Governor Scott McCallum, President and CEO of Aidmatrix, was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™ 2009 Award for the Southwest Region - North on June 27, 2009. He was selected by a panel of independent judges as the winner in the Innovative category. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.

Aidmatrix received the Supply Chain Distinction Award 2009 for the Best Value Chain/Supply Chain Solutions Provider.  The award was presented in Duesseldorf, Germany on June 9 during the European Supply Chain and Logistics Summit. The judges were looking for "examples of situations where solution providers have demonstrated excellence and innovation in addressing a significant supply chain challenge wherein the results can be quantified and proved to be sustainable in terms of cost savings, revenue, customer satisfaction, etc." Aidmatrix was also a finalist for the Supply Chain Innovation Award.
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The CDRN inaugural roundtable was held at the National Disaster Management Authority, NDMA, in New Delhi on April 28th 2009. The objective was to share information about the best mechanisms to match needs with supplies, so that when a disaster strikes, India would be ready. Cyclone Aila followed directly in May leaving a trail of destruction on the Eastern Coasts of India and into Bangladesh impacting more than 2.3 million people according to the Associated Press. Both central and state governments are providing relief, and since the cyclone hit, the CDRN team is in continuous contact with relief agencies in Bengal. Some needs include food (pre-cooked, cooked, baby food, dry ration), purification units or tablets for clean drinking water, medicines (anti diarrhea, anti vomit, Hygiene Material -bleaching, Phenyl, limb), and clothes.

West Virginia's website for cash and in-kind donation is now accepting donations to aid in the disaster relief for the recent flooding in southern West Virginia. There are many needs that have been posted on the portal, including long-term recovery items such as drywall supplies, plywood, and tools, as well as household items such as bedding and kitchen essentials. West Virginia is a member of the National Donations Management Network program.
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The Spring '09 Release of the Aidmatrix Network® for Humanitarian Relief is now available. This suite of award-winning supply-chain management, volunteer management and fundraising applications expands its core set of solutions with new modules for comprehensively managing a relief organization's changing needs for volunteers and its overall transportation assets. In addition, several new features include enhancements to the volunteer registration process and in-kind donations management donor-registration process. The total of this new functionality adds substantial strength and efficiency to the end-to-end processing of humanitarian relief for NGOs around the world. The Spring '09 Release is already available to all Aidmatrix customers. 
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The Cleveland Food Bank recently implemented the latest AgencyExpress™ 3.0 into their hunger-relief efforts. AgencyExpress™ is a hunger-relief program that uses an online-shopping network to enable Feeding America's network member food banks to list food inventories online, providing hunger-relief agencies the opportunity to view and order food from their food banks in a simple and efficient manner. This means more time freed up for staff to work on higher value tasks and more time feeding hungry Americans faster than ever before. Susan Tisdale, the Network and Applications Manager at the Cleveland Food Bank stated, "Adding AgencyExpress™ to our food bank network has simplified our whole operation. We have access to more food which in turn allows us to provide more aid to more people in need. It also saves time so we can put our people resources to better use."