Get Involved
VOLUNTEER WITH CCMP
Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals (CCMP) is an all-volunteer effort established in the Bay Area in 1976 to overcome the political and economic barriers that deny access to comprehensive medical care for working people. CCMP is a free and voluntary unincorporated private membership association, independent from any government or strings-attached funding. CCMP volunteers provide advocacy and conduct a free-of-charge preventive medical care benefit program for eligible participants.
Call: (510) 436-8020
You can volunteer…
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As an individual
As an individual, you can make a difference alongside other volunteers who are organizing to demand comprehensive health care!
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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!
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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.
CCMP’s phone lines are staffed by volunteers all day, every day.
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 health care starting Day One!
What you can do with CCMP
Build an effective medical benefit program
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!
Gain experience uniting medical professionals of all kinds
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.
Learn critical advocacy skills
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 professional organizing skills through on-the-job training
As a volunteer with CCMP, you will learn how to organize a free-of-charge benefit program based in the community with 40 years of organizing experience.
Produce an independent publication
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.
Lead community organizing campaigns
Build the skills to organize the community for the common goal of comprehensive health care through speaking engagements, canvasses, outreach, and more!
If not you, who?
If not now, when?
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 Bay Area workers to get the care they need.
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Benefit Advocacy Session
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 health care, 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 Bay 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
Monthly
Be an advocate for our general dental sessions, where a dentist opens their office to host up to 30 benefit recipients to receive vital dental treatment, and create a plan of action to restore oral health to working people in the Bay 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 health care.
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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 health care.
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Special Events
Semi-monthly
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.
Volunteer Today
CCMP urgently needs full-time and part-time volunteer organizers, 365 days a year, mornings and evenings alike. All that is required is daring to care, and investing the hard work to learn while doing through on-the-job training in CCMP’s unique organizing method, developed through decades of experience by full-time volunteer organizers. Spend a weekend, a week, or even a whole summer learning how to run an all-volunteer, community-based and completely independent organization.
