Senior Aerospace – Absolute Manufacturing of Arlington and the Marysville School District team were big winners at the United Way of Snohomish County’s Community Caring Campaign March 12.
Senior Aerospace won the President’s Award and the school district coalition won the Labor Partnership Award.
More than 500 representatives of companies, nonprofits, school districts, labor unions and government agencies in Snohomish County celebrated the close of the campaign drive.
The largest single contributions come in the form of grants from the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound ($1.86 million) and The Boeing Co. ($725,000).
United Way of Snohomish County will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2015. Josh O’Connor, the publisher of The Herald, and Larry Hanson, publisher emeritus, will co-chair United Way’s 2015 campaign.
“2014 was a deeply moving year for Snohomish County with the devastating mudslide last March and the school shooting in October,” said Dr. Dennis Smith, president and CEO of United Way of Snohomish County. “As often happens, however, these challenges brought out the best in our community: generosity and resiliency.”
Senior Aerospace – Absolute Manufacturing won the President’s Award in part for almost doubling the money they raised, tripling their corporate gift and tripling employee participation. Several of their employees live in Darrington, which made choosing to do their Days of Caring project at the Darrington Community Center an easy decision. Trina Massingale, who ran the campaign, won an Employee Campaign Manager of the Year Award.
The Labor Partnership Award went to the coalition of groups involved in the Marysville School District campaign.
They put their United Way campaign on hold after the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School but decided that one way to help the community move forward was to come together and finish the campaign.
Jerry Goodwin was the United Way’s 2014 campaign chairman and CEO of Senior Aerospace.
The money raised through this campaign supports 106 multi-year grants addressing immediate needs in priority investment areas identified by community members and long-term needs through United Way initiatives focusing on education, financial stability and English language learners.
