Charitable Giving at Major Corporations

Many of the largest American companies plan to decrease their charitable donations in 2009, or at least keep them level with last year's, according to the latest Chronicle survey of corporate giving.

• Table: Companies That Have Increased Giving to Hard-Hit Charities Due to the Recession
• Table: The Chronicle's Annual Corporate-Giving Survey: By the Numbers
• Table: Companies That Made 50% or More of Their Gifts in Products
• Table: Companies That Gave More Than $10-Million to Charities Outside the United States

Responding to the recession, some corporations have increased their gifts to food banks, shelters, and similar charities, but often at the expense of arts and other groups.

Some corporate foundations and giving programs, attached to parent companies that are actually doing well in the recession, will be donating just as much or even more to charity this year.

Capital One has devised a pro bono program that gets the banking company's experts involved in its volunteer work more closely than most such programs do.

How The Chronicle's latest survey of corporate philanthropy was conducted.

Join us online Tuesday, June 30 at 12 noon U.S. Eastern time to discuss what grant seekers need to know about winning corporate support in the current economic climate.

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