Gore would have government encourage them to save a little each year by adding matching funds, similar to the corporate match of 401(k) plans.
The foundation also received funds from corporate matching gift programs.
After two down years, the value of American corporate match-making is flat in 2010.
This year, they gave $1,000 and a corporate matching gift form, which brought their donation to $2,000.
In fact, people may now need to save even more in their 401(k) to offset the missing corporate match.
With a combination of employee donations and corporate matching funds, Hunter Douglas gave $275,000 to the Hurricane Sandy relief campaign of the Neediest Cases Fund.
The figure, $164 million, was the amount of corporate matching funds given to 789 insitutions of higher education surveyed by the Council for Aid to Education, a separate group.
For instance, during the recession, about one-fifth of the businesses polled had reduced or eliminated their corporate matching contribution to nonqualified plans, just as they did with their 401 k)'s.
On a flight to Allentown, Pa., he said he should be given credit not just for direct donations but also for corporate matching grants and speaking without charge to nonprofit groups.
While about 30percentt of the $600 million budget at I.B.M. Research is a basic corporate grant to support long-range work like Dr. Eigler's, the remainder comes directly from other units within the company or from corporate matching grants linked to those units' investments.
