Breaking Developments:

The Salesforce.com Foundation named The Aidmatrix Foundation as an award winner of the 2007 Global Grant. "These grants are for visionary nonprofit organizations who are customizing their use of salesforce.com technology to support their ability to implement their social change mission." Aidmatrix will use this grant to expand our "use of Salesforce technology being used as a National Donations Management platform connecting FEMA, state offices, companies and relief organizations in times of disaster.” Read the full article at www.salesforce.com

Food Bank feeds Whole State as Americans prepare July 4th Feasts. Aidmatrix™ partners with the Vermont Foodbank, an America’s Second Harvest affiliate, to go live with the AgencyExpress™ system, part of the Hunger Relief Exchange™ designed to help feed those in need. As the only food bank in Vermont, the agency works with a network of partners for product allocation to the State’s hungry, outreaching to 270 distribution sites. Adding this affiliate agency, Aidmatrix counts a nonprofit to go live with AgencyExpress once every six weeks this year. The number of processed orders through this system totals more than 110,000. Actual food calculations total close to 200 million pounds of food, an average of 2.4 millions pounds a month.

North Carolina Adopts FEMA-sponsored Donations Management System. Governor Mike Easley’s office brings the Aidmatrix Network™ on board for disaster recovery in preparation for projected severe weather in the coming months. The donations management system will also assist round-the-clock getting the Right Aid to the Right People at the Right Time™. Sponsored by FEMA – expanded by organizations like Accenture, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Meadows Foundation – the nationwide platform connects individual and corporate donors to nonprofits and NGOs to help those in need. The online system provides processes for corporations to give, states to allocate, and nonprofits to receive products. This efficient aid model best leverages donation offers of product, human and other resources without waste or downtime.

AMR Names Aidmatrix Nonprofit Sponsor of the 2007 Supply Chain Executive Conference. AMR Research, the premiere advisory firm focused on the intersection of business processes with supply chain and enterprise technologies, has named Aidmatrix its Nonprofit Sponsor of the 2007 Supply Chain Executive Conference. The focus is handling strategic risk and opportunity across the global supply chain. Other sponsors of the event include: Hitachi Consulting, Private Marketplace by EBAY, Oracle, Wipro, SAP, Microsoft, Cognos, Accenture, Cincom and Axway. Kevin O’Marah, Senior Vice President, Research for AMR kicks off the forum with a keynote by General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.). Top 25 Supply Chain Leaders include: Dell, Proctor & Gamble, IBM, Nokia, Toyota Motor, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung Electronics, Wal-Mart Stores, Tesco, Johnson Controls, Intel, Anheuser-Busch, Woolworths, The Home Depot, Motorola, PepsiCo, Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Texas Instruments, Lowe’s, Nike, L’Oreal, Publix Super Markets, Sysco and Coca-Cola.

Aidmatrix recently announced the launch of AidConnect.org, a free website designed to promote more successful humanitarian projects through information sharing. Individuals and NGOs can use the website to post information and projects. Donors and volunteers can learn where their money and time can be applied. Everyone interested in humanitarian issues log on to share views and thoughts. The site is a joint venture of Aidmatrix and Accenture Germany. Visit www.aidconnect.org

Aidmatrix awarded grant from Accenture Foundation Aidmatrix has received a $1.5 million grant from Accenture Foundation to expand the deployment of its highly successful Global Relief Network to humanitarian aid organizations internationally. Stay tuned for reports from around the globe on the impacts of this program.

The Aidmatrix Network has been designated to connect FEMA, U.S. States, charity, and donors under a program partnered with FEMA and funded partially through Homeland Security. Aidmatrix will create a seamless donation system to connect organizations, and to share unsolicited offers of products, services and volunteers. The system also will collect and coordinate needs from the field, enabling better help from the community in time of disaster. This is a major step forward in creating a more efficient American national communication system for disaster assistance and recovery.

The Aidmatrix Foundation & America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network released the 4th version of the ChoiceSystem. The ChoiceSystem, a 2006 Tech Museum Awards Laureate, is a web-based allocation system that allows member food banks to bid on the specific product donations they wish to bring to their warehouse and distribute to agencies in their community. Several of the ChoiceSystem’s 4th version enhancements improve a food bank’s abilities to share surplus product with the network. Since the inception of the ChoiceSystem, food banks have used these features to share 26.5 million pounds of surplus food. The latest enhancements will make the sharing of product even more convenient for food banks.

Aidmatrix featured in the Meadows Foundation 2005 Annual Report

The Meadows Foundation is among the few foundations in Texas that make grants in every region and all 254 counties of the state. As such, the Foundation sees the broad reality of the state’s cultural, geographic, and economic diversity, and its collective impact on life and land in Texas. They view Texas through the eyes of Texans and focus on identifying opportunities for systemic change and active support of the nonprofit agencies, volunteers, social and civic leaders working to make the communities in our state even better.

Aidmatrix is honored to be featured in the Meadows Foundation Annual Report.

The Aidmatrix Foundation: Aiding Relief Organizations

Effective and efficient delivery of goods to a vast and diverse population of need can be a daunting task at any time. Yet, in times of humanitarian crisis, disaster relief agencies can be overwhelmed with well-meaning gifts of donated goods delivered to the wrong place or group. Asking agencies to warehouse, ship, and distribute the materials while providing emergency services can compound the stress on overtaxed personnel. As a result, donated materials often go to waste for lack of efficient inventory management and coordination between the relief agencies, the public, and government.

Aidmatrix is a Web-based service developed by i2 Technologies, a leading supply-chain software company, through its i2 Foundation. The system is designed to improve the delivery of humanitarian relief by connecting product donors to charitable organizations, and effectively managing the transport, intake, and distribution of donated goods to people in need. In 2003, Aidmatrix became a separate 501(c)(3) organization, and its pilot program with Texas food banks exceeded expectations, increasing donations 100 percent and making operations more efficient.

When 450,000 evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita sought shelter in Texas, emergency response teams across the state quickly mobilized. A Meadows Foundation grant of $250,000 helped accelerate implementation of Aidmatrix software so that emergency relief items given in Texas could be quickly and effectively delivered where needed. Working as a bridge between corporations and a network of Texas service providers, the Aidmatrix management system allowed over 1.7 million pounds of humanitarian aid to be distributed in Texas and Louisiana. Currently, more than 16 new corporate donors are utilizing the Aidmatrix Relief Exchange application and are moving life-affirming humanitarian aid to where there is the greatest need.

New Aidmatrix African Communication Forum

The Aidmatrix Foundation has set up a new communications forum for African NGO's to share information related to fundraising and the use of the Aidmatrix Virtual Aid Drive. For information, go to www.aidmatrix.org/africa-forum.

Morgan Lewis Legal assistance in Europe.

Morgan Lewis Legal assistance in Europe.

The Law Firm of Morgan Lewis offices in Germany have offered to provide pro-bono legal work as

Aidmatrix operations continue to grow in Europe. Aidmatrix- Europe Managing Director Shari Temple expressed particular appreciation for this support as Aidmatrix non profit operations span the continent and UK.

Aidmatrix Adds Asian & African Non Profits

Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti, a non-profit in India, that is set up to improve tribal women and children's health conditions
New VAD and signed contract for CETIC-WARUZIKO, a non-profit in Rwanda, that provides computer training for youth.
Carewell Trust, a non-profit in Kenya. They provide several types of humanitarian aid in Kenya.
New VAD set up for the flood disaster in Rajasthan India. In this case Aidmatrix devised a system to link several people in India who in turn sent the link to others as a virtual chain to help those in need.