In Seattle

Featured Employer:
Wireless Advocates
Wireless Advocates, LLC. is growing like mad! Our mission is to double the stores by 2012, to add a total of over 1000 stores!

Wireless Advocates is the exclusive third-party provider of wireless phones and services throughout Costco Wholesale warehouses nationwide dedicated to providing the best retail experience with wireless expertise you can expect!

With a commitment to manage and operate retail wireless kiosks inside Costco's warehouse locations, our premier team of sales professionals offers unique wireless values to Costco Members not available in any other wholesale environment. We specialize in selling high-quality phones and service agreements from major wireless carriers including Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless.

Founded in 2004 in Seattle, WA, Wireless Advocates is a privately held company that was spun off from Car Toys, Inc. We strive every day to exceed the expectations of not only our customers, but of our associates, shareholders, and business partners to ensure that we remain the Best In Class Wireless Retailer today, tomorrow, and years to come.

On the Eastside

Featured Employer: King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
The mission of KCSARC is to give voice to victims, their families and the community; create change in beliefs, attitudes and behaviors about violence and instill courage for people to speak out about sexual assault.

Our purpose is to alleviate, as much as possible, the trauma of sexual assault for victims and their families. As an agency, we ultimately want to eliminate sexual assault, and to ensure the freedom to live without fear. It is a rewarding experience to bring individuals from the pain into the healing.

King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) is committed to the elimination of sexual assault. This mission has driven the work of the agency since its founding in 1976. KCSARC has grown to be the largest sexual assault victim's service organization in Washington. Responsible for creating nationally-recognized prevention education and therapeutic programs, KCSARC's work has been replicated around the country.

In 2002, KCSARC was named by Washington CEO magazine as the "Best Place to Work" in the non-profit category. We were also given the "Business Excellence Award" by the Renton Chamber of Commerce & the "Business Innovation Award" by the Kent Chamber of Commerce. Lindsay Palmer, KCSARC's Director of Education, was named "2002 Citizen of the Year" by the Municipal League of King County.

We are proud of our achievements and the enormous changes that we have seen over the past 30 years. And we are looking forward to the future and the elimination of sexual assault in our community.

In the South Sound

Featured Employer: Weyerhaeuser
Roberta has been with Weyerhaeuser for 20 years starting as a temporary secretary and then to Team Leader and then to Staffing. For the past 12 years at Weyerhaeuser she has been in the staffing area.

Weyerhaeuser Company is an international forest products company with annual sales of $22.6 billion. Our company was founded in 1900 and currently employs about 54,000 people in 18 countries and has ranked in the Fortune 200 since 1956.

Today, Weyerhaeuser is an innovator-both in the management of our forestry holdings and in the development of new ways to utilize this renewable resource. Our company leader and all employees are guided by our vision and values.

Weyerhaeuser releases the potential in trees to solve important problems for people and the planet. The need for imaginative, sustainable solutions to the world's challenges has never been greater. We are uniquely qualified to meet these needs and those of our customers in ways that create ongoing prosperity.

Throughout the past year, Weyerhaeuser has been changing lives and renewing communities through Project Habitat, a $1 million pledge to build 32 homes. Our employee's partner with local customers and suppliers to help complete Habitat homes across the U.S. and Canada. The Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation endeavors to improve the quality of life in the communities in which Weyerhaeuser has a presence and increase understanding of the importance and sustainability of forests and the products they provide that meet people's needs.

Since 1948, the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation has donated more than $192 million to the communities where Weyerhaeuser employees work, live and play. Foundation giving priorities include community and industry-related grants, scholarships for employees' children, matching gift program for education and an employee volunteer program.