Current Members

Affinity Lab's membership includes a variety of talented commercial and not-for-profit professional services providers in the DC area. While each of these organizations are able to deliver compelling value on their own, most have a history of effectively and efficiently working in partnerships with other Lab members to custom build a right-sized solution to client needs.

We invite you to contact any Affinity Lab member for your business needs.

Articulated Impact, LLC

Web, Intranet, Application development
Company:Articulated Impact, LLC
Phone:202.518.9500
Fax:202.518.5507
Web:www.articulatedimpact.com
Contact:

Charles Planck, CEO

Articulated Impact helps organizations create considered, effective and accountable change in our world. We achieve this by solving complex business problems with Web technology. Through our approach and capabilities we translate our clients’ vision, understanding and expertise into Intranets that make knowledge and resources actionable, process applications that deliver clarity and intelligence and Web sites that connect interests to needs.

Articulated Impact is also the founding and parent company of Affinity Lab.

cadre

Company:cadre
Web:www.cadredc.com
Contact:

Melanie Coburn - melanie@cadredc.com / Derek Coburn - derek@cadredc.com

cadre (Connecting Advocates. Deepening Relationships. Exclusively.) is the only DC-based community for remarkable professionals committed to developing relationships with like-minded partners. No lead exchanges. No sales pitches. Here the focus is on adding value for your clients and network while helping your fellow advocates.

Changing the World 101

Company:Changing the World 101
Phone:617.925.0107
Web:www.changingtheworld101.com
Contact:

Jason Connell, Executive Director: jason@changingtheworld101.com

The way to build a better world is through building better leaders. Changing the World 101 helps students, non-profits, and businesses develop the tools they need to begin shaping our planet. How do we do you this? With a laser-light focus on modern leadership development, a dynamic understanding of globalization, and involvement with wildly effective international service projects.

ClassWatch

Company:ClassWatch
Web:TheClassWatch.com
Contact:

ryan.maccauley@TheClassWatch.com

ClassWatch is a revolutionary, new offering currently focused on re-inventing the way students, alumni and fans celebrate scholastic achievement and school pride. ClassWatch is currently licensed at 200+ universities and has contractual partnerships with 18 premier watch brands to personalize watch dials with a school insignia, initials, degree, and/or year while still maintaining the original manufacturer warranty.

Clutch MGMT

A collective of women of color, artist-managers, dreamers and doers.
Company:Clutch MGMT
Phone:202.222.5176
Fax:202.332.1365
Web:http://clutchmgmt.tumblr.com
Contact:

Simone Jacobson

We are clutch, a collective of women of color, artist-managers, dreamers and doers founded in 2010. The Washington, DC-based collective serves our shared goals, helping each of us to leverage the unique talents, skills, and services we offer to a diverse client base. Our services include (but are not limited to) arts and project management, event planning, workshops, training, organizational development, artistic direction, curating, retreats, facilitation, curriculum development, graphic and web design, DJ'ing, photography and more.

Derive

Derive video.
Company:Derive
Web:www.sarahcannon.net
Contact:

Sarah Cannon, cannon822@gmail.com

We make videos, short ones. Derive produces and edits documentary-style web videos for a wide range of subjects and clients.

Design Symphony

Customer Experience Branding, Design, and Marketing
Company:Design Symphony
Phone:202.834.0111
Web:www.designsymphony.com
Contact:

Joey Coleman, Chief Experience Composer

As a customer experience branding firm, we specialize in creating unique and attention grabbing designs and promotions that serve to support amazing customer experiences. From the initial development of brand logos, core values, and collateral, to creating marketing strategies and roll-out promotions, to running advertising campaigns and producing promotional products, Design Symphony assists clients throughout the United States and abroad with messaging, marketing, design, and branding.

