Our local businesses give a great deal to our community. They are a vital part of the community fabric, bringing much more than jobs and taxes. They provide relationships and leadership, events and celebrations, stability and structure. We've seen all that in Ruston with our many small shops giving to this town year after year. Now its been confirmed in a broader study of the South Sound.
This press release came across my email from Pierce County. Read on ~ then stop by some of our local shops and say hello, build that positive relationship and watch our community grow.
Much is known about how large, national corporations practice corporate social responsibility, but there is little information about how business giving relates to the regional community. A study conducted by UW Tacoma Associate Professor Jill Purdy and former UWT Associate Professor Stern Neill (currently an instructor at Cal Poly) asked local businesses how they contribute to the community, where they volunteer time, what causes they give to, and at what levels they give. The study also sought to understand the reasons that they give.
Co-sponsored by UW Tacoma's Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility in the university's Milgard School of Business and the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce, Purdy and Neill designed the study to help them understand more about how businesses give back in South Puget Sound. They gathered data from 100 companies, representing a wide range of businesses from sole proprietorships to companies with 6,000 employees and in a number of different industries.
The study showed that the average local company donated more than 100 volunteer days to the community, and that two-thirds of their giving went to causes in the local community. Purdy and Neill will present their findings Dec. 16 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Philip Hall on the UW Tacoma campus. Anyone wishing to attend is requested to RSVP to clsr@u.washington.edu or 253-692-4883.
CONTACT: Beth Luce, Public Relations and Marketing, 253-692-4881
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