Matching Gift Newsletter for March 19, 2012

This is a newsletter providing information companies whose information has already been updated in the GiftPlus On-Line Database.

You will only be able to see all the companies if you subscribe to GiftPlus On-Line. If you search through your eMatch Donor Link, only those that match to your designated 501c3 non-profit will appear.

New Parent Companies Added to the Database since January 5, 2012

United States

The Glosten Associates Design Alaska, Inc. MetLife Volunteer Ventures Total Medical Personnel Staffing Outten & Golden LLP South Central Connecticut Regional Water Sephora Authority PKS&R Express, inc. The Retirement Research Foundation CouponCabin Harley Davidson Volunteer Program Temptime MetLife Volunteer Project Fund Gannett Welsh & Kotler HP Volunteer Match Security Mutual Life Co of New Haas, Inc. York Homrich Berg Cortechs Yormick & Associates Co., LPA General Dynamics NASSCO Arizona Air-Scent Inc. Specialized Bicycle Components ServiceNow Blue Streak Couriers Nestle ND Karetas William Ludwig Berater White Mountains Ins group Novelis Inc First Person Benefit Advisors Ford & Harrison LLP Ipswitch TOYOTA Info Technology Center DKaretas Timex Group Dearborn Mid-West Conveyor Co Itron Traffic Control Specialists, Inc. AMB Group, LLC Professional Billing Blue Coat Systems Practical Law Company Creative Channel Services Advanced Instructional Systems LinkedIn Mitchell International Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation AZCO Inc Simpson Manufacturing Amerigroup

Canada

Anixter Brookfield Partners Foundation

The following information is intended to give you information on important information on programs that have been suspended, changed or clarification of information on a program:

AmeriGroup reinstated their program.

Avery Dennison Corporation suspended their program per Janet Sandoval, [email protected]

Unitrin is now .

Fruit of the Loom and Russell Brands: Per Lisa Graham, Benefits Specialist, they do not offer a matching gifts program.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP : discontinued their matching gift program worldwide per James Leary, Washington DC office.

Appleton has a matching gift program but it is suspended for 2012 per Donna Kolb, [email protected]

East Bay Community Foundation: We actually do not have a matching grants program. I think the institution that received a matching grant was from one of our donor advised funds that does have such a program and we no longer administer that per Ann Beier, 510-836-3223

Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotia): They asked to be removed from the database because they are strictly volunteering. We will add them back to the database when we roll out a separate volunteer database in the near future.

Janet Slasor | Scotiabank | Phone: 416.866.4293 | Fax: 416.866.5705 [email protected]

Nokia-Siemens : Program suspended for 2012 per Don Kelly. Don Kelley Regional Category Manager Indirect Purchasing - NAM Nokia Siemens Networks US LLC Cell: 817-308-8711

FX-Concepts : program suspended for 2012 per Tony Sacco, tsacco@fx- concepts.com

CNA Surety : No longer has its own matching gift program due to the merger of CNA Surety and CNA Financial. All matching gifts are now handled through the CNA Foundation. Jodi Gordon, CNA Surety.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers : They only match to a select list of universities and colleges and the list changes every year.

Devon Energy : Ratio increased to 1.5:1 and maximum increased to $10,000 per Lori Parr.

Northrop Grumman : Employees can now request up to four (4) matches (under $1000 in total) in any calendar year. Deadline is November 15 for same year gift. No hard copy acknowledgements of gifts are needed.

Per Wikipedia: Fortune Brands was a holding company founded in 1969 as American Brands and later renamed in 1997 and split apart in 2011. The corporate headquarters was in Deerfield, in the . The company historically had a significant diversity of product offerings. It announced on December 8, 2010, that it planned to focus on its liquor business, and to spin off or sell other parts of the company — including home furnishings and hardware and other products. [1][2] The company then sold its Titleist and FootJoy product lines to Korea . On October 3, 2011, it split the remainder of its business into two publicly-traded companies: Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE : FBHS )[3] and Beam Inc. (NYSE : BEAM ). On the database, Fortune Brands ID 42000 is now being used by Beam, Inc. It is currently unknown as to whether Fortune Brands Home & Security has a program.

Westmoreland Coal suspended their program in 2008.

National SemiConductor purchased by Texas Instruments. Program discontinued as of December 31, 2011. https://www.easymatch.com/nsc/

Per Wikipedia: National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly headquartered in Santa Clara , California , USA . The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers , communication interface products and data conversion solutions. National's key markets included wireless handsets, displays and a variety of broad electronics markets, including medical, automotive, industrial, and test and measurement applications.

On September 23rd, 2011, the company formally became part of Texas Instruments as the "Silicon Valley" division.

Benetemps : We currently do not have a matching gifts program per Beth Kilcup.