Alison P. Rose
Manager, Standards and Measurement
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy

October 27, 2011 -- CECP has had the privilege of collecting corporate giving data  since 2001. The last ten years have yielded a storehouse of information that illuminates the relationship between corporate giving and the macroeconomic and cultural factors that influence businesses and their communities.

In 2010, the looming threat of a double-dip recession and widespread unease about the future of global markets significantly affected those factors. With unemployment rates remaining high, many communities in the U.S. and abroad struggled to find their footing. Moreover, the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January was only one of several severe natural disasters that commanded an international response.

As 2010 was the third in a series of strained and uncertain years, this edition of Giving in Numbers not only presents a profile of corporate philanthropy in 2010, but also seeks to answer the pivotal question: How has corporate giving changed since the onset of the economic downturn? The multi-year analysis in the opening section of this report offers a short answer: Companies do not always move in tandem. While some have responded to community need at levels that far exceed their contribution levels in 2007, other companies have cut back.

Alison P. Rose
Manager, Standards and Measurement
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy

March 4, 2011 -- For the past 8 years, NYSE Euronext has invited CECP to ring the bell in honor of International Corporate Philanthropy Day (ICPD). As such, on Monday, February 28th, CECP and senior corporate contributions professionals participated in the Opening Bell ceremony, which not only marked the start of the day’s trading, but also officially kicked off CECP’s Board of Boards CEO Conference proceedings uptown at The McGraw-Hill Companies.  As CECP’s representative at the NYSE, I wanted to share some reflections on the experience.

Alison P. Rose
Manager, Standards and Measurement
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy

October 28, 2010 -- Each year, CECP looks forward to reviewing The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 400, a ranking and report on the nation’s largest charities based on levels of non-governmental funds raised.  CECP’s release of the annual Giving in Numbers report, a comprehensive analysis of corporate giving, provides a perfect opportunity to highlight how the corporate findings largely support The Chronicle’s primary conclusions, keeping in mind that corporations are only one of the non-governmental donors to charities.

Alison P. Rose
Manager, Standards and Measurement
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy

August 10, 2010 --Yesterday, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and USA Today released their annual survey on 2009 corporate giving. As CECP mentioned in last year’s Giving in Numbers report, corporate giving professionals can benefit from the research of multiple organizations, provided those professionals are equipped to understand the differences among methods and findings. In the spirit of collaboration, CECP offers this comparison of the high level findings of CECP’s Corporate Giving Standard (CGS) data, which were released in early June, and the new report by The Chronicle/USA Today. CECP’s full analysis of 2009 corporate giving will be available in the Annual Edition of Giving in Numbers, scheduled for release in the fall of 2010.

Download CECP’s first look at 2009 findings » (2 page PDF)