{"id":618,"date":"2006-09-26T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-05-13T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:22:08","slug":"unitus-named-a-best-place-to-work-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/unitus-named-a-best-place-to-work-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Unitus Named a Best Place to Work in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Unitus Named A Best Place to Work in Seattle<\/h2>\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\">\n<p><em>Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Recognizes Unitus As One of 25 Best Places to Work in Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 26, 2006<\/strong>\u2014Redmond, WA\u2014Unitus Labs., a nonprofit organization creating innovative solutions to global poverty, was named by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine in its September 2006 issue as one of the 25 Best Places to Work in Seattle.\u00a0 Other winners include Starbucks, Microsoft, REI and Costco.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Redmond, Washington (near Seattle), with an office in Bangalore, India, Unitus dramatically accelerates the growth of microfinance institutions (MFIs)\u2014small banks for the poor\u2014and demonstrates that many MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to formal capital markets. As of September 2006 Unitus had 10 MFI partners worldwide serving more than 860,000 poor clients.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes Unitus for the quality of its work environment, including perks such as no-meeting Thursdays, flexible hours, and a doggie play area.\u00a0 In addition, the organization offers gas reimbursement and an annual $2,500 training budget for each employee.<\/p>\n<p>Said Kate Cochran, Unitus Vice President of Finance and Operations: \u201cThe people I work with are some of the greatest people I\u2019ve ever met. That makes it a lot easier to get excited about coming to work every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to see Unitus recognized in this way,\u201d said Unitus President and CEO Geoff Davis.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve always felt that Unitus should not be just another job, but rather the best place our employees have ever worked.\u00a0 With our supportive work environment and being surrounded by motivated, highly-skilled colleagues, we can focus so much more effectively on our goal of reducing poverty through microfinance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Unitus:<\/strong><br \/>Unitus, Inc. is a nonprofit organization creating innovative solutions to global poverty using a venture capital model. Unitus dramatically accelerates the growth of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and demonstrates that many MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to formal capital markets. As of September 2006, Unitus had 10 MFI partners worldwide serving more than 860,000 poor clients. Based in Redmond, WA, USA and with offices in Bangalore, India, Unitus relies on innovative financial instruments and the resources of like-minded individuals and foundations to fulfill its mission. Unitus received the 2006 Fast Company Social Capitalist Award for taking an innovative, business-minded approach to alleviating global poverty. For more information about Unitus, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unitus.com\/\">www.unitus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/tag\/awards\/\" rel=\"tag\">awards<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unitus Named A Best Place to Work in Seattle Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Recognizes Unitus As One of 25 Best Places to Work in Seattle September 26, 2006\u2014Redmond, WA\u2014Unitus Labs., a nonprofit organization creating innovative solutions to global poverty, was named by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine in its September 2006 issue as one of the 25 Best&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/updates\/unitus-named-a-best-place-to-work-in-seattle\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_aioseop_title":"","_aioseop_description":"Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Recognizes Unitus As One of 25 Best Places to Work in Seattle","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unituslabs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}