321 Buddy Fundraising celebrated the grand opening of their resource facility - ’A Place for Me’ - to a crowd full of smiles, love, laughter, and even some happy tears on the 14th of May. This resource facility is a home away from home for families in the Down Syndrome community. With colorful meeting rooms, toys galore for all age groups, and even a spot for teens to hangout, the building certainly makes you feel happy to be there. While the fun toys and murals are amazing, what is even more amazing is the reason behind the establishment. It is meant for relationship building, a safe space for families to gather, and for group activities to take place. Executive Director, Alisha Viela, highlighted some of the incredible work that 321 Buddy Fundraising has done, including their annual Pierce County Buddy Walk. This year’s walk will take place on October 5th, at Franklin-Pierce High School from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM. Throw on your walking shoes and flower crowns because this year’s theme is peace, love, and inclusion and it is giving all the 60’s vibes! This walk is to make a vision reality: a world where individuals with Down Syndrome are empowered with access to vital resources for education, programs nurturing their potential, and a supportive community advocating for their rights. You can learn more about 321 Buddy Fundraising, and the work they are doing every day on their website! Website: https://charity.pledgeit.org/321Buddy Phone: (206) 353-9931 Tacoma welcomed a new business to its city on May 14th, Vera Whole Health! This advanced primary care facility is meant to really put the patient first, and leave them feeling heard, supported, and confident in the care they received. While being the only primary care provider to have received two validations, for population health cost management and for health outcomes, Vera Whole Health is truly one of a kind. At the ceremony, the morning started with networking over coffee and a delicious breakfast spread, followed by the main event, the cutting of the ribbon. With words given by Andrea Reay, President & CEO of the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber; Tacoma’s Deputy Mayor John Hines; Don Trigg, CEO for Vera Whole Health; and Kevin Wang, the Chief Medical Officer for Vera Whole Health, the ribbon was cut in front of an excited audience. Guests were toured through the deceptively large office, which has multiple care rooms, private meeting/consult rooms, a full-service prescription medicine dispensary, virtual care rooms, and more. The care team at Vera Whole Health are eager to accept new patients here in Tacoma. They meet each day before their shift begins to review the plan of attack and every detail for their patients’ visits. If you are looking for a new primary care team that strives to provide great customer service and care at a great price, be sure to contact Vera Whole Health in Tacoma! Website: https://www.verawholehealth.com Vera Whole Health Tacoma - Phone: (253) 999-5501 Do you know all the different tools available to you in your Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber member portal? From sharing exclusive member-to-member deals to promoting company events, there are several ways you can take advantage of these marketing tools as a Chamber member!
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Spaceworks Alum and Chamber member, HIVE Co., celebrated their grand opening in April at 5436 S Tacoma Way, Tacoma, WA 9840. HIVE Co. is small maker, small batch vibes “gift” shop. Founder, Michele Jones, created a place where vendors, artists, and makers can sell wholesale, lead workshops in the specially designed gathering space or participate in a vendor pop-up market. Be sure to check out what’s going on via the event calendar available on their website. Congratulations to Jones on this achievement and be sure to visit HIVE Co. to peruse all their goodies! Photo credit: Roses and Pine Photography
On May 3, 2024, the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber, Communities for a Healthy Bay, and Port of Tacoma partnered to launch a new annual award program designed to recognize local Pierce County business that demonstrate an extraordinary commitment to environmental excellence and sustainability in our region. Congratulations to the following winners: Environmental Excellence Business Innovation Award Winner: Aquagga Aquagga is a cleantech startup firmly headquartered in Tacoma, developing portable, containerized systems that safely and cleanly destroy PFAS "forever chemicals" with zero emissions or toxic byproducts. Aquagga is currently engaged with projects sponsored by the DoD to bring their "HALT" PFAS destruction technology to market and are one of the world's leading PFAS destruction companies. Aquagga just completed their second commercial-scale PFAS destruction demonstration project. Aquagga is working with the City of Tacoma and the University of Washington Tacoma on a PFAS removal and destruction demonstration project at the City's wastewater treatment plant, a first-of its-kind. Environmental Excellence Business Award Winner: Radius Recycling Radius Recycling operates 54 metals recycling facilities, including 7 shredding operations, and 3 with deep water access on the West Coast. They also own 50 auto dismantling and retails stores, and a state-of-the-art electric arc steel mill that produces finished steel products made from recycled ferrous metals. In Tacoma, Radius Recycling has recycled 592,303 tons of ferrous metals and 28,245 tons of non-ferrous metals in the last year. This supports new infrastructure projects and low-carbon, metal-intensive technologies such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles. In January of 2023, Radius was ranked #1 on Corporate Knights’ 100 Most Sustainable Companies and Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies. Radius Recycling is also a proud contributor in Tacoma Public Utilities Evergreen Options Program Radius is committed to a future with less waste, turning old into new, and supplying the essential materials for critical industries to foster more resilient communities. Honorable Mention: LRI: A Subsidiary of Waste Connections LRI owns and/or operates seven waste disposal facilities in Pierce County. The LRI Landfill collects over 5,000 Standard Cubic Feet per Minute of landfill gas. Gas is piped to a Landfill Gas to Energy Facility that creates enough power for 4,000 homes. The Hidden Valley and Purdy Compost Facilities receive nearly 100,000 tons of yard waste from throughout Pierce County per year. It is transformed into certified organic compost! Welcome to all the new members who joined our business community in April 2024:
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