budgets, which began to grow again in the mid-1990's after nearly a decade of stagnation, have seen double-digit growth in each of the last four years, according to

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