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January 2008
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U.S. Chamber Features Aidmatrix
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Business Civic Leadership Center featured the extensive relief work done by Aidmatrix and its partners: Adventist Community Services and the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services in the latest newsletter "The Corporate Citizen."


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Aidmatrix Hosts Volunteer Management Requirements Summit

The Aidmatrix Network solution is continuing to expand its offerings beyond just donations management. The Network, funded in part by FEMA, Accenture and UPS, plans to add a Volunteer Management solution to the list of components. A requirements summit was held January 22-23, 2008 bringing together more than 30 leaders from state and local governments and their non-profit partners to help better define the solution. The initial product is expected to launch later this year.

For more information contact info@aidmatrix.org

Virtual Aid Drives Raise $400K in Q4

We are excited to announce that more than $400,000 worth of monetary donations came through the Virtual Aid Drive during the 4th quarter of 2007. Many nonprofit and for-profit companies alike use the Virtual Aid Drive for holiday fundraising/corporate giving programs. The two largest recipients of the Virtual Aid Drives were the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the North Texas Food Bank.

Learn more about Virtual Aid Drives


SupplyChainBrain.com Features FreeClinicLink™ Program

SupplyChainBrain.com is an online publication covering developments and innovative thinking in supply chain management and a division of Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies. It recently covered Aidmatrix and the National Association of Free Clinics (NAFC) on their creation of the award-winning FreeClinicLink™ program. This program helps improve the delivery of medical relief to the uninsured. This online tool allows the clinics to network together to aggregate their purchasing power. Aidmatrix also brings in a number of medical supply and pharmaceutical companies to donate their products to all Free Clinics. This tool allows the clinics to view and order those goods online 24x7.

Read the story about Aidmatrix and NAFC winning the CSCMP Innovator of the Year Award
Read the full case study on the FreeClinicLink program

Meet an Aidmatrix Team Member
Sophek Tounn is the initial development lead and lead solution architect for Aidmatrix' fundraising solution (Virtual Aid Drive™ and the Original Virtual Food Drive). Current implementations include World Food Programme, Accenture, and TDWaterhouse. He also served as lead developer on the Donation Value Calculator, as well as the Food Bank Pickup and Delivery Scheduler. His work with Aidmatrix has received recognition in leading publications and as a case study featured at last year's Adobe's Macromedia Developers conference.

Tounn has over 8 years of web technology experience. He started his career at the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), as part of a core team to start one of the first distance learning courses via the Internet. Later, Tounn moved to Texas and worked for i2 Technologies designing and developing websites, logos and product demos. Tounn is originally from Cambodia