Responses to this year’s edition of The Conference Board's annual survey on corporate contributions indicate that charitable giving by companies and corporate foundations grew at a relatively modest rate in FY 2006 and kept pace with corporate profits. Among the 189 companies that participated in the survey, total contributions of $10.21 billion were distributed to recipients in the United States and overseas in 2006.

Topics Covered:

• Key Findings
• Total Contributions
• Total U.S. Contributions
• Total International Contributions
• Contributions as a Percent of Pretax Income
• Contributions as a Percent of Sales
• Total Contributions perWorldwide Employees
• What They Gave: Cash and Non-Cash Contributions
• Foundation Pay-In and Payout
• Where They Gave: Beneficiaries of U.S. Corporations
• Matched Cases
• Projections for 2007