Business Contributions to Haiti Relief Efforts Pass $122 Million

Wow.

According to the Business Civic Leadership Center, a program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, $61 million in corporate pledges had been announced as of 3:00 p.m. EST, January 16, with 28 donors pledging $1 million or more in cash or a mix of cash and in-kind support.

Update: As of 5:00 p.m. Monday, January 18, corporate contributions (cash and in-kind)to relief efforts had passed $75 million. 

Update: As of 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 21, corporate contributions (cash and in-kind) to relief efforts had passed $83.2 million.

Update: As of 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 22, corporate contributions (cash and in-kind)had passed $106 million -- the fifth-largest corporate response to a natural disaster on record -- with 43 companies having given $1 million or more.

Update: As of 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 26, corporate contributions (cash and in-kind)had passed $122 million, with 51 companies having donated $1 million or more.

Million-plus commitments include:

• Jefferies & Co. ($7.5 million)
• Teva Pharmaceuticals ($7 million)
• Carnival Corporations ($5 million)
• Digicel ($5 million)
• Deutsche Bank AG ($4 million)
• Merck ($3.05 million)
• CareFusion ($3.1 million) 
• Abbott ($2.5 million)
• General Electric Company ($2.5 million)
• UBS ($2.5 million)
• Amgen ($2 million)
• Citigroup ($2 million)
• Coca-Cola Company ($2 million)
• Kinetic Concepts, Inc. ($2 million)
• Smith & Nephew PLC ($2 million)
• GlaxoSmithKline ($1.8 million)
• Safeway Inc. ($1.7 million)
• IBM ($1.5 million)
• Crédit Agricole S.A. ($1.45 million)
• Microsoft ($1.25 million)
• Pfizer ($1.25 million)
• Becton, Dickinson and Company ($1.2 million)
• Chevron/Chevron Global Fund ($1.2 million)
• 3M Company ($1 million) 
• Alcon Laboratories ($1 million)
• Avon ($1 million)
• Bank of America ($1 million)
• Baxter International ($1 million)
• Comcast ($1 million)
• ConocoPhillips ($1 million)
• Credit Suisse Group ($1 million)
• FedEx Corporation ($1 million)
• Goldman Sachs ($1 million)
• Google ($1 million)
• Grupo Pão de Açúcar ($1 million)
• Henry Schein, Inc. ($1 million)
• Hess Corporation ($1 million)
• Hospital Corporation of America ($1 million)
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. ($1 million)
• Lowe's Companies ($1 million)
• Major League Baseball ($1 million)
• Morgan Stanley ($1 million)
• Nestle Waters North America ($1 million)
• PepsiCo Foundation ($1 million)
• Philips Healthcare ($1 million) 
• Royal Caribbean ($1 million)
• Starbucks Corporation ($1 million)
• Thrivent Financial for Lutherans ($1 million) 
• UPS ($1 million)
• Verizon/Verizon Foundation ($1 million)
• Whole Foods Market, Inc. ($1 million) 

For a complete list of corporate donors to the relief effort, visit the BCLC Web site.