Aidmatrix will be attending and presenting at this nonprofit IT event on Thursday, June 3rd. The event is from 9am-5pm and is being held at the Microsoft Las Colinas Offices located at 7000 N. SH 161 Irving, Texas 75039.
If you are a nonprofit and are interested in attending this FREE event, click here to register
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Photos from 2010 The National VOAD Conference in Orlando
Michael Ross - Aidmatrix Vice President, Delivery
Kathy Fulton - American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)
Tom Collins - American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)
Charlene Sargent - Adventist Community Services (ACS)
Aidmatrix Booth
Images courtesy of Michael Ross
Friday, April 30, 2010
Humanitarian Logistics Association (HLA) Conference, Paris, April 1st
I had the opportunity to attend the Humanitarian Logistics Association (HLA) conference in Paris on April 1.
My logistics to attend the welcome dinner the first evening were perfectly timed. My flight was on time and although I just missed one RER train and had to wait 15 minutes for the next one, I was still in good time to drop off my stuff at the hotel before going to the restaurant. I was catching up with email on my iPhone when at one of the stops some teenagers went running by and one tried to grab my phone. Luckily, I had a strong grip. After lots of commotion going on outside the train and it not taking off for some time, the police came on the train with one person handcuffed. One of the police asked if I was ok – and then told me I needed to go the police station to make a statement. So after that diversion I made it to the dinner slightly late but before they had moved from the bar to the dinner table. It was a reminder that despite well planned logistics, something unexpected can occur that impacts your plans so you must have contingency plans.
HLA is an association of individuals that are logistics professionals. HLA was formed to increase humanitarian logistics effectiveness through sharing of information as well as providing education opportunities. The conference attendees including logisticians from NGO organizations such as World Vision, WFP, Oxfam, OCHA, Care, Red Cross, ICRC, Mercy Corp, IOM, WHO and other NGOs. There were also individuals from academia. There were even two students from Sweden that are studying supply chain that wanted to learn more about how they could use their education to help others.
As a person that has been involved in supply chain for many years, I really enjoyed meeting others with similar backgrounds. Being relatively new to the humanitarian sector, having spent most of my career in high tech, I am continually amazed at the different type of challenges that those in aid roles face. It was fascinating hearing the stories from the field – particularly from those that had just returned from Haiti.
I was inspired by what HLA is doing. When they explained their Red Dot program, I immediately raised my hand to become a Red Dot. Red Dots are there to help spread the word about HLA and encourage others involved with humanitarian logistics to join. This new Red Dot is recommending that all of you involved in this area join the HLA (www.humanitarianlogistics.org).
Shari Temple
Managing Director, Aidmatrix Europe
My logistics to attend the welcome dinner the first evening were perfectly timed. My flight was on time and although I just missed one RER train and had to wait 15 minutes for the next one, I was still in good time to drop off my stuff at the hotel before going to the restaurant. I was catching up with email on my iPhone when at one of the stops some teenagers went running by and one tried to grab my phone. Luckily, I had a strong grip. After lots of commotion going on outside the train and it not taking off for some time, the police came on the train with one person handcuffed. One of the police asked if I was ok – and then told me I needed to go the police station to make a statement. So after that diversion I made it to the dinner slightly late but before they had moved from the bar to the dinner table. It was a reminder that despite well planned logistics, something unexpected can occur that impacts your plans so you must have contingency plans.
HLA is an association of individuals that are logistics professionals. HLA was formed to increase humanitarian logistics effectiveness through sharing of information as well as providing education opportunities. The conference attendees including logisticians from NGO organizations such as World Vision, WFP, Oxfam, OCHA, Care, Red Cross, ICRC, Mercy Corp, IOM, WHO and other NGOs. There were also individuals from academia. There were even two students from Sweden that are studying supply chain that wanted to learn more about how they could use their education to help others.
As a person that has been involved in supply chain for many years, I really enjoyed meeting others with similar backgrounds. Being relatively new to the humanitarian sector, having spent most of my career in high tech, I am continually amazed at the different type of challenges that those in aid roles face. It was fascinating hearing the stories from the field – particularly from those that had just returned from Haiti.
I was inspired by what HLA is doing. When they explained their Red Dot program, I immediately raised my hand to become a Red Dot. Red Dots are there to help spread the word about HLA and encourage others involved with humanitarian logistics to join. This new Red Dot is recommending that all of you involved in this area join the HLA (www.humanitarianlogistics.org).
