Affinity4 Launches Operation Christmas Child Holiday Promotion
Norfolk, VA — (SEPT. 24) — Affinity4, an affinity-based marketer specializing in helping charities, ministries and other nonprofit organizations raise funds, announced that it will be conducting a special holiday promotion to help Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child raise funds to fulfill its mission of collecting shoe boxes filled with Christmas presents and distributed to needy children around the world.
Affinity4 will donate $5 to Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child on every Affinity4 Wireless Phone Service sale made through its call center or website during the period from October 1st to December 15th, 2010. In addition, Affinity4 employees will participate in a volunteer program wherein they are being asked to bring in empty shoe boxes and purchase gifts to fill a shoe box for a needy child. Each employee will be in charge of filling at least one shoe box for a child of their choice based on gender, age, etc. The boxes will then be wrapped up like presents and dropped of at a designated location during the week of November 15th-22nd. Any additional money raised after the drop-off will be sent by Affinity4 in a donation check to Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child.
More about Affinity4
Affinity4 is an affinity-based marketing company whose mission is to help support its nonprofits’ goals by assisting in their fundraising and development programs. Specifically, Affinity4 markets various telecommunications products and services, including long distance and wireless phone services, Internet, as well as DIRECTV®, and credit card to the supporters of its international base of nonprofits which includes charities, and ministries. With each supporter’s purchase, Affinity4 provides a 10% GiveBack to the corresponding nonprofit organization. Affinity4’s business model is to leverage and transform ordinary activities such as making phone calls into fundraising opportunities on behalf of vital causes worldwide. The Affinity4 Brand Promise is Ordinary Activities. Extraordinary Giving. To date, Affinity4 has given back more than $76 million to nonprofits worldwide. The company is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia and led by President and CEO, Stephen Halliday. For more information, visit: www.affinity4.com or call 1-800-684-4880.
More about Operation Christmas Child
Operation Christmas Child is the largest children's Christmas project in the world, run by the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse. In 2010, the organization celebrates 20 years of this special shoebox appeal, which has already brought joy into the lives of over 80 million children worldwide.
In its simplest form, it is all about a gift – given by an individual to a child in need. The contributor wraps and packs it, the organization checks and sends it, and Operational Christmas Child’s partners overseas deliver it. It’s that simple.
Last year, over 500,000 people from across the UK and Ireland got involved - including many churches, schools and workplaces. Children and adults alike wrapped and packed almost 1.2 million shoeboxes (from the UK) and over 200,000 (from Ireland) full of gifts and goodies, which were then sent to orphans and vulnerable children living in often difficult circumstances overseas. For more information, visit: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC
