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Motorola, WebEx Work for Katrina Relief
What two firms are doing to help with the cleanup.
By DAVID SIMS
TMCnet CRM Alert Columnist
Motorola, Inc. and WebEx today launched additional initiatives to support the disaster- relief efforts in the Gulf Coast region devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
These include Motorola's $1 million education fund to help rebuild schools and educate displaced children in the region and a Motorola employee program to collect donated goods at many of the company's campuses. Details of the education fund will be announced shortly.
Ed Zander, Motorola's chairman and chief executive officer, said the company's response to Hurricane Katrina is "the single largest disaster-recovery response in Motorola's 77-year history."
To date Motorola's Mission Critical response to Hurricane Katrina has included:
Motorola emergency-response plans activated prior to Katrina's landfall and continue to deliver replacement communications equipment to first responders (police, fire, rescue) and cellular providers in the region on a 24/7 basis.
Motorola is providing direct financial support to the American Red Cross' Disaster Relief Fund with an immediate cash donation of $250,000 from the Motorola Foundation. The Motorola Foundation is also donating an additional $250,000 as part of an employee matching-gift program.
Motorola has shipped over 21,000 pieces of emergency communications equipment (portable radios, fully charged batteries, chargers, repeaters, portable transmission sites, portable antennas) to first responders crews in the region. They've also kicked in over 300 cellular phones, sent to Cingular sites in the region to be used for relief workers and victims and in shelters. Cingular is providing free airtime.
WebEx Communications, a provider of collaborative web meeting applications, has created the WebEx Katrina Relief program to deliver services and support to organizations serving Katrina victims and small businesses affected by the hurricane. A WebEx Katrina Relief resource page is available at:
The WebEx Katrina Relief program provides:
Free Web Collaboration Service. WebEx is providing free services for relief organizations and small businesses affected by the hurricane. The free services are designed to help organizations improve coordination of their relief efforts and businesses replace lost IT infrastructure capabilities. The service capabilities include web meetings, secure document sharing, group scheduling, task management, database applications and contact directories.
Financial Support. WebEx is making a donation to the American Red Cross and will match employee donations through the end of the year.
Free Web Events and Training Services. Relief organizations looking to raise awareness of specific aspects of their program or to train volunteers can host free online events and training sessions. WebEx event producers will help organizations pull together and host these online events.
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David Sims is contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles by David Sims, please visit:
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