It makes no sense not to do this.... Affinity!

We have opened an account with BBVA Compass for the funding of the homeless mission we do out of the church. Each week, the mission takes 100+ meals to a waiting group of hungry men and women in Linn Park in downtown Birmingham. We opened the funding account under The Well's 501(c)3 nonprofit status, and that made it eligible for a new program the bank has, called "Compass for Your Cause". Existing customers can either call or email our guy at Compass or call someone at their branch and tell them to add our "Affinity Code" to their accounts with Compass. This costs nothing, does not change your account number or anything, but after doing this, Compass will donate 0.25% of every debit card transaction to our homeless account. Again, this is a donation from Compass and does not come from the customer's account or affect their balance in any way, ever.



Here's what you do in 3 easy steps:

1. Call Compass and tell them you want to add our Affinity Code to your account to support The Church At The Well's homeless mission.
2. Tell them our Affinity Code: 77983
3. There is no step 3. You're done. You don't have to do anything else. You will never be charged or have any money deducted from your account. Compass makes the donation, you only have to have them add the Affinity Code 77983 to your account.

Don't be surprised if your person at Compass is not tatally aware of this program since it is brand new. Our guy had to do a little research on how to open the account itself, and probably a lot of other bankers have not done the Affinity Code before. It would probably be easiest to call our guy since he knows what the deal is. His contact info is:

Steven Howland
BBVA Compass - Lee Branch
Senior Financial Sales Advisor
105 Doug Baker Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35242
Branch 205-297-4610
Direct 205-524-5669
Fax 205-297-4625
steven.howland@bbvacompass.com

Additionally, for anyone who opens a new account and mentions "The Church at The Well's homeless mission", Compass will donate $20 to our homeless mission account.

0.25% is not much, but if enough people have Affinity with us, it will begin to add up. Do it today, and tell your friends how they can do this, too! Copy this post to an email and send it to them, post it on your Facebook page, etc.

Thanks!