Dreaming Out Loud

Company:Dreaming Out Loud
Web:www.dreamingoutloud.org
Contact:

Christopher Bradshaw
Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dreaming Out Loud is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization who mission is to advances a more ethical world that allows underserved children, youth and families to thrive in the global community. We accomplish this by:

* Promoting ethics through our Adinkra Symbol Ethics Mirror
* Providing programs that improve education and reinforce our Ethics Mirror for young people
* Shaping advocacy in areas that affect the communities we work with
* Helping young people and communities mobilize grassroots initiatives to affect change

Eighty2degrees

Doing great work for great people!
Company:Eighty2degrees
Phone:202.277.4456
Web:www.eighty2degrees.com
Contact:

Ambica Prakash, Principal

Eighty2degrees is a socially responsible business and creative studio delivering intelligent solutions for individuals and organizations working for the greater social good. Through creative and practical solutions to our clients' communication and marketing challenges, Eighty2degrees focuses on providing a competitive edge and sharp, contemporary look to our clients' businesses and organizations. We specialize in strengthening our client's brand by creating memorable print & web communication materials while maintaining a cohesive brand image.

Fatback

A DJ collective which serves a galaxy of dancers
Company:Fatback
Web:www.fatbackdc.com
Contact:

fatbackdc@gmail.com

Fatback is a funk, soul, boogaloo and more from across the globe dance party that takes place the third Saturday of each month at Liv (Bohemian Caverns, 11th & U St NW) in Washington, DC. It is founded on the principle of being as inclusive as possible without any pretension. Dancers from all over come to get down and are prepared to sweat all night.

No cover, no dress code, just a chance to do it right.

Goldenbear

Company:Goldenbear
Phone:267.496.0723
Web:www.goldenbear.tv
Contact:

Chris Keener, Director: chris@goldenbear.tv

Goldenbear is a media production company specializing in short-form online and viral video. People-centric storytelling is the target for all our projects. Humor, heart, musicality, and top-notch aesthetic make up our quiver. Our clients have included National Geographic Channel, Discovery Production Group, Travel Channel, TMG Custom Media, Pulsar Advertising, The Woodrow Wilson Center, The Corcoran Art Museum, DC Arts Commission, and then some.

Hemisphere Import Company*

Importers of fine wines. Merchants of great value.
Company:Hemisphere Import Company*
Web:hemisphereimportcompany.com

Hemisphere Import Company is an international wine merchant and importer of high quality Chilean wines.

While the value of our wines has always been defined by quality and price, we now offer Fair Trade and organic certified varietals, which deliver on an even more extensive commitment to values.

* Affinity Lab is home to the mid-Atlantic presence of Hemisphere Import Company.

Ideal Design Co, LLC

Graphic design for non-profits and socially conscious businesses
Company:Ideal Design Co, LLC
Web:www.idealdesignco.com
Contact:

Kristen Argenio
info@idealdesignco
Twitter-@idealdesignco

Ideal Design provides impact-driven communications to socially conscious organizations and businesses. With a decade of experience serving non-profits, we can offer top-notch expertise and talent--within a reasonable budget. Our commitment to minimal overhead means that you can devote more resources to what's most important: your mission. And since we work exclusively with those who share our goal of social responsibility, you can be sure that we are personally committed to your vision.

Infield Health

Company:Infield Health
Phone: 703.829.0404
Web:www.infieldhealth.com
Contact:

Douglas Naegele

Infield lives at the intersection of mobile and health. We aim to help people reach health goals with the help of their mobile phone.

kwai

Serve it green.
Company:kwai
Phone:855.get.kwai
Web:www.kwaihome.com
Contact:

Joe Green, Co-Founder

A distinctive range of eco-friendly single-use plates and bowls for any event: barbecues, dinner parties, weddings, and other social gatherings. Like our plates, our production process is simple and elegant. We sterilize and steam press fallen areca palm fronds – without adhesives or additives of any kind – to create disposable tableware that is sturdier than paper, natural, and 100% compostable.

