Author: Business Committee for the Arts

Publication Year: 1970

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Sources for this report prepared by the Busines Committee for the Arts include the Conference Board, which conducted a survey to determine the state of general business philanthropy, and Touche Ross and Company, whose study of corporate support of the arts was undertaken for the Business Committee for the Arts.

Abstract:

Prepared by the Business Committee for the Arts, this report is a series of graphs with figures for:

1. the average annual percentage of pre-tax income contributed by corporations in the U.S. for all purposes from 1936 through 1970;
2. contributions divided by sectors such as culture for 1965, 1968 and 1970; and 
3. contributions to the arts for 1965, 1968 and 1970.

Sources include the Conference Board, which conducted a survey to determine the state of general business philanthropy, and Touche Ross and Company, whose study of corporate support of the arts was undertaken for the Business Committee for the Arts. (Adapted from the introduction.)

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Categories: Private Sector