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Feeding America:
Improving the Way America Gets Fed

Feeding AmericaEvery day, more than 49 million Americans struggle with hunger. Aidmatrix and Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, partner together to use technology in the fight against hunger in the United States. Feeding America helps provide food assistance to more than 37 million people each year. Traditionally, Feeding America, their food bank employees, and their 61,000 hunger-relief agencies processed product donations manually, via fax or telephone. Aidmatrix partnered with Feeding America to tackle this challenge by creating systems that maximize the efficiency of the Feeding America network of food banks and ultimately, to serve more people in need.
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Aidmatrix Deploys Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform to integrate supplies from all over the world
Microsoft LogoAidmatrix recently deployed our first production solution on Microsoft's state-of-the-art technology platform called Windows Azure platform. This solution is an integration between two different modules in our supply chain management (SCM) solution set. It enables transactions to be shared in near real-time between the two modules. What in the world does this mean and how does the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform help?
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Aidmatrix Welcomes Two New Board Members: Tish Whitcraft and Ellen Wood
Tish Whitcraft
Tish Whitcraft is SVP of Customer Experience and Operations for MySpace and is responsible for delivering a world-class user experience to the 250M+ MySpace users. In her role, she is responsible for building scalable global customer support, user experience and satisfaction and driving the user feedback loop back to the business. In addition, Ms. Whitcraft is also responsible for all the customer technology systems, CMS and MySpace's online help platform.

Ellen Wood
Ms. Wood is the President and CEO of vcfo, a professional services firm that offers finance, accounting, recruiting, human resources and capital needs. Prior to founding vcfo, Ms. Wood served as Executive Vice President and CFO at Capital Network System, Inc., a privately held international telecommunications company based in Austin, Texas. Earlier in her career she co-founded a telecommunications business in Austin (Tele-Craft), and served as the Senior Financial Officer for two residential home builders, Hometown Builders and Block Watne.
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Aidmatrix Conference Schedule
2010 Feeding America Finance, Technology and Human Resources Conference in Chicago, Illinois, October 4-6
Vice President Michael Ross attended this conference to discuss how Feeding America uses Aidmatrix technology to fight hunger in the US.
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Asia-Oceania Resilience Conference in Singapore, October 5-6
President and CEO Gov. Scott McCallum presented on the preparation phase of emergencies, business continuity and disaster management in an address titled Global Resilience Partnerships
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Thomas Group Announces - 'The Decisive Corporation! Seminar' in Dallas, TX, October 12 & 14
President and CEO Gov. Scott McCallum will be speaking at this seminar, conducted by Executive Chairman and CEO of the Thomas Group, author of the Decide Better! book series and Aidmatrix Board Member Michael E. McGrath, on leadership and success as an executive
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Supply Chain World Europe 2010: Navigating Business Cycles in Munich, Germany, October 24-26
Shari Temple, Aidmatrix Europe Managing Director, EMEA , will deliver an address on "Applying the SCOR Model to the Humanitarian Sector". Among the corporations presenting are: Merk, Siemens, Infineon, Dow Chemical and Saab.
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International Association of Emergency Mangers (IAEM) Conference in San Antonio, TX, October 29 - November 4
President & CEO Scott McCallum will be speaking in a breakout session titled Aidmatrix: Building Community Resilience with Supply Chain Management tools. Senior Program Manager Brad Watts will also be in attendance.
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Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) International LEAN Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, November 15-19
Chief Operating Officer Keith Thode will be giving a presentation entitled The Non-profit Supply Chain - The Private Sector's Role: Driving bottom-line corporate results while making a real humanitarian impact
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Gifts in Kind Summit November 16-17 in Fort Myers, FL

Vice President Melis Jones will be attending the conference to discuss Supply Chain Technology in International Response
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Aidmatrix Fundraiser Coming Up Soon - Groovy 70's Theme, Please join us in Just One Week!
The Aidmatrix Fundraiser is coming up -- just around the corner!  If you happen to be in Dallas on Thursday, October 14, please stop by and check out the event - click here for tickets!  It will be a fun way for you and your guests to learn more about Aidmatrix and what we do to further humanitarian relief around the world, to meet our CEO, Governor Scott McCallum, as well as members of our Board of Directors and other local supporters - all while sharing an enjoyable evening with your Aidmatrix friends.

If you can't join us at the Digital Disco Ball, we would still appreciate your support of Aidmatrix's Domestic and International Humanitarian Relief Efforts please click here to make a donation.
  • $65 Donation can transport 325 meals to local Texas individuals in need
  • $100 Donation can help provide one week of Aidmatrix warehouse capabilities for UK's food banking system (FareShare)
  • $150 Donation can feed 1,050 meals in the United States
  • $175 Donation can get on pallet of critical disaster relief supplies to those suffering from flood ravages in the Punjab
  • $250 Donation can help transport life-saving medical equipment to remote, underserved areas of Africa or Polynesia
As always we greatly appreciate your ongoing support of Aidmatrix and hope to see you at the event! Please let me know if you're able to join us or if you have any questions.  Your donation is fully tax-deductible and will be used to support the development and support of technologies to help increase efficiency and reduce waste in the delivery of humanitarian aid in Hunger Relief, Disaster Relief, General Humanitarian Aid, Fundraising and Donations Management.

Supporting our fundraising event through a virtual ticket/donation will get you entered in a drawing for a $50 Starbucks gift card!
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