Aidmatrix Visits our AgencyExpress Partner at the Arkansas Foodbank

On the Road Again – Visiting the Arkansas Foodbank Team, Little Rock

Charlotte Medley, AgencyExpress Program Specialist, 7/11/12

I had the pleasure of meeting the Arkansas Foodbank team, one of the newest AgencyExpress partners, going live on April 2, 2012. Dianne Williams, Chief Program Officer and her Agency Relations team invited me to participate in their agency training on July 11^th   attended by approximately 15 agencies – two representatives from each. 

AgencyExpress is a web-based application specifically customized to work with your Feeding-America-supported warehouse system.

Dianne facilitated the training; walking through the process from login to placing an order and checking the status in Order Management.

 

Lynne Gemmell, Program Services Assistant, prepared various handouts including a User Guide for each attendee and had carefully checked each participant’s login for the test/training environment.

Connie Bledsoe, Agency Relations Director, assisted the attendees with login and questions.

Kudos to Phyllis Haynes, CEO,  and her team for acquiring a grant providing a $100 food bank credit to each agency completing training and submitting an order into the ‘live’ AgencyExpress environment. What a great incentive for approximately 290 members with more than 300 sites throughout the 33 counties of central and southern Arkansas served by Arkansas Food Bank.

The Arkansas Foodbank also serves as a warehouse/’mixing center’ for five other regional food banks throughout Arkansas, which benefit from state-wide grants. Food product is purchased from the grants, and Little Rock warehouses it for the others until a pick up can scheduled.

If you have the opportunity to visit Little Rock or are just passing through, I encourage you to contact Phyllis Haynes about a visit to the food bank. You will be warmly greeted and inspired by their passion to end the hunger crisis in Arkansas.

For more information about AgencyExpress, Feeding America's online shopping solution, please contact Charlotte Medley at Charlotte_Medley@aidmatrix.org.