Employer Assistance

If your employer doesn't currently offer adoption benefits, and you would like to lobby for the addition of this benefit to your employer's benefit plan, The National Adoption Center also offers a FREE "Adoption-Friendly Workplace Guide" on its website, which offers many helpful suggestions on how you might approach your employer to have this benefit added to your employee benefit plan.

Other ways:
Look at Suggestions from the National Endowment For Financial Education Visit the site: www.nefe.org for detailed information.

For excellent overall information!! go to: http://www.adoptionfinancing.com/

List of Companies that Provide Adoption Benefits

The company list below has been provided by the National Adoption Center, National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC)

**Employers who may provide financial reimbursement of $4,000 or more for their employees' adoption expenses

-A, B- AARP** ABB CE Nuclear Power** Abbott Laboratories Advanta Corporation** Advocate Health Care** Ag Processing** Aetna Inc.** Aetna Life & Casualty Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Allegiance Corporation Allstate Insurance Company American Express American Home Products Corporation American International Group** American Management Systems** American Ref-fuel Company** Ameritech Corp. Amgen, Inc. Amoco Corp. Applied Communications, Inc. Arthur Anderson LLP** Ashland, Inc. ASTRA Merck, Inc. AT&T Global Information Services Avon A. W. Restaurants, Inc.** Autodesk, Inc. Bank of America** Bank One Baptist Hospital of Miami Barnett Banks Basic American Foods Baxter Healthcare Bayfront-St. Anthony's Health Care BDM International, Inc. BE&K; Engineering and Construction Bell Atlantic** Bell South Corp. Beneficial Corp. Ben &: Jerry's Homemade, Inc. Berger Brunswig Corporation Best Foods Blue Cross &: Blue Shield of Mass. Book of the Month Club, Inc.** Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. Borden Inc.** Boston Scientific Corp.** Brentwood Services, Inc.** Bristol-Myers Squibb Builders Square** Bureau of National Affairs, The. -C, D- Calvert Group Campbell Soup Company Capitol Cities / ABC, Inc. Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital Ceridian Corporation Chase Manhattan Bank, NA The Chester County Hospital Chevron Corporation Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies CIGNA Corp. The CIT Group, Inc. Citicorp/Citibank CMP Publications Coach Leatherware Colgate-Palmolive Company Comerica Incorporated Compaq Computer Corporation ComputerWorld, Inc. Conde Nast Publications, Inc. Consolidated Rail Corp. Control Data Systems, Inc. Coopers & Lybrand Corestates Financial Corp. Corning Incorporated Cranston Print Works Crozier-Chester Medical Center Dartmouth College Date General Corporation DDB Needham Worldwide Deere & Company Deloitte & Touche Delta Dental of Pennsylvania Dillon International, Inc. Dispatch Printing Company Domino's Pizza, Inc. Donnelly Corporation Dorsey & Whitney The Dow Chemical Company The Dupont Merck Pharmaceutical Company -E, F, G- Eastman Kodak Co. Eaton Corporation Eddie Bauer EDS Elf Atochem North America, Inc. Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals Ernst & Young Fannie Mae Fel-Pro Incorporated Fidelity Investments First Chicago Corporation First Tennessee Bank First Union Corporation Flagstar Companies FMC Corporation Frankford Hospital Freddie Mac The Gallup Organization Gannett Company, Inc. General Electric Co. General Mills Genentech Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. Glen Cove School District Gorden Flesch Company GTech Corporation GTE Telephone Operations G. T. Water Productions, Inc. -H, I, J, K, L- Hallmark Cards, Inc. Hanna Anderson Harris Bank Harvard University Hasbro, Inc. The Hearst Corporation Hewett Associates Hewlett-Packard Hill, Holiday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. Hoechst Celanese Corporation Home Box Office Holt International Children's Services Home Depot Household International Hughes Aircraft Company Hunt Manufacturing Co. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) Intermetrics International Brotherhood of Teamsters International Game Technology ITT Hartford J M Family Enterprises, Inc. John Hancock John Hopkins University Johnson & Johnson Johnson International W. K. Kellogg Foundation Kemper National Insurance Companies KPMG Peat Marwick Lancaster Laboratories, Inc. Lincoln National Corp. Little Caesar's Lotus Development Corp. Louisiana Tech University

-M, N, O- Manatee Community College Marquette Electronics, Inc. Marriott International MassMutual (Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.) Mattel, Inc. MBNA America Bank, NA MCA/Universal City Studios MCR Corporation Mentor Graphics Corporation Merrill Lynch & Company The Miami Herald Microsoft, Inc. Millipore Corporation 3M (Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Monsanto Co. Morrison & Foester Motorola Mutual of New York Nabisco Foods Group National Adoption Center Nations Bank Neuville Industries, Inc. Newly Weds Foods, Inc. Newport Creamery, Inc. New York Life Insurance Company Nike, Inc. Northern Trust Corp. Northern States Power Company NYNEX Oracle Corporation Owens-Corning Fiberglass -P, Q, R- Pacific Bell Pacific Gas & Electric The Partnership Group, Inc. Patagonia, Inc. Payless Cashways, Inc. Penn Virginia Corporation Pennsylvania Crusher Corp. Pfizer, Inc. Phoenix Home Life Mutual Life Insurance Company The Pillsbury Company Pitney Bowes The PMA Group Press Telegram Price Waterhouse The Principal Financial Group Proctor & Gamble Providence Gas Company Providence Hospital Providence Journal Co. The Prudential Insurance Company of America Quad/Graphics Red Wing Shoe Company Resort Condominiums International, Inc. (RCI) Rhone-Poulec, Inc Riverside Methodist Hospital Rockwell International Roger Williams University Rohm and Hass Company RSL Ryder Systems, Inc. -S, T- The St. Paul Companies St. Petersburg Times Sara Lee Corporation SAS Institute Schering-Plough Corporation SC Johnson & Son Security Benefit Group ServiStar Corporation Shipley Company Silicon Graphics Simon & Shuster Smith College SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceutical Co. Spiegel, Inc. Sprint Southwest Airlines Stanford University Stanley Works Starbucks State Farm Insurance Co.** State of Colorado State of Montana State of New York State of North Dakota State of Pennsylvania State of South Carolina State of Utah Tandem Computers, Inc. Tenet Healthcare Corporation Texaco, Inc. Texas Instruments Tom's of Maine, Inc. Toray Plastics -U, V, W, X, Y, Z- Unisys United States Surgical Corporation United Parcel Service United Technologies University of Oklahoma University of South Carolina University of Wyoming Upjohn Company US West The Vanguard Group, Inc. The Voucher Corporation Warner-Lambert Corp. Watson Wyatt Worldwide Wendy's International, Inc. Roy F. Weston, Inc. Weyerhaeuser W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Women & Infants Hospital Work/Family Directions, Inc. Wyeth-Ayerst Xerox Corporation