Target

George D. Dayton, founder of Dayton Hudson Corporation, creates the Dayton Foundation in 1918 with an endowment of $1 million—a lavish amount at the time. In 1946, the company establishes corporate bylaws ensuring that 5% of its pretax profits go to the community—far higher than the national corporate average of 1%.The Take Charge of Education® program exceeds the $200 million mark, the SuperTarget® partnership with America’s Second Harvest provides 1.3 million pounds of unsold groceries to people in need, and Target volunteers donate more than 170,000 hours to more than 6,500 community-based projects. In pure dollars, Target is now giving more than $3 million a week to the communities it serves.