Does your employer support your contribution?

More and more employers are recognizing the value of supporting their empoyees' charitable giving. Not only can this be good for the company's PR, but studies have shown that these matches can also improve morale!

You can find out if your company will match your donations or your volunteer hours by asking your HR department. If they do, please let your volunteer supervisor know.

Below is just a partial list of companies that offer charitable matching:

3Com Corporation
3M Corporation
Abbott Laboratories
Adaptec, Inc.
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Advanced Fibre Communications
Aetna Foundation
Alexander & Baldwin
ALZA Corporation
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
American Express Corp.
American International Group
Amgen
Aon Corporation
Applera Corporation
Applied Materials
Argonaut Group, Inc.
Aspect Global Giving Program
AT&T
Autodesk, Inc.
Automatic Data Processing
Bank of America
Barclays Global Investors
Becton Dickinson & Co.
Birkenstock Footprint Sandals
Blue Shield of California
BP Foundation
Sophie & Arthur Brody Fndn.
BTW Consultants, Inc.
Business Wire
Cadence Design System, Inc.
California Endowment
California HealthCare
Calpine Corporation
Capital Group Companies
Carnegie Foundation
Chubb & Son, Inc.
Cingular Wireless
Citigroup
Clorox Corporation
CMP Media, Inc.
Coca-Cola Foundation
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Compton Foundation
Computer Associates Int'l, Inc.
S. H. Cowell Foundation
Del Monte Foods
Deutsche Bank Americas
Diageo North America
Duty Free Shoppers Group Ltd.
eBay
Electronic Arts, Inc.
eLuxury - LVMH - SDG
Emerson Electric Company
Fair, Isaac & Company, Inc.
Fannie Mae
Federated Department Stores
First Data Corporation
C.B. Fleet
FleetBoston Financial
Flora Family Foundation
Frankel Allen
Fremont Group
The Gap
Gartner, Inc.
Genentech, Inc.
General Electric
General Mills
General Re Corp.
GlaxoSmithKline
Google
Grainger
Greater Bay Bancorp
Guidant
Harris Bank
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Hewlett Packard
Household International
IBM Corporation
Illinois Tool Works (ITW)
Integrated Circuit Systems
International Data Group
Intuit
James Irvine Foundation
Irwin Home Equity
Itochu International
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson Controls
Juniper Networks
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Kochis Fitz
Lam Research Corporation
Lehman Brothers
Levi Strauss
Libbey, Inc.
LVMH (eLuxury, Sephora, DFS)
Macromedia
Mal Warwick Associates
Marin Community Foundation
Maritz, Inc.
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Mellon Financial Corporation
Merck Company
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
MFS Investment Management
Microsoft Corporation
Moody's Corporation
Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Morgan Chase
Morrison & Foerster
Prudential
Qualcomm Inc.
National Semiconductor
Newsweek
Nokia
Norcal Mutual Insurance
Northern Trust Company
Novartis US
Norvellus Systems
Oracle Corporation
David & Lucille Packard Fndn
PepsiCo (PBG)
Pequot Capital Management
Pfizer
PPG Industries
Providian Financial
QUALCOMM
Quest Diagnostics
Response Management
Roche Diagnostics
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Group
Rockwell Collins
Rosendin Electric
SAP
SBC
SPX Corporation
San Francisco Foundation
Schwab Corporation
Sephora
Shaklee
Sony Electronics Inc.
Sprint
Starbucks
Stuart Foundation
Sun Microsystems
Symantec Corp.
Synopsys
Tenet Healthcare
Tiffany & Co.
UBS Realty Investors LLC
Unilever United States, Inc.
Union Bank of California
Union Pacific Railroad
United Technologies Corp.
UPS
Verizon
Wachovia
Washington Mutual
Waters Corporation
Wellpoint Foundation
West Group
Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Willis Lease Finance Corp.
Xcel Energy
Xilinx
Yahoo!

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