New Aidmatrix Mobile Giving!
Help us raise $10,000!
Text GIVEAID to 85944 to donate $10 to Aidmatrix
(the $10 will be added automatically to your monthly phone bill)
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Catholic Relief Services Partners with Aidmatrix to Improve International Relief and Development Efforts
 Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Aidmatrix recently announced their partnership. CRS is an international humanitarian agency that assists impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas. Through this partnership, Aidmatrix supply chain management technology will enhance CRS' global efforts. "We believe that the Aidmatrix technology will greatly enhance Catholic Relief Services' programs around the world, and our staff is eagerly awaiting the opportunity to begin applying it to their work," stated Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services. This program will begin with pilots in four locations: Kenya, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Palestine.
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2011 Fall: Delivers Social Media Integration & Azure(TM) Cloud Computing
Aidmatrix announced the Fall 2011 release of the Aidmatrix Network for Humanitarian Relief. This latest release is currently in production and delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to partner NGOs and government agencies. The major additions to the product suite include the new Virtual Aid Drive Plus+ module, an online fundraising tool with Flash game-like components to engage and entertain donors through the giving process while also enabling the donor to further promote through social media. Several new managed service offerings are also included in this release: Event Site Development, Hosting & Support; eMarketing Managed Services; and Social Media Advertising Services. Enhanced modules within the Supply Chain Management Suite include the Online Warehouse module which was migrated to the Microsoft Windows Azure™ Cloud to provide even greater scalability and rapid worldwide deployment capability - especially important during times of disaster response. The Online Warehouse Plus+ module and Online Ordering for Feeding America modules were also enhanced.
For complete technical details and screenshots, visit www.aidmatrix.org/Fall2011.
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3 More FareShare Depots Expand Hunger Relief with Online Warehouse
 FareShare Kingston upon Hull (England), FareShare North Wales and FareShare Dundee (Scotland) are the latest hunger relief warehouses to go live on Aidmatrix' Online Warehouse solution. This is part of a multi-warehouse rollout plan underway this year. These 3 warehouses went live in the past month and there are now 11 total warehouses live on the network.
Read the full story about Kingtson upon Hull, North Wales and Dundee
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The State of Vermont recently joined the National Donations Management Network by signing a partnership agreement with the Aidmatrix Foundation. The NDMN is a national system of State web-based portals powered by the Aidmatrix Network and funded by FEMA to provide a coordination solution for unsolicited goods and unaffiliated volunteers in disasters. This web-based tool reduces paperwork for processing donations and enables more streamlined information sharing for State Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), National VOAD, State governments and FEMA. The NDMN now covers 93% of the U.S. population and connects 51 states and territories with hundreds of relief organizations.
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Trucks for Change Movematrix Transportation Portal
 The Trucks for Change Movematrix portal will connect Canadian trucking firms with registered charitable organizations that need transportation services to move humanitarian aid. By matching nonprofit transportation needs with transportation carriers, the system will make it convenient and cost effective for transportation companies to offer their professional services to nonprofits at discounted rates, and to occasionally donate their services. Trucks For Change Network™ is a not-for-profit organization made up of members from across the transport logistics industry. They connect their member trucking firms (carriers) with registered charitable organizations requiring transport services to do their work.
Learn more about the Movematrix portal
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Seeking Small-Value Prizes for Summer Food for Good Program
The Summer Food for Good Program provided food to as many as 10,000 children in need each day this summer and engaged them in physical fitness activities to encourage them to be physically active. This program was sponsored by an Aidmatrix corporate partner, CitySquare in Dallas and Catholic Charities in Chicago. We are currently seeking prizes for the children, in quantities from 200 to 10,000, such as toy cars, bubbles, musical toys - just about ANYTHING! The prizes will be used as an incentive to keep kids interested in the healthy meals and physical activities throughout next summers program.
Prizes can be offered via this online donations form, the use of which has been generously made available by our nonprofit partner Powered By Action.
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Aidmatrix Introduces Digital Ball Event to Dallas -
Ft. Worth; Founders' Dinner October 2011
In anticipation of the inaugural DFW Digital Ball of 2012, Aidmatrix is hosting an invitation-only Digital Ball Founders' Dinner on Thursday, October 20, 2011. The event will convene some of DFW's most elite technology innovators and thought leaders to lay the groundwork for the 2012 Digital Ball. The go-to CIO black-tie event, modeled after our NPower Texas affiliate organizations' sellout events in Charlotte, NC, and Atlanta, GA, will solidify DFWs place as the global epicenter for technology innovation for nonprofit organizations.
Members of the Digital Ball Founders' Dinner will play an instrumental role in orchestrating next year's Digital Ball event by serving on event planning committees which will work to secure DFW's top CIOs as event hosts, attract local corporate sponsors, develop the event guest list and provide consultation on the world class entertainment for the event.
Our Advisory Committee is accepting applications from interested parties and will offer a select number of invitations to the Founders' Dinner on October 20, 2011. Please note, sponsorship is required for Digital Ball Founders' Dinner attendees. If you are interested in a seat at our October 20, 2011 Digital Ball Founders Dinner, please contact Karen_Krygowski@aidmatrix.org.
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