Corporate Contributions: The View From Fifty Years

This report, inspired by the 50th anniversary of The Conference Board's Contributions Council and more than 50 years of periodic contributions reports, reviews the evolution of corporate contributions over the past half century, the time it took contributions to be recognized as a distinct corporate activity. It also looks forward to the challenges facing contributions at the turn of the century and in an era of globalization.

Special features:

• highlights
• members of the Corporate Contributions Council, 1999
• beneficiary categories
• corporate contributions, net income, and GDP, 1947 to 1997