Companies donation program focuses on 1 recipient per year - billingsgazette.com

Companies donation program focuses on 1 recipient per year - billingsgazette.com: "Companies donation program focuses on 1 recipient per year

By DAVE BURGESS
Western Business News

RBC Dain Rauscher is among the largest full-service securities firms in America. Its financial consultants work with investors and small businesses across the country, though predominantly in the West. They also invest their own time and money in the communities they live in.

Companywide, donations add up to millions. According to a company publication, in 2004 RBC Dain Rauscher gave more than $3.5 million to nonprofit organizations across the country, 70 percent of Dain Rauscher employees volunteer in their communities, and the RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation matched 1,125 employee gifts totaling nearly $425,000.

On a local level, however, charitable efforts within any company can be spotty - a little given here and a little there. But contrary to the common situation, the Billings office of RBC Dain Rauscher has developed an orderly system it calls Charity of Choice."