Aidmatrix
Launches Texas
Transportation PortalAidmatrix unveiled the Texas Transportation
Portal at the annual Texas Food Bank Association conference held this month in San Antonio to educate
the 19 member food banks on best practices and on how to expand internal
capacity. The Texas Transportation Portal is an online tool that will help food
banks view and coordinate donated and discounted transportation services. The
pilot of this program is set to begin on April 1st and will be rolled
out to all Texas
food banks early this summer.
Aidmatrix
Honors Top Volunteers for 2007; Mary Elizabeth McNeely Named "Volunteer of the
Year"
Gov. McCallum, CEO and President of Aidmatrix, hosted the 2007
Volunteer Awards program March 4th, 2008. This event was designed to honor the
many volunteers who contribute in large and small ways to Aidmatrix' mission
each year. More than 60 volunteers were honored as well as four companies:
Accenture, Microsoft Thomas Group, Samsoft and Source for Humanity, which
combined to total thousands of volunteered hours. Mary Elizabeth McNeely was named the
"Volunteer of the Year" for the countless Oracle DBA services she performed for
our delivery team during a data center migration project. We are thankful for each
of these volunteers and their continued assistance as they helped us to achieve
and share our 2007 goals.
Florida Increases Disaster
Preparedness
With
support from the Florida Division of Emergency Management, the Governor's
Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service, Volunteer Florida,
facilitated a workshop on March 4-5 at the State
Emergency Operations
Center in Tallahassee to kick off the Florida Donations
Portal. The more than 100 participants included representatives from 40 Florida
County Emergency Management Agencies and more than 40 statewide and local
non-governmental and faith-based organizations, many of them Volunteer &
Donations Support Agencies with roles in the Florida Comprehensive Emergency
Management Plan. Aidmatrix presenter Mike Seifert offered a demonstration
of the Aidmatrix Network, with Volunteer Florida staff providing
information on the statewide implementation of the program. A meeting of
Florida Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (FLVOAD) was held March 5 in
conjunction with the Aidmatrix Network workshop. The requisite membership in FLVOAD or a
local VOAD/COAD for eligibility to participate in the Florida portal web site on the Aidmatrix Network is
anticipated to strengthen VOAD at all levels and promote coordination among Florida relief agencies.
 Learn more about the Aidmatrix Network
New
Partner - Dallas Furniture Bank
Aidmatrix announces its partnership with the Dallas Furniture
Bank. This partnership will help enable a more efficient distribution of
donated goods from the Dallas Furniture Bank to its recipients through the use
of the Aidmatrix Inventory Management solution. The Dallas Furniture Bank supports
several nonprofits who handle emergency response efforts while also
providing direct service to people in need.
Learn more about the partnership
NTEN
2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference, New
Orleans, LA Aidmatrix presented the Aidmatrix Network with NVOAD and FEMA at the NTEN's
Nonprofit Technology Conference in their Innovation Plaza.
Only eight companies were invited to present at the Innovation Plaza
which was designed to "display the best of the projects, tools, and services
from the sector." More than 1,000 people attended this event where this year's
theme was "Building Community: Connections around the globe and around the corner."
Learn more at http://www.nten.org/ntc
Aidmatrix
Invited to Operations and Technology Consortium (OTC) Summit
Second
Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties hosted an Operations
and Technology Consortium Summit on February 25th -28th
2008. They referred to the event as "Key to the success of the OTC is a
partnership with America's
Second Harvest and technology product vendors such as eSoftware Professionals
and Aidmatrix." Aidmatrix was honored to attend this event that included all the thought-leaders within the hunger relief domestic community and participated in
discussions about future directions for the organization.
Meet an Aidmatrix Team Member: Daniel David
Daniel David is the
operations specialist for Aidmatrix. His current responsibilities include FEMA
reporting, accounting management, and preparing financial reports for executives
and board members. Additionally, Daniel manages and assists in multiple programs
including the computer donations program that has enabled over 3,000 computers
to be placed in the hands of charitable organizations in the past year. He also
manages an internet fundraising system, called Virtual Aid Drive,
which raises around $1 million annually for nonprofits around the world.
His role is shifting in
the near future to include more work with the newly opened Aidmatrix
India office that will create new
horizons of opportunity for Aidmatrix.
Daniel grew up in a
small East Texas town called Athens. He graduated with a Bachelors of
Science degree in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. He is a married man, an
avid reader, and enjoys extreme sports such as wakeboarding and
snowboarding. Daniel has worked
for the Aidmatrix Foundation since May 2006. |
