Volunteer Program Partnerships

A mother holding her young child in Mwandi, Zambia in October 2019.

Volunteer Program Partnerships for Healthier Lives Worldwide

CMMB's Volunteer Program recruits, prepares, and places skilled volunteers who support our country offices and local health facilities. We work closely with our teams on the ground to assess the gaps in human resources, the needs of the health facilities and communities that our volunteers serve.

Partnerships play a key role in our efforts to fill the urgent gaps in human resources and to strengthen health systems. We deliver broader, longer-lasting impact in our work through collaboration with a wide range of extraordinary partners that include corporations, foundations, health systems, and universities.

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CMMB leverages the strengths, values, and networks of our partnerships in order to find the best match between volunteers and our programs’ needs. Coordinating across multiple sectors to create large-scale social change—a synergistic approach known as collective impact—is more effective than individual organizations working independently on isolated interventions.

Through these essential partnerships, volunteers strengthen local health systems and contribute to improved quality of services that lead to sustainable change.

Academic Institutions

Global Health Practicums

CMMB partners with public health programs to provide opportunities for students to put their skills into action in our field programs. Practicum students work alongside public health professionals and experience the day-to-day realities of the field—all while serving vulnerable women and children. Practicums are career development opportunities for students while they provide technical support and contribute to program development, implementation and evaluation.

Internship Program

CMMB recruits undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of academic disciplines to support our work across programmatic and departmental areas. Our internship program provides students with the opportunity for professional development by honing their skills and gaining work experience. Click here to learn more about our internship program.

Medical Residency Program

CMMB partners with medical residency programs to provide medical students with international clinical experience while serving vulnerable women and children that lack access to adequate health services. Residents are deployed to the field through short-term placements where they work under the direct supervision of a senior medical clinician. Residents provide care and help strengthen health systems in low resource countries by building capacity.

Student Chapters

CMMB student chapters empower youth with the resources and skills to become humanitarian leaders—acting to support the world’s most vulnerable women and children. Working with CMMB, leaders of student chapters mobilize their fellow students through advocacy, education, community building, fundraising, and other activities.

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Corporations

Educators and Mentors

CMMB partners with corporations to share their skills and knowledge by educating and mentoring health professionals and program managers. Educators design their own sessions and deliver training to staff in our community programs or our partner facilities. Experienced mentors are paired with an in-country professional and connect on a regular basis to advise on specific areas identified by the mentee.

Fellowship Program

CMMB partners with pro bono fellowship programs that are designed to leverage the skills and talents of employees. Fellows join our staff on a long-term and full-time basis. They can work with our New York teams, be deployed to the field, or work under a mixed model. Fellows help build staff capacity, provide technical support, and improve health services in the communities CMMB serves. This long-term, service program provides employees on secondments or sabbaticals with an opportunity to make an impact.

Skills-Based Volunteering

CMMB partners with corporations to lend their expertise on a pro bono basis to provide business, marketing, technology, and other professional solutions. Volunteer opportunities are project specific or long-term, and can be individual or team-based, and may be conducted in-person or remotely.

In addition, CMMB offers other corporate engagement opportunities, such as Day of Service events.

Contact us here to learn more about becoming a partner.

Health Systems

Educators and Mentors

Fellowship Program

CMMB partners with pro bono fellowship programs that are designed to leverage the skills and talents of employees. Fellows join our staff on a long-term and full-time basis. They can work with our New York teams, be deployed to the field, or work under a mixed model. Fellows help build staff capacity, provide technical support, and improve health services in the communities CMMB serves. This long-term service program provides employees on secondments or sabbaticals with an opportunity to make an impact.

Institutional Health Partnerships

CMMB partners with health systems to provide institution-to-institution partnerships between U.S. health systems and our health facility partners. Institutional partnerships strengthen health facilities and improve health service delivery and outcomes in the communities CMMB serves. Institutional partnerships can provide support through a variety of engagement opportunities: funding, clinical capacity building, joint program development and management, employee engagement, clinical professional development, short-term medical mission trips, and other opportunities for institutional support.

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Other Partners

Foundations

CMMB partners with foundations to fund and implement projects in the countries where we serve. By partnering with the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, CMMB created a fellowship program that provided opportunities for highly-skilled professionals to bring care to underserved populations in areas of extreme hardship; places that few are willing to go.

Medical and Nursing Associations

CMMB partners with medical and nursing associations to leverage the skills and talents of medical professionals. With the support of nursing associations, nurses are deployed to the field through mission trips to help build capacity and provide increased access to health services and education in the communities CMMB serves.

Religious Organizations

CMMB works with religious organizations for the recruitment of skilled professionals for medical mission trips and other volunteer opportunities. Firm in our faith, CMMB has been working for more than 100 years to deliver the best possible health solutions to women and children in need with dignity, respect, and love.

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$5,287,028 worth of hours served by volunteers in 2019.

87,842 hours served by volunteers in 2019.

98 volunteers served in in 12 sites in 8 countries in 2019.

Aurora Prize: Inspiring Action

The Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity was awarded to CMMB's longest serving volunteer, Dr. Tom Catena, for his courageous work as the first and only permanent medical doctor serving in the only referral hospital in Sudan’s war-torn Nuba Mountains.

The award came with a $1 million dollar prize, which Tom designated to three key partners, including CMMB. One of the initiatives supported by this award was the launch of CMMB’s Aurora Fellowship program. The program provided opportunities for highly skilled professionals to bring care to under-served populations in areas of extreme hardship; places that few are willing to go.

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Dr. Tom is dressing a Nuba Person's arm injury

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Volunteer Report

Throughout the years, our Volunteer Program has stood the test of time and served the poor with medical services. Our extraordinary volunteers continue to honor CMMB's legacy of service.

Our volunteers are living out their faith, expressing their values, and putting their knowledge and skills into action to provide high-quality healthcare to vulnerable women, children, and communities in need.

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