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Volunteer at CCMP
CCMP is a 100% volunteer-run organizing drive of healthcare professionals, low-paid workers, students and allies fighting for comprehensive healthcare. Your participation will make a difference from your first day in the door. Don’t wait, call today!
Call (718) 469-5817
You Can Volunteer…
As an individual
As an individual, you can make a difference alongside other volunteers who are organizing to demand comprehensive healthcare!
As a group
Groups of any size, whether they are civic groups, sports teams, church or social groups, fraternities, school or business clubs are welcome to participate in CCMP’s program!
As a professional
Not just doctors! Professionals from every background, from creatives and trade workers to business owners and more are able to volunteer their professional skills to build and support CCMP’s program.
How it works
No machines, no automated phone trees, just people.
You call us.
Call us seven days a week, including evenings.
We answer.
A volunteer will answer your call and any questions you have.
You schedule to volunteer!
No prior experience is necessary. We teach you how to organize healthcare starting Day One!
Call (718) 469-5817
Get Started
It’s easy to get involved!
No minimum hours
Volunteers are needed daytimes and evenings, whether for an hour, a day, a week, a summer or anytime. There are many ways to participate in building a volunteer-run, free-of-charge benefit program. Call CCMP today!
No experience needed
We use “on-the-job” training, so anyone can learn while taking action and making a difference. No prior experience or special skills are needed because everything you need to know, we will teach you. Volunteers are productive from their first day in!
Dare to care!
We say that all that is needed is that you care and are willing to work. Low wages and an increasing cost of living force working families to choose between seeing the doctor and paying for rent, food and bills. Your participation can make it possible for low-paid workers to get the care they need.
What you can do with CCMP
As a volunteer with CCMP, you will work with other volunteers to grow a preventive medical benefit program that includes medical, dental, optical, advocacy, supplemental nutrition and more!
Build an effective preventive medical benefit program
Work with a team of volunteer photographers, writers and graphic designers to produce our Vital Signs publication, and get the word out about what is happening to our medical professionals and their patients.
Produce an independent publication
You’ll learn how to work with medical professionals to organize donated care, plan education sessions and expand our medical benefit to meet the needs of low-income workers and the medically uninsured.
Gain experience uniting medical professionals of all kinds
Build the skills to organize the community for the common goal of comprehensive healthcare through speaking engagements, canvasses, outreach, and more!
Lead community organizing campaigns
Through the course of building our benefit program, you’ll learn vital medical advocacy skills in order to make and implement a plan of action for every benefit recipient’s request.
Learn critical advocacy skills
As a volunteer with CCMP, you will learn how to organize a free-of-charge benefit program based in the community with over 50 years of organizing experience.
Learn professional organizing skills through on-the-job training
IF NOT YOU, WHO?
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Weekly and Monthly Volunteer Activities
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Benefit Advocacy Sessions
Weekly
Join CCMP for our twice-weekly Benefit Advocacy Sessions, where we work with benefit recipients to cut through “red tape” with government agencies or other programs that recipients qualify for to obtain healthcare, as well as take the next steps for follow-up from general medical sessions. Learn how to advocate for working people and the medically uninsured today!
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General Medical Sessions
Monthly
Learn how to be a medical advocate during our general medical sessions, when member physicians do consultations with benefit recipients and develop a treatment plan.
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Supplemental Nutrition Pickups
Weekly
Put your car, van or truck to use picking up food donations from produce markets, grocery stores and supply stores in order to meet the growing need for healthy food for working people across the New York Metro area.
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Medical Education and Information Sessions
Monthly
Plan, organize, set up and translate for medical education and information sessions, where CCMP members provide health education and information that attendees can use to keep themselves healthier.
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General Dental Sessions
Weekly
Be an advocate for our general dental sessions, where a dentist opens their office to host benefit recipients to receive vital dental treatment, and create a plan of action to restore oral health to working people throughout the greater New York metro area.
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Publications Sessions
Weekly
Join a team of writers, photographers, artists, graphic designers and printers to develop an independent publication that presents the truth about our medical system, the professionals and patients who suffer the impacts of a for-profit health system, and what CCMP is doing about it.
