Cleveland has witnessed a very philanthropic 2014, where The Cleveland Foundation has been instrumental in making the city more vibrant and its residents more charitable through its giving back outreach activities.
A slew of philanthropic efforts such as the popular Ice Bucket Challenge and Giving Tuesday has also been marked as 2014 philanthropic affairs. Indeed, Americans are more generous than ever in the past years. According to the study, "Giving USA: Annual Report on Philanthropy," Americans donated an estimated $335.17 billion to charitable causes in 2013, for a 3 percent increase over 2012.
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Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.