AFL Spartanburg Presents United Way of the Piedmont with $41K+ in Campaign Contributions

09/06/2008

Spartanburg, SC - On June 9, AFL presented a $41,330 check for its annual United Way campaign to Kathy Dunleavy, President, and Monica Cothran, Campaign Director of the United Way of the Piedmont.

AFL kicked off its campaign with a corporate contribution of $5,000 and a challenge – matching dollar for dollar all donation over last year’s employee contributions of $21K+. AFL ambassadors were recruited internally to answer questions and talk with other associates about United Way and their mission. In addition, two major fundraising events were held – one was an Agency Fair, where various agencies from both Spartanburg and Greenville where invited set up a display and talk with associates about what they do, what their needs are and how they can help. The second event was a “dunk tank lunch” in which associates were invited to dunk their favorite manager. This event alone brought in close to $2,000.

This year’s contribution is an increase of 12% in monetary contributions and 28% in employees who contributed to the campaign. Thank you to everyone who helped with the planning of the event and to all associates for the success of this year’s campaign.

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AFL is an industry leader in providing fiber optic products, engineering expertise and integrated services to the Electric Utility, Broadband, Telco, OEM, Private Network and Wireless markets. It has operations in the U.S., Mexico and the U.K. AFL is a division of Fujikura Ltd. of Japan.

Contact 
Corie Culp, Public Relations Manager
AFL
864.433.5409
corie.culp@aflglobal.com