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AWB Community Service Awards Honor 14 Companies |
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Written On: May 23, 2007 |
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Written By: Richard Davis |
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SPOKANE The Association of Washington Business honored 14 Washington companies during its spring board meeting in Spokane on Tuesday. The awards recognize contributions made by companies to their local communities.
This years AWB Community Service Award winners are:
Greater Spokane Incorporated, for its support of educational opportunities for children in the Spokane region.
EMBARQ, for providing all public and private school third-graders in the Columbia Gorge area with their own personal dictionaries.
CH2M HILL Hanford, for donating more than $4 million in unrestricted contributions to Columbia Basin Community College and Washington State University, Tri-Cities, and for supporting numerous other charitable causes.
Qwest, for supporting education and encouraging its employees to volunteer in the schools.
St. Thomas More School, for its strong record of community service in the Spokane area, and the impressive involvement of its students in volunteerism.
Argosy Cruises, for donating more than $250,000 for charitable causes and encouraging its employees to be active participants in a variety of charitable organizations.
Brown & Brown Insurance of Tacoma, for raising nearly $40,000 for community services, and for its volunteer work with the Salvation Army.
Rushforth Construction, for chairing the Tacoma Heart Walk, which raised $400,000 for the American Heart Association.
Burgerville, USA, for raising more than $58,000 for the United Way of Clark County and $318,000 for the American Diabetes Association.
Energy Northwest, whose employees raised more than $133,000 for the United Way and worked as volunteers with other charitable organizations.
Safeway, Seattle division, for donating $31.4 million to charitable causes throughout Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana.
Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce, for its Family Friendly Employer Partnership Initiative, which provides employment for military spouses and family members.
Opp & Seibold Construction Company, for contributing money, manpower, and skill to a wide variety of community projects.
Deloitte, for its Impact Day program, in which the firm organizes numerous community events and encourages volunteerism among its employees.
"These companies realize the importance of being good neighbors in their communities," said AWB President Don Brunell. "All of them have invested substantial time, money and other resources to improve their corner of the state."
AWB also honored Edmund O. Schweitzer III with the Bruce Briggs Award. The philanthropist, engineer and founder of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. of Pullman received the award for efforts on behalf of his community.
In addition, Dr. ChangMook Sohn, executive director of the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council, received the C. David Gordon Award, AWBs highest award for outstanding civic achievement.
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