Matteo Tonello is Director of Corporate Governance for The Conference Board, Inc.
The recent crisis in Japan has resulted in an outpouring of support from citizens and corporations around the world. Numerous relief programs have been established to provide conduits for distributing the money, goods and services that the people of Japan will need to survive and recover from these natural disasters.
The Conference Board has conducted a pulse survey to assess the forms and extent to which the corporate community in the United States is contributing to this effort. The survey—which supplements The Conference Board’s annual research on corporate contributions—was disseminated to U.S.-listed companies and conducted online from April 11 to April 20, 2011. Participating companies were asked to report contribution amounts committed as of the date in which the survey was filled out. Additional information on survey participants is provided below (“On the Japan Relief Pulse Survey.”)
The following are the key survey findings.
