“It’s incredibly important to our organization that we are very open about what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, what our strategy is, our finances, how we’re performing, and really promoting a mindset of radical transparency. What I’ve found is that it builds a tremendous amount of trust with our employees in the organization. It’s when they don’t know that there are issues.” Mitch Smith said to John Stearns of 425 Business.

Companies from Washington and beyond supported the state’s charities throughout 2022 as the economy cooled, inflation rose and as the long tail of Covid-19 lingered in our lives. The Business Journal’s lists of corporate philanthropists rank 75 of those companies for their contributions. The Business Journal will reveal the rankings of the 2023 Corporate Philanthropists rankings at the Corporate Citizenship event May 18 at the Sheraton Grand Seattle.