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Community Outreach
Weekly
Learn how to use arm’s-length organizing to get the word out about CCMP and sign up new volunteers to the goal of fighting for comprehensive healthcare.
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Mailout Sessions
Weekly
Prepare our Vital Signs, Sponsors Guides, leaflets and invitations to special events for mailing to our members and supporters so we can keep them updated on all of CCMP’s victories and campaigns.
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Phone Training Sessions
Daily
Learn professional phoning skills to contact members, potential volunteers, current volunteers and supporters during our phoning sessions, where a certified phone trainer will teach you the skills you need to build CCMP’s program.
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Speaking Engagements
Monthly
Learn public speaking through on-the-job training to publicize CCMP to local clubs, church groups, college classrooms, professional associations, to increase volunteer participation and resources for our fight for comprehensive healthcare.
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Special Events
Semiannually
Whether it is our Anniversary Dinner, Evening of Tribute or another event, you can take a part in not only celebrating our gains and bringing our volunteers, members, supporters and benefit recipients together, you can learn to organize donated resources, recruit volunteer drivers, decorate the hall, prepare and/or serve food, provide entertainment and help in other aspects of the events.
You Can Volunteer Your Professional Skills as a…
Medicine
Medical Professional
As a doctor, nurse or other medical professional you can volunteer on general medical sessions, providing routine health screenings and exams, or by conducting health education sessions on a variety of health topics of concern to low-paid workers.
Call: (718) 469-5817
Arts
Graphic Designer, Illustrator or Artist
Graphic designers can assist in designing eye-catching posters and flyers, as well as assisting with the layout of CCMP’s newsletter Vital Signs. Graphic designers also lead design training sessions with other volunteers. Illustrators and artists can contribute their art to bolster CCMP’s flyers or posters.
Call: (718) 469-5817
Dentistry
Dental Professional
Non-emergency dental care is often inaccessible to low-income workers and their families. To help with corrective and preventive care, dentists and dental assistants can volunteer to see CCMP benefit recipients in their private offices, as well as provide dental hygiene education sessions.
Call: (718) 469-5817
Transportation
Driver with an SUV, Truck or Van
Drivers with SUVs, trucks and vans can assist in driving benefit recipients to donated appointments throughout all five boroughs and both counties of Long Island. Drivers are also needed to help with picking up donated non-perishable foods, fresh produce and sanitary supplies as well as distributing them to benefit recipients, community organizations as well as others.
Call: (718) 469-5817
Skilled Trades
Trade Worker
Professional trades workers can help keep CCMP’s 365 day-a-year, all-volunteer efforts up and running by donating time or resources to insure CCMP’s office is well maintained and upgraded to better fill the needs of CCMP’s benefit recipients as well as membership.
Call: (718) 469-5817
Other
Professional in Other Areas of Interest to CCMP
If you do not see your profession listed here but think you still may be able to help, don’t wait, call CCMP’s office today and discuss with a volunteer organizer how you may be able to contribute. All ideas and suggestions are welcome!
Call: (718) 469-5817
IF ONE IS GOOD, MANY IS BETTER
Get Your Group Involved
CCMP works with houses of worship, unions, clubs and classes to involve their entire group in activities that advance the fight for comprehensive healthcare. From food and sanitary supply distributions to mass mailing sessions to sorting and organizing donated medical supplies and personal protective equipment, groups have played an important role in CCMP’s work.
To get more information, contact CCMP’s office and explain that you want to get your group involved. The first step will be for a representative of your group to come in to learn more about CCMP activities and how your group can participate.
Meet with a CCMP representative to learn more about the work and activities of CCMP
Call to discuss ways your group can participate with CCMP
Volunteer with your group at a preplanned activity that will help to advance CCMP’s fight for comprehensive healthcare
Organizing As a Profession
Full-time Organizers Needed!
CCMP provides organizer training through all our activities, thus giving volunteers the opportunity to become professional volunteer organizers. It requires daring to care, and investing the hard work to learn while doing – engaging in “on-the-job training.” Volunteers are needed 365 days a year, daytimes and evenings, whether for a day, an hour, a week, a summer, a year or for the rest of your life! We own a strategy, a method and have a track record of success. The only missing ingredient is you! Call CCMP today!