Actionable benchmarking reports depend on rigorous valuation and a robust list of participating companies.  CECP’s proprietary Corporate Giving Standard (CGS) tool brings these two essential elements together.  More than 210 companies, listed below, took part in the 2011 survey, creating an unsurpassed tool for setting budgets and strategy.  2009 to 2011 matched-set companies are in boldface  and the top 100 companies from the FORTUNE 500 are indicated with a †. Numbers following are the number of years each company has completed the CGS survey.

Consumer Discretionary (N=31) AEG Worldwide (1) Anheuser-Busch InBev (1) Apollo Group, Inc. (1) Best Buy Co., Inc.† (6) Carlson (10) Darden Restaurants, Inc. (2) DIRECTV (5) Gap Inc. (9) Hasbro, Inc. (11) Honda North America (1) J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (6) JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (2) Johnson Controls, Inc.† (3) Limited Brands, Inc. (3) Macy's, Inc. (6) Marriott International, Inc. (1) Mattel (8) Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (2) Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (6) Pearson (7) Southwest Airlines Co. (1) Starbucks Coffee (2) Target† (10) The Home Depot† (10) The McGraw-Hill Companies (10) The Walt Disney Company† (7) Time Warner (11) Toyota Motor North America (10) Toys "R" Us (7) Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (1) Yum! Brands, Inc. (1)   Consumer Staples (N=16) Altria Group (10) Campbell Soup Company (4) Cargill, Inc. (7) Coca-Cola Companies† (10) ConAgra Foods, Inc. (6) CVS Caremark Corporation† (8) General Mills, Inc. (7) Kimberly-Clark Corporation (6) Kraft Foods Inc.† (5) McCormick & Company, Incorporated (2) PepsiCo, Inc.† (7) Philip Morris International Management S.A.† (4) The Colgate-Palmolive Company (7) The Hershey Company (8) The Procter & Gamble Company† (3) Wal-Mart† (8)   Energy (N=7) Chesapeake Energy Corporation (2) Chevron Corporation† (11) CITGO Petroleum Corporation (2) ConocoPhillips† (6) Exxon Mobil Corporation† (6) Hess Corporation† (5) Shell Oil Company U.S. (9)   Financials (N=52) American Express† (7) Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (1) AXA Financial, Inc. (4) Bank of America† (11) Barclays (2) BBVA (4) Bloomberg L.P. (3) Bonds Group of Companies (1) Capital One Financial Corporation (4) Citigroup† (9) Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (6) Deloitte (11) Fannie Mae† (6) First Data Corporation (3) Genworth Financial, Inc. (7) Goldman Sachs† (9) Guardian Life Insurance Company (3) HSBC North America (8) ING US Foundation (5) JPMorganChase† (11) KeyCorp (1) KPMG (9) Legg Mason (5) Lincoln Financial Group (1) Macquarie Group Foundation (1) Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (2) Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (4) MetLife† (8) Moody's Corporation (7) Morgan Stanley† (10) New York Life Insurance Company† (4) Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (2) NYSE Euronext (7) PNC Financial Services (7) Popular, Inc. (3) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (2) Principal Financial Group (6) Prudential Insurance Company† (8) Royal Bank of Canada (2) State Farm Insurance Companies† (8) State Street Corporation (5) T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (2) The Allstate Corporation† (7) The Bank of New York Mellon (7) The Hartford (5) The Travelers Companies, Inc. (6) TIAA-CREF† (1) U.S. Bancorp (1) UBS (5) Wells Fargo & Company† (10) Weyerhaeuser Company (1) Zurich Insurance Group (4)

Health Care (N=26) Abbott Laboratories† (6) Aetna† (10) Agilent Technologies, Inc. (8) Amgen Inc. (2) BD (6) Boston Scientific Corporation (1) Bristol-Myers Squibb (11) Cardinal Health, Inc.† (5) CIGNA Corporation (3) DaVita Inc. (3) Eli Lilly & Company (11) Express Scripts, Inc.† (3) GlaxoSmithKline (10) HCA Inc.† (7) Humana Inc.† (3) Johnson & Johnson† (9) Kaiser Permanente (1) McKesson Corporation† (8) Medco Health Solutions, Inc.† (1) Medtronic, Inc. (3) Merck & Co, Inc.† (8) Pfizer† (9) Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (3) Sanofi (4) UnitedHealth Group† (6) WellPoint Foundation† (7)   Industrials (N=27) 3M (8) Caterpillar Inc.† (4) Corning Incorporated (1) Crane Co. (8) CSX Corporation (3) Cummins Inc. (1) Eaton Corporation (3) Emerson Electric (7) FedEx Corporation† (4) General Electric† (10) Honeywell International Inc.† (1) Illinois Tool Works Inc. (5) John Deere† (2) Lockheed Martin Corporation† (5) Masco Corporation (2) Meritor, Inc. (6) Mitsubishi International Corporation (8) Northrop Grumman Corporation (5) Pitney Bowes Inc. (5) Raytheon Company (2) Rockwell Automation, Inc. (1) Rockwell Collins, Inc. (2) Ryder System, Inc. (3) The Boeing Company† (5) Union Pacific Corporation (2) UTC† (9) Xylem (1)   Information Technology (N=21) Adobe Systems Incorporated Applied Materials, Inc. BMC Software Cisco Systems† Dell Inc.† eBay Inc. EMC Corporation Google Inc.† Hewlett-Packard Company† IBM Corporation† Intel Corporation† MasterCard Worldwide Microsoft Corporation† Qualcomm Incorporated Sabre Holdings salesforce.com Symantec Corporation Texas Instruments Incorporated The Western Union Company Xerox Corporation   Materials (N=11) Alcoa, Inc. (7) ArcelorMittal USA (1) Ashland Inc. (3) DuPont† (5) FMC Corporation (3) MeadWestvaco Corporation (1) Mosaic Company (3) Owens Corning (1) The Dow Chemical Company† (8) Vale (1) Vulcan Materials Company (2)   Telecommunication Services (N=4) AT&T Inc.† (1) Sprint Nextel Corporation† (7) Verizon Communications† (9) Vodafone Group Plc (2)   Utilities (N=19) American Electric Power Co., Inc. (2) Arizona Public Service Company (1) CMS Energy Corporation (1) Con Edison (11) Constellation Energy (8) Dominion Resources, Inc. (2) Duke Energy Corporation (7) Entergy Corporation (7) Exelon Corporation (5) Indianapolis Power & Light Company (1) PG&E Company (7) Progress Energy, Inc. (7) Public Service Enterprise Group   Incorporated (4) Sempra Energy (6) Southern California Edison (7) Southern Company (1) TECO Energy, Inc. (3) Waste Management, Inc. (1) Xcel Energy Inc. (3)