Linked Senior

Enhancing senior communities through better access to entertainment.
Company:Linked Senior
Web:www.linkedsenior.com

Linked Senior was founded with the goal of creating a world in which the life in senior communities is enhanced through better access to entertainment. This new service revolutionizes how the 60+ spend their time and helps facilities provide quality activities to their residents. By opening up their everyday settings to the world and fostering social communities, Linked Senior provides seniors a mean to stay active and connected.

Marketade

ROI-Driven Internet Marketing and Web Design for Small Businesses
Company:Marketade
Web:www.marketade.com

At Marketade, we believe that the Internet is not only for the big guys. Marketade is an Internet marketing and web design company that works with ROI-focused start-ups and small businesses. We develop easy-to-use websites that convert your visitors to sales, and drive traffic through search engine optimization (SEO), social media, and other low-cost marketing techniques. And we constantly test, measure and improve your online presence though web tracking and analytics.

Massey Media

To win, you must be understood.
Company:Massey Media
Web:www.massey-media.com

Massey Media is a progressive communications company staffed by activists committed to promoting a progressive agenda. Massey Media's mission is to support social justice through communications arts. Since opening in 2005, clients have included the top social change organizations in the areas of labor, health, environment, gender equality, immigrants rights, voting rights, and global justice.

MindFarm

Life's Short. Work With Good People.
Company:MindFarm
Phone:202.470.4810
Web:www.themindfarm.com
Contact:

Andrea Fuller, CEO
Twitter: mindfarmer

It’s quite simple, really. We connect the best, most experienced independent consultants in their fields with the organizations that need them – quickly and cost effectively. Whether it is for a project-based assignment, an interim executive position, or professional part-time engagement, organizations work with MindFarm to identify and engage senior talent capable of making an immediate impact on their business.

Management and Strategy Consulting | Marketing | Communications | Public Relations | Development | Interim Executives

Networx Online

Software for people who own their own business.
Company:Networx Online
Web:www.networxonline.com
Contact:

rachel@networxonline.com

Networx Online offers a variety of software platforms designed to help business owners grow their businesses. We have a strong presence in the network marketing industry, but have recently expanded to a more general market. We have several offerings:

1) MeetingBurner - Free online meetings
2) FaxBurner - Send faxes from your iPhone for free
3) PhoneBurner - Designed to help sales people call their prospects faster
4) Contact Management/Autoresponder/Marketing systems

Olivia Abtahi

Company:Olivia Abtahi
Web:http://www.oliviaabtahi.com

Olivia Abtahi makes films. She edits, writes, directs, and produces them.

Past works include music videos, commercials, documentaries, and shorts. All with good messages, all for great causes.

Open Window Creative Strategies LLC

cool ideas. fresh design. clear communications.
Company:Open Window Creative Strategies LLC
Web:http://www.openwindowcomm.com

Open Window Creative Strategies LLC helps businesses tell their stories more successfully -- their impact, their products and services, their uniqueness -- to move their target audiences to action. We are a full service communications and design firm offering help with institutional storytelling, media relations, writing/editing, creative direction, design, web and social media strategy. Visit us at www.openwindowcomm.com to learn more.

Percy Group Communications

Making the Most of Messaging
Company:Percy Group Communications
Phone:703.403.0483
Web:www.percy-group.com
Contact:

Greg Roth, IOM

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw said that and we live it everyday. Percy Group Communications provides strategy and content for nonprofits, associations, foundations, and businesses, with a focus on compelling and actionable narratives. We offer you our expertise in all manner of communications and marketing, from organizational storytelling and issue campaigns to social and media messaging to writing, publishing and video production, and public speaking training.

