Smart Ideas to Empower Humanitarian Relief - Newsletter 
 News from October 2011

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Hunger Relief Success
FareShare
Recent Conference Schedule
Holiday Virtual Donations Drive
Digital Ball DFW

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Hunger Relief Success in Northern California  
Food Bank Contra CostaAidmatrix recently announced its partnership with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano to implement AgencyExpress® to increase their hunger-relief capacity for the people of Northern California. AgencyExpress is a hunger-relief program that uses online ordering technology 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. "We are very excited to be the newest food bank to sign an MOU with Aidmatrix for the online shopping solution, AgencyExpress. AgencyExpress will provide efficiencies for our food bank staff as well as our agencies in the Contra Costa and Solano counties of California," commented Steve Linkhart, Director of Operations for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. There are currently 43 Food Banks nationwide that are using AgencyExpress.
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FareShare Depots Expand Hunger Relief with Online Warehouse Technology  

FareShareFareShare Birmingham & FareShare Merseyside are the latest hunger relief warehouses to go live on the Aidmatrix Online Warehouse solution. This is part of a multi-warehouse rollout plan underway this year. "FareShare is a great example of how each go live gets easier as they do more. This was done with minimal help from Aidmatrix," reported Shari Temple of Aidmatrix. FareShare Birmingham & FareShare Merseyside are the 12th & 13th warehouses live on the network.

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Trekking the Globe with Thought Leaders in Humanitarian Relief   

Aidmatrix employees around the world have been attending conferences in the last month to talk about Aidmatrix and learn how our organization can help in the future of humanitarian relief.

   

Fleet Week in San Francisco: President & CEO Governor Scott McCallum & COO Keith Thode attended Fleet Week in San Francisco, California, where they joined other prestigious panelists and presenters in sharing insights from all sectors involved in humanitarian response.

 

International Supply Chain Conference in Berlin: Aidmatrix Global SCM Senior Principal Shari Temple attended the 28th International Supply Chain Conference in Berlin, Germany, where she was on a panel discussing humanitarian logistics, and the role it has in saving lives.   

 

Finance, Technology and Human Resources Conference in Chicago: VP - Delivery Michael Ross & Product Manager Bob Good participated in the FTHR Conference hosted by Feeding America in Chicago, Illinois, to discuss new innovations and advancements in Hunger Relief. 

It's not too late to put together a great holiday fundraising campaign! Our Virtual Aid Drive can get you going in an afternoon. Simply set up the online drive, write your email, and blast out the link to your contacts. The tool is FREE to set up, we handle all the processing and send you or your designated nonprofit a check at the end of the drive. It's really that simple. Our New flash-based game (featured above) makes giving more fun -- The Plus+ version of the Virtual Aid Drive takes virtual fundraising to a new level. Hi-end design and graphics boost your food drive with game-driven technology to educate donors about the higher cost of acquiring food with high nutrition. Contact us for a free demo today.  

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2012 DFW Digital Ball Founders' Dinner - A Success!  

blue fundraiser invite artA tremendous amount of excitement was generated in DFW at Aidmatrix' Digital Ball Founders' Dinner at Las Colinas Country Club on Thursday, October 20, 2011. The event was the introduction of the Digital Ball to Texas and some of DFW's most elite technology innovators and thought leaders gathered to lay the groundwork for the 2012 Inaugural DFW Digital Ball.

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