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Matching Funds: Taco Bell asked its corporate office employees to put their money where their mouths are--and then did in kind.

The Irvine company pressed employees at its Irvine headquarters to surpass the $55,000 in donations made to the 1992-93 United Way campaign. Employees responded by pledging $68,000. So the corporation has donated 13 grants of $1,000 each to United Way-funded agencies for the 1993-94 campaign.

Groups targeted by Taco Bell were: Mental Health Assn. of Orange County; FISH-Harbor Area; Dayle Macintosh Center; American Cancer Society; Community Services Program--Youth Shelter; National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Alzheimer’s Assn. of Orange County; the Blind Children’s Learning Center; Boys & Girls Clubs of South Coast Area; Orange YMCA; Women’s Transitional Living Center; 1736 Family Crisis Center and the Olive Crest Treatment Center for Abused Children.