Sam D’Amico Photography

Original Photography And Excellent Photography Instruction
Company:Sam D’Amico Photography
Phone:202-559-7981
Web:www.samdamico.com

Skyland Foods

Eat Good. Be Good.
Company:Skyland Foods
Phone:202-262-6813
Fax:202-332-1369
Web:www.SkylandFoods.com
Contact:

Brandon Partridge, CEO

Skyland Foods is a start-up food and beverage company developing products that harness the life-giving power of milk to delight consumers and improve their health. The first products in development are a line of drinkable yogurts that deliver great taste, unique flavors, and advanced nutrition. Skyland Foods’ mission is to build a regionally-competitive dairy products company that is consumer-focused, marketing-oriented, and reliably delivers products that taste great and contribute to health, nutrition, and wellness.

StepFilms and Media, LLC

Media with a conscience.
Company:StepFilms and Media, LLC
Phone:202.491.3210
Web:www.stepfilmsandmedia.com
Contact:

Stephanie Foerster, Director

StepFilms and Media works with non-profit organizations, companies, foundations and associations to show the world how they are making a positive difference. We specialize in video production, web-based solutions and print media, and also produce documentary films for U.S. and international audiences.

The Tindale Team Realtors

Company:The Tindale Team Realtors
Web:www.TindaleTeam.com
Contact:

Greg Tindale

We represent Home Buyers and Sellers in Washington DC and Maryland. We are passionate about creating lasting relationships with our clients and helping them in any way we can. We specialize in working with clients who are:
Entrepreneurs
Socially Conscious
Ecologically Friendly
Creative
Enjoy City Life
Like to Have Fun

Vort Port International

Vort Port International is a 501c3 non-profit focused on empowering communities around the world through social entrepreneurship.
Company:Vort Port International
Phone:734.883.7187
Web:www.vortport.org
Contact:

merry@vortport.org

Vort Port International uses social entrepreneurship to empower individuals through enterprise and technology. Our organization promotes growth through smart and sustainable business practices. Our programs offer those at the Bottom of the Pyramid[1] the opportunity to create their own social enterprises by allowing them to build, maintain, and sell sustainable technologies to promote development and encourage innovation. We do this through a network of engineers, business professionals and support staff.

Washington, DC Economic Partnership

Company:Washington, DC Economic Partnership
Phone:202-661-8670
Fax:202-661-8671
Web:www.wdcep.com
Contact:

Washington, DC Economic Partnership
1495 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004

The Washington, DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP) is your first point of contact for development and business opportunities in the District of Columbia. We partner with all parties, public and private, interested in making DC a great place to do business.

Mission Statement
A 501(c)(3) organization, the Washington, DC Economic Partnership promotes business opportunities throughout the District and contributes to business retention and attraction activities.

What We Do

weBike

Bike Sharing Redefined
Company:weBike
Web:www.webikedoyou.com
Contact:

allie@webikedoyou.com

weBike aims to get more people biking as a sustainable form of transportation with a new, affordable solution to bike sharing: a stationless design that leverages mobile and web technologies to power a rider's interaction with bikes. Our model of bike sharing is targeted towards small and collegiate communities; it's light and customizable making weBike easy to install, cost effective to maintain, and most importantly, complementary to a rider's needs and lifestyle.

William James Foundation

Committed to creating opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurs
Company:William James Foundation
Web:williamjamesfoundation.org

The William James Foundation, working with like-minded national and international partners, is committed to the evolution of a robust, and sustainable global economy in which people everywhere have opportunities to participate and to share in the world’s material goods, human services, and natural blessings. We aspire to do this through:

* Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition
* Speaker Series
* Co-Sponsored Events
* Fiscal Sponsorship

Workplace Fairness

It's Everyone's Job
Company:Workplace Fairness
Phone:202-683-6114
Web:www.workplacefairness.org
Contact:

Paula Brantner
Executive Director

Workplace Fairness a non-profit organization that provides information, education, and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. Workplace Fairness goals are that workers and their advocates are educated about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace problems and that policymakers, members of the business community, and the public at large view the fair treatment of workers as both good business practice and sound public policy.