Actionable benchmarking reports depend on apples-to-apples data and an esteemed list of participating companies.  CECP’s proprietary Corporate Giving Standard (CGS) tool brings these two essential elements together.  Over 135 companies, listed below, took part in this groundbreaking initiative this year, creating an unsurpassed tool for setting budgets and strategy.  Fortune 100 companies are identified in boldface.

Consumer Discretionary   ArvinMeritor, Inc. Best Buy Co., Inc. Carlson DIRECTV Gap Inc. Hasbro, Inc. The Home Depot, Inc. J.C. Penney Company Inc. Macy’s, Inc. Mattel, Inc. The McGraw-Hill Companies Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Pearson plc Philip Morris International Target Corporation Time Warner Inc. Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Toys“R”Us, Inc. The Walt Disney Company   Consumer Staples   Alberto Culver Company Altria Group, Inc. Cargill, Incorporated The Coca-Cola Company Colgate-Palmolive Company ConAgra Foods, Inc. CVS Caremark Corporation General Mills, Inc. The Hershey Company Kimberly-Clark Corporation Kraft Foods Pepsi Bottling Group PepsiCo Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.   Energy   Chevron Corporation ConocoPhillips Exxon Mobil Corporation Halliburton Hess Corporation Shell Oil Company   Financials   Allstate Insurance Company American Express AXA Equitable Bank of America Corporation BNY Mellon Capital One Financial Corporation Citigroup Inc. Citizens Financial Group, Inc. Credit Suisse Deloitte Deutsche Bank FBR Capital Markets Genworth Financial Inc. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. ING Americas JPMorgan Chase & Co. KPMG LLP Legg Mason, Inc. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company MasterCard Worldwide MBIA Inc. MetLife, Inc. Moody’s Corporation Morgan Stanley New York Life Insurance Company NYSE Euronext The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Principal Financial Group, Inc. Prudential Financial, Inc. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company State Street Corporation The Travelers Companies, Inc. UBS Wachovia Corporation Wells Fargo & Company The Western Union Company

Health Care   Abbott Laboratories Aetna Inc. BD Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Cardinal Health, Inc. Eli Lilly and Company GlaxoSmithKline plc HCA Inc. Johnson & Johnson McKesson Corporation Merck & Co., Inc. Pfizer Inc Schering-Plough Corporation UnitedHealth Group WellPoint, Inc. Wyeth   Industrials   3M Crane Co. Emerson Electric Co. FedEx Corporation General Electric Company Illinois Tool Works Inc. ITT Corporation Mitsubishi International Corporation Northrop Grumman Corporation United Technologies Corporation   Information Technology   Accenture Adobe Systems Incorporated Agilent Technologies, Inc. BMC Software, Inc. Cisco Dell Inc. Hewlett-Packard Company IBM Corporation Intel Corporation Microsoft Corporation Pitney Bowes Inc. QUALCOMM Incorporated salesforce.com, inc. Texas Instruments Incorporated Xerox Corporation   Materials   Alcoa Inc. Arch Chemicals, Inc. The Dow Chemical Company DuPont   Telecommunication Services   Sprint Nextel Corporation Verizon Communications Inc.   Utilities   Consolidated Edison, Inc. Constellation Energy Group, Inc. Duke Energy Corporation Entergy Corporation Exelon Corporation FPL Group, Inc. National Grid OGE Energy Corp. PG&E Corporation PNM Resources, Inc. Progress Energy, Inc. Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated Sempra Energy