business backgrounder | education & workforce
“Boeing employees are generous with their time,
volunteering with valued non-profit partners.
Serving at WBW provides experiential leadership
development opportunities for employees to get a
feel for what it’s like to be in a formal leadership
role as well as to help support the mission
of WBW.”
experience to lend a hand. It’s a simple half-day
commitment on a Friday, Abplanalp said.
Adults can also volunteer as advisors for
in-school programs held throughout the year to
help cultivate leaders in their own backyard.
There are many ways employers can support
Washington Business Week, Abplanalp said —
but whatever donations a business makes, the
benefit to its employees who volunteer will be
much greater.
— James Garnett, program manager, business employee development,
“If you want to make a difference, you can
for The Boeing Company, and chair of the board for Washington
start sponsoring one student, work up to a
Business Week
company or send a company advisor,” Abplanalp
said. “If you’re a business
owner and can’t come, send
your employees. They’ll come
help support washington business week at annual breakfast
back definitely inspired and
The third-annual “Takin’ Care of Business” benefit breakfast for Washington Business Week
energized.”
will be held Sept. 30 at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle.
Washington Business Week
www.wbw.org
Learn more and register at www.wbw.org or 253.815.6900.
AWB CompWise Workers’ Comp
Retrospective Rating Program
If you care about having a safe workplace and saving your company
money, this program is for you!
Enroll in the AWB CompWise Program and start receiving refunds
on your workers’ compensation premiums.
Group refunds average
more than 20 percent, with some firms
ave
receiving refunds as high as 35 percent due to our merit-based
refund formula.
For your free, no-obligation summary, please call 866-666-8818
or visit www.awb.org/workers-compensation for more details
or to submit an online information request.
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