The Aidmatrix Foundation (Aidmatrix) recently announced the appointment of Kalpana Kaul as Executive Vice President, Aidmatrix India. Ms. Kaul will become director of a new office in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). Ms. Kaul previously served with the global organization Ashoka, where she was part of the core group that launched and built Ashoka's Changemakers program. With Aidmatrix India, she will be focused on developing strategic plans, new partnerships, increasing industry sponsorships, and implementing communication and donor plans. Ms. Kaul will be the lead in the Kolkata office, the second Aidmatrix India office. The Aidmatrix expansion in India has been propelled with the launch of the Aidmatrix Network - India: Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN), which is designed to encourage public and private sector partnerships for disaster relief.The recent launch of the CDRN was integral in the relief efforts for Hurricane Aila in May.

The States of Alaska, Kansas, Kentucky and Nevada have joined the National Donations Management Network (NDMN), powered by the Aidmatrix Network®.  The National Donations Management Network is a national disaster relief coordination system funded by FEMA, the UPS Foundation, Accenture, and the Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc., to better manage unsolicited donations and volunteers. The NDMN now covers more than 81% of the US population, with 42 US states and territories connected to enhance disaster preparedness. With the addition of these four states, the NDMN now provides disaster support for all of FEMA Region VII.
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The St. Louis Area Foodbank and the Road Runner Food Bank in New Mexico 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 food banks associated with Feeding America to list food their inventories online. This system provides 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. Tim Donovan, from the St. Louis Area Foodbank stated, "We have added AgencyExpress™ to our network, and our entire operation has been simplified. Our 400+ member agencies now have access to a larger supply of food, helping them provide more aid to people in need."

The Aidmatrix Wisconsin office facilitated the quarterly Governor's Advisory Board (GAB) meeting in Madison, Wisconsin on July 16, 2009. The Aidmatrix Governor's Advisory Board is a group of executives that serve as ambassadors for Aidmatrix. The GAB meeting was held at the Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin office with Dan Stein, Second Harvest Foodbank President & CEO as the guest speaker. Additionally, the fundraiser was hosted by Bryan Chan, President and Founder of SupraNet Communications at the Madison Club. Both events were well attended and proved to create opportunities for partnerships to expand our humanitarian relief programs. Sponsors of the fundraiser were Bryan Chan, Mark McNally of Bachmann Construction, Tricia Holderman of Elite Facility Systems, Mary Elizabeth McNeely of McNeely Technology Solutions, Jock Menzies of The Terminal Corporation, Trent & Pam Humphries, Mike & Laurie Seifert and Accenture.

Melis Jones, VP of Programs at Aidmatrix, will be presenting at the Region VII Emergency Planning and Response Conference in Kansas on Saturday, August 8th. Ms. Jones will participate on a panel with Jamie Haberl, the Executive Director of Safeguard Iowa, and Bill Lawson of BENS, Business Executives for National Security.

For information about the conference, contact Melis Jones