• Northwest Dairy Association - Darigold for its great work in helping dairy farmers during the Lewis County flood.
 
• Washington State Dairy Federation for establishing a “Dairy Relief Fund” to help those producers affected by the recent floods.

• KOMO People Helper Program for its superb effort to collect food, clothing, supplies and money for flood victims in Lewis and Kitsap counties. 

• Wal-Mart for its great effort to help people during the devastating Western Washington floods, including donating $25,000 in groceries and $10,000 in toys to flood victims.

• Washington Forest Protection Association for doing its part to help victims of Western Washington’s recent, devastating floods as a leading partner in the Homeward Bound Coalition, which delivers donated manufactured homes for nine uninsured families who lost everything.

• Washington State Farm Bureau for establishing a relief fund to help farmers, ranchers and the agricultural community in Thurston, Lewis, Grays Harbor and Pacific counties, as well as other flood ¬affected areas.

• TransAlta for rising above and beyond the call of duty by donating over $400,000 in flood assistance and many employee hours in volunteer work among those most affected by the flood.

• Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce for helping its flood devastated community by sponsoring informational meetings aimed at protecting flood victims from unscrupulous contractors and ensuring they don't have to rebuild from disaster twice.

• AAA Kartak Glass & Closet for donating goods and services for local Extreme Makeover projects and to two very worthwhile community services -Vision House and Cocoon House, volunteering for a local tree planting project with one of its builders, and for its Plant a Tree program.  

• Anchor Savings Bank for springing into action to help its customers after the devastation of the recent western Washington floods by allowing customers to withdraw up to $200 cash at the drive-in window and instituting an innovative loan program for the emergency needs of both the bank’s customers and non-customers.

• Brown & Brown Insurance of Tacoma for its exemplary record of helping the less fortunate, including donating nearly $65,000 to charities, adopting a family from Tacoma Community House and providing for its employees a matching time program, which pays $10 per hour for every hour volunteered up to $250 per charity or a total of $500 per employee, and were able to add an additional $1,290 in donations.

• Burgerville for maintaining a commitment to helping the community through numerous charity organizations including the Special Olympics, the United Way and the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

• Damar Machine Company for taking a special interest in the fight against multiple sclerosis and generously donating cash plus nearly 1,000 pounds of food to the Monroe Food bank, and showing its concern for citizens in the military by forwarding boxes of thoughtful gifts for wounded veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.

• Teck Cominco American, Inc., for donating a new ambulance to the Pend Oreille County Fire District #2 and funding an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course locally in Pend Oreille County, and being a key supporter for Selkirk High School’s recently initiated Career Exploration class, which focuses on industrial arts.

• Vista Engineering Technologies, Inc., for donating over $129,000 to local community organizations and providing complimentary engineering services and encouraging employee participation in numerous local events.

• Humanix Corp. for paying its employees 20 hours per year of volunteer time spent in activities in conjunction with Spokane Valley Partners and St. Vincent de Paul, and donating volunteer hours to Freedom House.

• Greater Spokane Incorporated for working to position the region for economic expansion by partnering to establish a highly educated and technically skilled workforce and respond to employer needs through its Career Awareness Campaign, which spotlights high demand, high growth fields as identified by the Department of Labor.

• Fluor Corp. for providing top manager consultants at no cost, including a loaned executive, to United Way of Benton and Franklin Counties each campaign season in addition to sponsoring the annual Tri-Cities union stewards’ breakfast and United Way bus tours to help raise awareness. The result: Fluor raised $8,660,000 in 11 years for United Way.

• St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute for providing a unique program that mobilizes disabled athletes and change lives, one athlete at a time. Since the original 10 adult members of Team St. Luke, there are now 30 adults and 30 juniors, the majority of whom are living with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury.