Did you know that your employer probably has some sort of gift matching program? Some major employers offer to match a gift you make to an educational program or school. Ask your Human Resource office for more details on your employer’s programs. Here is a list of employers that offer matching gift programs:

3Com Corporation
3M Company
7-Eleven
ABC Broadcasting
AES Corporation
AMD
ARCO
Abbott Laboratories
Acxion/Direct Media
Adobe Systems, Inc.
Aetna, Inc.
American Airlines
American Express
American International Group
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch
Applied Materials
Athens Group
Austin Ventures
Avon Products
Bank of America
Black & Decker
Budget Rent-a-Car
Burger King
CBS
Charles Schwab
Chevron
Chubb Corporation
Chubb & Son
CitiFinancial Group
Cisco
Clorox Co.
Collins Foods
Compaq Computer Corporation
Computer Associates International
Conoco-Phillips
Copley Press Inc
Crate and Barrel
Cray Research
DFS (Dell Financial Services)
Dell
Emerson Process
Equitable Insurance
Ericsson, Inc.
Exxon
FBD Consulting
Fannie Mae/ Fannie Mae Foundation
Farmers Bank
Federated Department Stores
Fidelity Investments
Fingerhut Corp.
First Data Corp.
First Quadrant
Fortis
Freeport-McMoran
Frito Lay
Gap Foundation
Gannett Foundation, Inc.
GEICO Corp.
General Electric
General RE
Gillette
GlaxoWellcome
GlaxoSmithKline
Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody
Green Tree Financial
Guidant
Harort General Inc.
Hewlett-Packard
Home Depot
Honeywell Inc
Heublein, Inc.
Hughes Aircraft Co.
Hughes Tool Co.
IBM
ITT
Intel Corporation
J.C. Penney Co.
JPMorganChase
John Hancock Life Insurance
Johnson & Johnson
Joseph E. Seagram & Sons
K-Mart Corp.
Kemper National Insurance
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Lennox
Levi Strauss
McGraw-Hill
McDonald’s Corp.
Merrill Lynch
Monsanto Inc.
Motorola Inc.
National Instruments
Neiman Marcus
Nike
Nintendo
Nissan North America
NCR Corp.
Pepsico Inc.
Pfizer
Pillsbury Co.
Phillip Morris co.
Pitney Bowes, Inc.
Pizza Hut
Poloroid Corp.
Prudential Insurance Co.
RJR Nabisco
Radio Shack
Raytheon Co.
Readers Digest
Regions Bank
Rockwell International
SAS
Safe Way Rental Equipment
Samsung
Scott Paper
Seton Healthcare Network
Shaklee Corp.
Shell
Southland Corp.
Standard Oil
State Farm Insurance
State Farm Foundation
Subaru of America
TRW
Taco Bell
Tandy Corp.
Teledyne, Inc.
Temple-Inland Fondation
Temple-Inland Mortgage Corp.
Texaco
Texas Instruments
Texas National Bank
Times Mirror
Transamerica
Trilogy Employee Foundation
Tyco Siplexgrinnell
U.S. Borax
Unocal Corp.
Van de Kamp
Verizon
Vivendi Universal
WaldenBooks
Washington Mutual
Wells Fargo
Xerox