Business Contributions to Haiti Relief Efforts Pass $122 Million
January 16, 2010
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.
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