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Some 1500 companies are profiled. Each entry includes general data (location, business activities, assets, sales, number of employees, Fortune or Forbes rating, officers, subsidiaries); direct giving and foundation program details (purposes, amounts, application procedures); identification of non-monetary support (which accounts for over 20% of company giving annually and is often overlooked). Indexed by officers, donors, and trustees; geographic location; types of support; subject; types of business; corporation, corporate giving, and foundation. Acidic paper. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Identifies American companies that make grants to organizations via either direct-giving programs or corporate foundations. The compiler is the Foundation Center, a longtime reputable publisher of foundation directories. The immediate ancestor of this publication is Sam Sternberg's National Directory of Corporate Charity (1984). Since 1980 the Foundation Center has also published Corporate Foundation Profiles (6th ed., 1990) covering fewer foundations in greater depth. Other comparable sources include Taft Corporate Giving Directory (1984- ), the annual Corporate 500: The Directory of Corporate Philanthropy (5th ed., CH, Apr'87), and Guide to Corporate Giving in the Arts 4 (CH, Apr'88). The directory under review is much better in all respects than Arts 4 and much less expensive than Taft or the Corporate 500. There are more entries than in either of those two sources, but less information about each corporation. Although no list of grants made in the last year is included, information on financial assets and on high and low grants made is available. Entries are arranged A-Z by corporation, with subentries for named direct-giving programs and for corporate foundations. Information typically included in the entries gives name, address, officers, donors, purpose and activities, limitations, and application procedures. There are six indexes: name, geographic area, types of support available, subject, types of businesses included, and a master index of companies, corporate foundations, and direct-giving program names. The information is all verified by the companies included or compiled from publicly available material, such as annual reports, newsletters, brochures, or tax returns (990 PFs). This is a good choice for a library that wants one corporate giving directory. Large university/research libraries will also need Taft and Corporate 500. -A. H. Widder, Michigan State University