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Corporate Gifts Matching Corporate Gifts Matching You can instantly double your support with a matching gift from your employer! Contact your HR department to see if your company participates in a Matching Gift Program. More Ways to Make an Impact. Press Ctrl F - to search for a company. • Acxiom Corporation • Baxalta • Adams Street Partners, LLC • Baxter Employee Giving Campaign • ADP Data Processing Inc • BD • Allstate Giving Campaign • Alfred Benesch & Company • American Agricultural Insurance Com- • BMW of Schererville pany • BNSF Railway Foundation • Ameriprise Financial, Inc. • BNY Mellon • Amsted Industries Foundation • The Boeing Company • Aileen S. Andrew Foundation • BorgWarner Foundation • Aon Foundation • The Boston Consulting Group, Inc • Apple • BP Foundation, Inc. • ArcelorMittal • Breakthrough Technologies • Leo Burnett Company • Arch Capital Services, Inc • Capital Group Companies • Arch Insurance Group • The CarMax Foundation Matching Gifts • Aviva Investors Americas LLC Program • Bank of America • CDK • Gen Re • Charles Schwab Foundation • Goldman, Sachs & Co. • The Chicago Community Trust • Google, Inc. • Chicago Tribune Company • Griffith Foods • Chubb & Son • The Griffith Foods Foundation • CME Group Community Foundation • Guggenheim Partners • CNA Foundation • The Harris Family Foundation • CNA Surety • Harrison Street | Real Estate Capital • The Community Foundation of Will County • Heitman, LLC • Computer Associates • Hewlett Packard • ConAgra Foods Foundation • Home Depot Matching Gifts • ConocoPhillips • Huron Consulting Group • Costco Wholesale Corporation • ICON Venue Group • Cotter Consulting, Inc. • Illinois Tool Works Foundation • Crown Family Philanthropies • IMC Financial Markets • Crown Media Family Networks • Ingredion • CVS Caremark Rx Inc. • Intuit • Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation • Jackson National Community Fund • Digital Insurance • JBT Corporation Matching Gift Plan • Dorsey & Whitney • JLL Community Connections • Driehaus Capital Management, LLC • Johnson&Johnson • The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Foundation • Kellstrom Materials • Essendant Charitable Foundation • Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC • Exelon Corporation • Lexis Nexis Cares • Expedia Inc. • Lincoln Financial Group Foundation, Inc. • Experian • LinkedIn • FactSet Research Systems Inc. • Lumina Foundation for Education, Inc. • Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur • FinPro, Inc. Foundation • First American Bank Corporation • Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. • Fitch, Inc. • Macy’s Corporate Services, Inc. • FM Global Foundation • The Matching Gift Program of Macy’s, • Follett Corporation Inc. • The Arthur J. Gallagher Foundation • Magnetar Capital • Gartner Matching Gift Center • Markel Corporation • GE Foundation • The Marmon Group, Inc. • State Farm Insurance Companies • The McGraw-Hill Companies Foundation • McKesson Foundation • Symetra Gives – Employee Donations • McMaster-Carr Supply Company • T. Rowe Price Associates • Merck Employee Giving Campaign • Takeda Pharmaceuticals North Ameri- ca, Inc. • Meredith Corporation Foundation • The Pritizker Traubert Family Foundation • Microsoft Giving Campaign • Thomson Reuters • Midland National • TransMarket Operations LLC • Minerals Technologies Inc. • The Travelers Foundation • Mondelez International Foundation • TTX Company • Motorola Solutions Foundation • U.S. Bank • Northern Trust • U.S. Cellular • Nuveen Investments, LLC • UBS Matching Gift Program • Peoples Energy Corporation • Union Tank Car Company • PepsiCo • UnitedHealth Group • The Pfizer Foundation • Varian Charitable Match Trust • Piper Jaffray Foundation • Verizon Foundation • PNC Bank • Virtus Investment Partners • Prudential Financial Inc • W.W. Grainger, Inc. • Razorfish • The Wachovia Foundation • Salesforce.org • The Warranty Group • Sandisk Corporation /Matching Gift Program • William Blair • Schneider Electric/Square D • William Harris Investors, Inc. Foundation • Willis Tower Watson • Shure Incorporated • Wonderful Giving • The Spencer Foundation • The Zurich N. A. Foundation www.actforchildren.org.
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