SEATTLE-The capital improvements campaign, the largest fundraising campaign ever launched by a Puget Sound area social services agency, will fund several new sites, including a new seven-story building that will feature a day shelter, an employment center, and 145 low-income housing units.

FRAMINGHAM, MA-The office supplies retailer also establishes two major facilities in the country.

AUSTIN-Rainbow Technologies, headquartered in Irvine, CA, is the newest partner in the Microsoft Technology Center, which opened earlier this month in Austin. The security systems provider is joining power players such as Dell, CyberSource and Giganet.

SAN DIEGO-A local firm, which is trying to develop a major resort project in Baja California, is a launching senior-care facilities division. The first community opens this week in Youngstown, AZ