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Affinity4 is pleased to offer more ways for you to give back to your favorite charity or ministry. Local phone service and long distance phone service allow you to keep your existing phone line and to make a difference in the world.

Affinity4’s local phone service is powered by PowerNet Global, one of the country’s fastest growing telecommunications companies. With prices starting as low as $16.99 per month, Affinity4’s local phone service beats the competition.  Choose from calling features and plans that will fit into any budget, including unlimited long distance, call waiting, caller ID, and many others.

Affinity4 is now offering several new long distance service rate plans. When you sign up for Affinity4’s long distance phone service, you turn the ordinary activity of calling your friends and family into extraordinary giving. The company’s new long distance plans include a competitive rate of 4.9¢ per minute with a low monthly service fee of $3.95. This plan offers one rate for all of your state-to-state and in-state calls.*

As always, our goal is to help you to give to your favorite ministries and charities. By ordering Affinity4’s local or long distance phone service, we will give 10% of the proceeds to your ministry or charity of choice every month. Because of customers like you, we’ve been able to raise over $76 million for ministries and charities across the country.

*Some restrictions apply.

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I’m so excited to shop at the Affinity4 online mall! There is so much available, and I know I can find quality products at great prices. I can see many products in each category, and their price ranges – so I can get the best deal. The best part is that every time I click “See it” once I find the product I want, I’m giving back. I particularly like that.

I’m proud to be a part of a company that focuses every part of its business on giving back to charities and ministries – causes that are important to me both personally and professionally. I’m a part of something bigger that focuses on making a difference in our world.

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For this quarter’s volunteering project we decided to host a school supply drive for Union Mission Ministries, a local Christian nonprofit organization. This group runs several shelters in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, including a children’s home. At this time of year, the Children’s home is especially in need of school supplies. To help them out, we hosted the drive here in our office from August 3rd through August 14th.

To make things a bit more exciting, we made the supply drive a competition within the departments of Affinity4. We got a list of all the most needed supplies and assigned each item a point value, and, one item, black & white composition notebooks, a negative number (so if you added one to another department’s box, they lost points). In the end, the IT team won, by earning a total of 2,306 points. As a reward, they will receive a free lunch! Affinity4 as a company contributed dozens of backpacks, which were one of the most needed items on the list. All in all, Affinity4 and its employees contributed over $4,300 worth of school supplies to Union Mission Ministries. Thanks to all Affinity4 employees, this event was a huge success!

Today we were able to present a representative from Union Mission Ministries with all of the supplies we’ve been collecting over the past couple of weeks. They were very impressed by everything we were able to collect, and very appreciative. They mentioned to us that this year in particular they have a lot of children in need. We all felt great knowing that so many children will be ready to go back to school thanks to our drive.

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On Monday July 27, 2009, three members of the Affinity4 team participated in the annual Orphan Network Golf Tournament held at the Cavalier Golf & Yacht Club in Virginia Beach. The Orphan Network is an organization that attempts to make the lives of Guatemalan orphans a little better by providing them with food, clothing, and possibly finding foster homes for them. The Affinity4 participants were Steve Halliday, our President and CEO, Jeremy McGee, Director of IT, and myself, Eric Windham, a software engineer.

The day started with a ‘burgers and dogs’ lunch at around 11:30am. The tournament began closer to 12:45 with a shotgun start. Our team started on the eighth hole and reeled off a couple of pars before our first bogey of the day. In all, we played eight holes before the rain came and we were forced to return to the clubhouse because of the weather. After 20-30 minutes the tournament was called and all scores were tallied for the first seven holes we played (some teams only finished seven). We finished at one over par and needless to say, that’s not a winning score in a best ball golf tournament.

Once the tourney was called, we were asked to stick around for an early dinner, the raffling off of some prizes, and a few auction items. They served a steak dinner while tourney officials raffled off a number of prizes, the biggest being a 3-day cruise. Then we were greeted by the Executive Director of the Orphan Network, Dick Anderson, who gave us an in-depth description of what goes on at their amazing organization. Afterwards we were joined by Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms, who recognized a few local Virginia Beach businessmen in attendance for helping the Orphan Network organize various functions including the golf tournament.
Next came the auctioning off of a state of the art refrigerator, two top-of-the-line washer/dryer sets, and a trip for two to Chicago for a two night stay, dinner at one of Chicago’s finest restaurants, and box seats to a Chicago Cubs game.

All in all, it was a great experience for Affinity4 to be represented at an event for such a great cause. The folks in charge handled the bad weather in stride and still pulled off a great day for those in attendance. Affinity4 also sponsored a hole in the tourney and all raffle ticket and auction proceeds went to the Orphan Network and the great work they do.

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Americans want more religion in business!

According to a recent study by Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, 6 in 10 Americans believe that religious values should help determine decisions made by business executives. While nearly two-thirds of high-level business leaders agree, they don’t seem to be incorporating this opinion in their day-to-day decisions. On a broader note, over 75% of Americans believe that America is currently headed in the wrong moral direction.

The same survey also showed that Americans believe that there has been poor business leadership during the current recession, and that corporate America should begin focusing more on ethics. Some additional interesting facts from the survey include:

•  90% of executives think that a business can be both successful and ethical
•  Most Americans and most executives believe that people should uphold the same moral values in their personal and business lives
•  The financial industry received the worst grade on ethics from Americans

Although none of these statistics are particularly shocking, they do show that Americans strongly believe in a moral code and believe that businesses should operate according to one as well. To see more of the survey results- click here.

Do you think companies should make decisions based on religious and moral values?

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