A MessageBox with a Message: Community Voicemail
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Written By Reprise Media | December 12, 2005 | Share This
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It’s the holiday season and no doubt a lot of charities are competing for your attention.
Consider Community Voicemail, an organization that provides free voicemail boxes to the homeless and unemployed, solving one of the many Catch-22s that inhibit such individuals from bettering their situation.
The highly successful Seattle-based charity has branched out to 37 cities and 19 states and recently provided assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Learn more about CVM and its aims on its official site and in this article on BoingBoing.
If volunteering your time is more appealing, New Yorkers will want to check out NewYorkCares.org.
I’ve had personal experience with this organization, and I can tell you that the whole system is set up to make it shockingly simple for busy professionals.
Sign-up and scheduling are all done online and the orientation is a quick 45 minute session that takes place 5 times a week in various locales. It’s perfect for the person who wants to volunteer but finds adding one more line item to their schedule a little overwhelming.
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