The Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber is very grateful to have our wonderful ambassador team. These Chamber ambassadors are an extension of the Chamber staff, allowing our members to have more points of contact. We want to highlight each ambassador as a 'thank you' for their continued support and dedication that they put into the ambassador team.

Connect with Bob

If you are wanting to meet Bob or seek his wisdom about the legal system, you can reach him at his email address, which perfectly captures his boating lifestyle: [email protected]. ​

Learn More About the Ambassador Program

​Interested in learning more about what it takes to be a Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber ambassador? Learn more here.

Chamber Membership has its perks! Advertising on the Chamber’s website and in our weekly e-newsletter is limited to active Chamber Members.

“Invest in your community and your community will invest in you."

This motto is what owner, Kieth Dashofy, of Pella Windows & Doors follows every day. A Tacoma native, Dashofy knew he wanted to expand Pella into the Grit City when faced with the incredible choice of expansion. With a showroom in Bothell, which serves Seattle, Bellevue-Eastside, Sammamish, Everett, and Mount Vernon, the Pella team was ecstatic to travel South into Pierce County to offer their services.

As the full name implies, Pella is a windows and doors installation company. The Chamber was excited to celebrate the opening of the new Tacoma Showroom on May 16th! The new showroom has an array of door styles, window frame selections, and even a stocked mini fridge of the teams’ favorite beverages.

Keith was beaming with pride during his ceremony speech and expressed his gratitude for having an excellent team behind him. He is looking forward to connecting with his fellow Chamber members, so be sure to seek him out at future Chamber events to exchange business cards.

Whether you need new windows, doors, or want to make new Pierce County connections, you should take a trip to the new showroom to say 'hi' to the Pella team and wander through their product offerings. You will find yourself entertaining the thought of remodeling the kitchen windows that you’ve been putting off for years!

Website: https://www.pella.com/locations/wa/tacoma
Phone: (253) 563-3339

May’s Chamber After Hours was hosted at the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber office. We look forward to welcoming our members and partners to our office each year for an After Hours event to network, see where we work, and learn more about the Chamber and programs we offer!

Attendees enjoyed charcuterie style bites, music playing from the Chamber’s playlist, and a slideshow featuring photos from our events over the years. At each desk, there was a one-sheet bio highlighting each staff member - a fun way to introduce ourselves to our guests and put faces to names! These bios listed their role at the Chamber and what that entails, along with a summary of their life outside of work.

Later on in the evening, Andrea Reay, President and CEO of the Chamber, as well as Jon Rossman, owner of Chuckals Office Products and Chairman of the Chamber’s Board of Directors, thanked everyone that took time out of their night to join us at Chamber After Hours. The winners of the giveaways were also announced, and two lucky attendees won a gift basket graciously gifted by Chick-Fil-A, and tickets to a Rainiers baseball game. Overall, the night was spent in great company, with great food, conversations, and connections! 

June 2024 Chamber After Hours

If you were unable to attend this month’s Chamber After Hours, join us at the next event on Thursday, June 13, at Chambers Bay Golf Course. This is a special After Hours because we are partnering with the City of University Place/Partner UP to carry out this networking event to bring together business owners in University Place! Attendees will enjoy the beautiful views of the Chamber's Bay Golf Course while snacking on delicious food, sipping refreshments, and mixing with the amazing company. ​

In April, we welcomed new and current members to our office for a New Member Mixer!
 
This event provided attendees a chance to learn about the benefits of a Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber membership in an Open House style format. Activities included learning more about Chamber programs and partnerships, such as Spaceworks Tacoma, World Trade Center Tacoma, and Downtown Tacoma Partnership.
 
Members mingled with Chamber staff, ambassadors, and fellow members over drinks and catering. It was a wonderful evening connecting with members and building relationships!
 
Our next New Member Mixer will be in September (9/24/24) and registration is now open. We hope you’ll join us to meet new members and celebrate our growing business community!

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!

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!

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.
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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!