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Dennis, Sara and David Bassford (left to right) have kept Moneytree in the family.
Moneytree began in Renton in 1983 as a tiny payday loans office operated, managed, staffed and cleaned entirely by three family members. With now more than 1,200 employees at 125 branches in five states, this is hardly a mom-and-pop shop anymore. It's quite impressive, then, that one of those 1,200 staffers would tell us that they "never feel like just a number." The husband, wife and brother team that still heads the company makes its employees everywhere feel like part of the family. They remember the names of tellers in far-flung branches. They greet them with not only smiles, but hugs. The company pays health benefits in full and helps with school tuition. It wins its workers' respect by not only giving generously to charities ($1 million a year), but lets them help decide whom to support and rewards good performance with prizes for the employee as well as donations to their chosen causes. If an army of payday loan officers tells us they're proud of their company's ethical practices, they must be doing something right.
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