I just found this very interesting study about corporate giving programs

[Midlodemocrat]

and support for liberal causes.

Check it out. Surprising to say the least.

http://www.capitalresearch.org/news/news.asp?ID=431&t=6

[Burma Jones]

1. Kinda skewed - published by a Right Wing Organization

It doesn't take PAC and Political Contributions into account.

and since when is the "League of Women Voters" a leftist organization?

[jilln]

2. Easy.

They encourage people to vote instead of suppressing the vote. Leftist.

[JHB]

6. League of Women Voters = A.N.S.W.E.R.??!!??

Both get a rating of 1 (radical leftist) on the CRC's "Ideological rating" (a 1 to 8 scale, 1="radical leftist", 8="free market right").

Kinda gives you a clue on its reliablity.

Their list of nonprofits:
http://www.capitalresearch.org/search/directory.asp?t=1&l=&l_l=0&l_u=1000000000

[waiting for hope]

3. Should this one be a surprise?

Exxon Mobil
Left:
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $1,000,000
Nature Conservancy $43,000
Brookings Institution $137,500

Right:
American Council on Science and Health $90,000
Acton Institute $50,000
Advancement of Sound Science Center $10,000
American Enterprise Institute $237,500
American Council for Capital Formation $255,000
American Friends of the Institute of Economic Affairs $50,000
American Legislative Exchange Council $167,000
Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy $75,000
Atlas Economic Research Foundation $75,000
Atlantic Legal Foundation $3,000
Capital Research Center $25,000
Cato Institute $15,000
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise $130,000
Competitive Enterprise Institute $270,000
Congress of Racial Equality $135,000
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow $125,000
Consumer Alert $25,000
Federalist Society $15,000
Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment $50,000
Free Enterprise Education Institute $10,000
Frontiers of Freedom Institute $250,000
George C. Marshall Institute $145,000
Heartland Institute $90,000
International Republican Institute $10,000
Landmark Legal Foundation $10,000
Media Institute $20,000
Media Research Center $50,000
Mountain States Legal Foundation $2,500
National Center for Policy Analysis $75,000
National Center for Public Policy Research $55,000
National Legal Center for the Public Interest $25,000
Pacific Legal Foundation $15,000
Pacific Research Institute $100,000
Property and Environment Research Center $15,000
Washington Legal Foundation $30,000

[Midlodemocrat]

4. That one is particularly interesting I thought.

I didn't have time to read the study, I just skimmed the list.

Interesting to say the least.

[JHB]

5. Two points that make it less than they claim:

1) Take a look at the groups they categorize as "left". Basically anyone who isn't a conservative activist group.

2) Most of what they list there are from "matching donations" (programs they have where they'll match an employee's donation from funds the company has already allotted to tax-load-reducing "charitable donations"). There's no lobbying involved.