Us Chamber of Commerce & American Cancer Society
Autor: Mikki • December 5, 2017 • 655 Words (3 Pages) • 794 Views
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the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), the Institute for Organization Management (IOM), the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC), the Institute for 21st Century Energy, and others.
According to Donahue, organizations created internally will most likely lead to support and donations of large corporations that believe in these types of personalized internal organizations. Impressively, a quarter of the Fortune’s 1,000 companies were members before Donahue took over the helm and today almost every Fortune 1,000 company is a member of the chamber of commerce. Some of the chamber of commerce most loyal members are oil, drug, and tobacco companies because popular causes are lobbied and advocated by the organization without specifically linking it back to the three loyal members. Since the chamber of commerce is listed as a trade organization, it does have to list donations above $5,000 but it does not have to conceal the name of the donator, which gives companies or individuals privacy. However, there are also companies that disagree with the chamber of commerce’s stance. The organization supported the Stop Online Piracy Act, which giant Internet firms opposed, and the smaller fraction of media groups supported. Additionally, the organization is heavily against climate change and as a result companies such as Nike, PG&E, Exelon, and Apple have decided to discontinue their memberships. The chamber of commerce opposed the Waxman-Market Climate Bill in 2009 citing “mainstream, common sense views”. Furthermore, two democrats sponsored the bill and it aims to create energy jobs, increase America’s energy independence, cut global warming pollution, and save energy costs.
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