Shari Temple
Managing Director, Aidmatrix Europe
Monday, April 5, 2010
CannedWater4Kids Sends 160,000 Cans of Water to Haiti via Aidmatrix Network
CannedWater4Kids, a non-profit initiative to generate awareness and fund projects to purify water for children in developing nations, sent more than 160,000 cans of water to a hospital and orphanage in Haiti using the Aidmatrix Network. The second shipment recently arrived to an orphanage in Haiti, and CannedWater4Kids has provided the following images of the delivery.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
DB MOBIL MARCH 2010 :At last, Help is more efficient
To view the original interview in German with DB Mobility Networks Logistics, click here
The US IT-manager, Shari Temple, Managing Director of the Aidmatrix Foundation in Europe, supports humanitarian aid efforts in crisis areas. Her customized software is used by relief organizations around the world.
In her small office in the Bavarian village of Marzling Shari Temple types and skypes usually at the same time. It has to do with floods, famine, and for the past several weeks, the earthquake in Haiti. Sometimes it’s Mozambique on the line, or South Africa, or the British aid organization World Vision, or EADRCC, the civil disaster arm of NATO. Daily business for this American mathematician is delivering logistics to support disaster relief efforts-humanitarian logistics. Shari Temple is the Managing Director of the Aidmatrix Foundation in Europe. The American nonprofit aims to make relief delivery more efficient. Their mission states: The Right Aid to the Right People at the Right Time™. Reports of deliveries of wrong aid rarely appear in the media. Ski jackets delivered to Sri Lanka or, after the flooding in Atlanta, how a warehouse had to be built to house the mountains of teddy bears donated by well meaning citizens. “Tons of unneeded donations are shipped around the globe,” says the Supply Chain Management expert.
The software which Ms. Temple helped to customize for humanitarian aid is a network platform which affords a real time overview of supply, demand, and location of donations. Various modules which can be used, for example, for donations, volunteers, transportation logistics or warehousing, are easy to understand and use. It only requires an internet connection.
The US Government Agency for International Development uses Aidmatrix software to coordinate their relief efforts. The civilian disaster relief arm of NATO (EADRCC) uses Aidmatrix for relief operations in Albania and Romania, among others.
From her desk in Marzling Shari Temple is responsible for operations in the Middle East and Africa, in addition to Europe. She works not only as Managing Director and Product Manager, but also drives fundraising for the Foundation in order to make the technology affordable to all relief organizations, large or small.
German Interview: Barbara Link for db mobil
English: Elena Mendoza
The US IT-manager, Shari Temple, Managing Director of the Aidmatrix Foundation in Europe, supports humanitarian aid efforts in crisis areas. Her customized software is used by relief organizations around the world.
In her small office in the Bavarian village of Marzling Shari Temple types and skypes usually at the same time. It has to do with floods, famine, and for the past several weeks, the earthquake in Haiti. Sometimes it’s Mozambique on the line, or South Africa, or the British aid organization World Vision, or EADRCC, the civil disaster arm of NATO. Daily business for this American mathematician is delivering logistics to support disaster relief efforts-humanitarian logistics. Shari Temple is the Managing Director of the Aidmatrix Foundation in Europe. The American nonprofit aims to make relief delivery more efficient. Their mission states: The Right Aid to the Right People at the Right Time™. Reports of deliveries of wrong aid rarely appear in the media. Ski jackets delivered to Sri Lanka or, after the flooding in Atlanta, how a warehouse had to be built to house the mountains of teddy bears donated by well meaning citizens. “Tons of unneeded donations are shipped around the globe,” says the Supply Chain Management expert.
The software which Ms. Temple helped to customize for humanitarian aid is a network platform which affords a real time overview of supply, demand, and location of donations. Various modules which can be used, for example, for donations, volunteers, transportation logistics or warehousing, are easy to understand and use. It only requires an internet connection.
The US Government Agency for International Development uses Aidmatrix software to coordinate their relief efforts. The civilian disaster relief arm of NATO (EADRCC) uses Aidmatrix for relief operations in Albania and Romania, among others.
From her desk in Marzling Shari Temple is responsible for operations in the Middle East and Africa, in addition to Europe. She works not only as Managing Director and Product Manager, but also drives fundraising for the Foundation in order to make the technology affordable to all relief organizations, large or small.
German Interview: Barbara Link for db mobil
English: Elena Mendoza
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