Re: AIGA Disaster Relief: Call for Volunteers

Terry,

You should look at http://neworleansnetwork.org/ being hosted by 
CivicSpace. It includes a people finder and other community features.

I've copied Kieran Lal, from CivicSpace, on this message, so he and Terry 
can connect.

Whitney

At 11:43 PM 9/4/2005, John Zapolski wrote:
>Terry Stone is looking for for someone to help build a simple
>database to match Katrina victims with people who need help.  I'm
>forwarding this on her behalf.  Please contact her
><[email protected]> or me for more details.  Time is of the
>essense here, so please respond ASAP if you can help.
>
>John Zapolski
>AIGA National Board Member
>http://www.aiga.org
>
>
>====
>My name is Terry Stone, and I am helping coordinate the Hurricane
>Katrina Disaster Effort for AIGA. Since I am the former president of
>AIGA Miami and was president at the time of Hurricane Andrew (1992)
>that caused so much damage there,  I volunteered to help out in this
>current crisis. Back then, AIGA Members were very generous to us.
>
>We're in the early stages work on the Relief Task Force.  Obviously
>we want to react very quickly, but purposefully to provide
>assistance. However, immediately we need to create a Database to
>track both Victims and Volunteers.
>Do you know anyone who can help us? Someone very savvy in this
>specialty?
>
>We are working to get everyone (Victims & Volunteers)  to respond
>through a central source, the AIGA Relief form on the National
>website, in order to make coordination efforts possible. We need to
>connect that collected data into a database management program (at
>least Excel, better in Filemaker or other Data Management Program)
>that lives online (password protected) and can be accessed in order
>to "match make" the Victims and Volunteers. Not too tough job for
>someone good at this.
>
>Please let me know if you can help...
>
>So far we have created 4 Excell Spreadheet Databases:
>1. Members (Victims/Potential Victims)
>2. Members (Volunteers)
>3. Student Members (Victims)
>4. Sponsors
>
>
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