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The 2015 Community Impact Awards: Green Products/Services
WINNER Itron Inc.Liberty Lake Itron helps customers save scarce resources by offering a product that helps them identify and fix leaks in water pipes or reduce unnecessary use of gas and electricity. Itron also implements green procedures at its own manufacturing facilities, where the firm has been able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by almost…
The 2015 Community Impact Awards: Sustainability in Business Operations
WINNER Canyon Creek Cabinet CompanyMonroeCanyon Creek Cabinet Company is fastidious in making sure its products and processes are environmentally friendly. Products meet the tough California standards on formaldehyde emissions and help multifamily projects, such as the Ballard Public Lofts & Market, meet LEED standards for environmentally friendly construction. Canyon Creek CEO Bill Weaver was president…
The 2015 Community Impact Awards: Nonprofit of the Year
WINNER ArtsFundSeattle Since 1969, ArtsFund has supported the Puget Sound regions arts ecosystem by providing more than $73 million in grants. Local arts groups can use the money as a reliable source of vital, unrestricted operating funds. ArtsFunds support has been vital to the Puget Sound regions arts and cultural sector, fostering arts experiences that…
The 2015 Community Impact Awards: Business of the Year | Small Firms
WINNER Pacific Continental BankSeattle Pacific Continental Bank specializes in nonprofits, a category of client that few banks pursue, even though nonprofits have a big impact on their communities. They [nonprofits] are actually pretty heavy depositors, says VP/Marketing Director Amy Delaney, so we can turn around and lend to other industries that are more credit heavy,…
The 2015 Community Impact Awards: Business of the Year | Midsize Firms
WINNER Seattle Sounders FCSeattle Since ending joint business operations with the Seattle Seahawks, the Seattle Sounders soccer team has launched some innovative new community outreach efforts. While it has always donated money to community organizations, in June, Sounders FC held a Pride Match to support Seattles LGBT community and brought in as a speaker NBA…
The 2015 Community Impact Awards: Business of the Year | Large Firms
WINNER Holland America LineSeattle The Seattle cruise ship company Holland America Line is a strong supporter of nonprofit fundraisers. The company donates approximately 650 free and reduced-fare cruises to fundraisers annually and hosts more than two dozen charitable luncheons for thousands of attendees in its homeport cities, including Seattle, where proceeds went to the Seattle…
The 2015 Community Impact Awards
This years honorees in Seattle Business magazines Community Impact Awards program understand that giving gives back. Large or small, for-profit or nonprofit, all are committed to making their communities better places for their employees and their business operations. Their contributions range from helping the homeless to teaching life lessons to reducing hazardous waste. The relationship…
Seattle startup Spare5 raises $10 million in funding.
Amazons Mechanical Turk was the first service to allow businesses to connect with hundreds of thousands of anonymous workers around the world and have them handle small tasks for small sums of money. Now, Spare5 has improved on that model by offering screened experts to perform micro-tasks over a mobile device for micro-payments. Spare5, which…
Attack, don’t chase: soccer offers a lesson on how to acquire and retain the best talent.
Attorney, Paradigm Counsel National Soccer Hall of Famer Kyle Rote, Jr., once said, If youre attacking, you dont get as tired as when youre chasing. That advice for success on the soccer field also applies to winning at talent acquisition and retention in Seattles red hot tech market. Whether you run an app development start-up…
Compensation growth in Seattle area largest in the nation.
The rapid increase in labor costs in the region could lower the impact of rising minimum wages by helping to reduce the gap between wages in Seattle and those in the rest of the region. Here’s the press release from the bureau of labor statistics with the June numbers: New BLS Data: Seattle area employee…
Compensation growth in Seattle area largest in the nation.
New BLS Data: Seattle area employee compensation costs up 4.3% over the year The latest BLS News Release showing total compensation costs for private industry workers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia metropolitan area is now available online at https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/employmentcostindex_seattle.htm. This release covers data from the Employment Cost Index, a quarterly survey which measures changes in labor costs…
Spotlight: Getting Engaged
David Barach and Earl Bridges turned the model for charitable giving on its head when they founded their corporate social responsibility service, Good Done Great, in Tacoma seven years ago. The city is home to the University of WashingtonTacomas Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility, one of few such centers in the United States, as…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2015: Special Recognition
Special Recognition Award for Teamwork & Collaboration: Sequoyah ElectricSequoyah Electric provides electrical contracting and network services in Washington and five other states. The firms portfolio includes health care facilities, data centers, commercial office buildings and everything in between. Sequoyah has made a name for itself by providing innovative customer solutions on every jobsite. But where…