Children International Expedites Relief to Poor Children Around the World and Reduces Operational Costs With New Donations Management System

CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL WEB PLATFORMChildren International uses web platform to expedite relief to poor children. (PRNewsFoto/Children International)


2 Sep 2010 14:47 Africa/Lagos

Children International Expedites Relief to Poor Children Around the World and Reduces Operational Costs With New Donations Management System

Program projected to save $3M in annual expenses

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Children International, a Kansas City-based nonprofit organization, announces the Aidmatrix Foundation has completed implementation of a web platform enabling the charity to accept donated supplies to help poor children and families around the world. The platform was donated in part by Aidmatrix and is valued at $250,000. Use of the system is projected to save Children International up to $3 million in annual expenses while significantly reducing the amount of time and effort used in the procurement of gifts-in-kind donations, thus freeing up more funding to help children in need.
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The platform helps Children International manage their product donations more efficiently. Items such as clothes, textbooks, school supplies, shoes, hygiene items and medical supplies needed to help children and families living in poverty around the world are donated by Children International corporate partners through the website. The new web platform will also provide Children International and its international agencies throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States the ability to post their needs on the Aidmatrix Network and share them with all the members.


Children International CEO and President Jim Cook says, "We are committed to operating Children International's Gifts-in-Kind program as effectively and efficiently as possible. Using Aidmatrix is enhancing our ability to reach out to children and families in dire need of the support from our generous corporate donors."

Children International has a robust gifts-in-kind program that has shipped more than $52 million worth of textbooks, school supplies, clothing, shoes, hygiene items and medical supplies to their partner agencies around the world in the last year. The Aidmatrix platform will save the organization $3 million each year and a significant amount of time and effort used in the procurement of gifts-in-kind donations. Aidmatrix is a nonprofit organization and was able to grant a large portion of the Donations Management Module to Children International.

About The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc.
The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. builds and operates powerful technology hubs that support diverse stakeholder groups in their efforts to work together to solve the world's most challenging humanitarian crises. Our solutions enhance participation, amplify contributions, and accelerate results for humanitarian relief. More than 35,000 leading corporate, nonprofit and government partners leverage our solutions to mobilize more than $1.5 billion in aid annually, worldwide. The donated goods, money and services impact the lives of more than 65 million people. Aidmatrix is a 501(c)3 nonprofit headquartered in Dallas, Texas, USA, with offices in Wisconsin, Germany and India.
www.aidmatrix.org


About Children International
Established in 1936, Children International is a humanitarian organization with its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. Children International's programs benefit more than 335,000 children and their families in 11 countries around the world including Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Zambia, Honduras, India, the Philippines and the United States. For more information, visit Sponsor a Child.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
For Children International
Dolores Quinn Kitchin
Public Relations
Direct: (816) 943-3730
Cell: (816) 718-0711
Email: dkitchin@children.org
https://twitter.com/ci_doloresk

For Aidmatrix:
Melis Jones
Vice President - Programs
P: (972) 869-8171
melis_jones@aidmatrix.org

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CONTACT: For Children International: Dolores Quinn Kitchin, Public
Relations, +1-816-943-3730, Cell: +1-816-718-0711, dkitchin@children.org, or
For Aidmatrix: Melis Jones, Vice President - Programs, +1-972-869-8171,
melis_jones@aidmatrix.org
Web Site: http//www.children.org