Bring Community Voice Mail
to Your Area
Can’t find Community Voice Mail in your city? We want to talk to you! Download the Request for Proposal to learn how to apply to become a CVM host agency.
Community Voice Mail continues to seek new partnerships. CVM currently partners with over forty host agencies who in turn partner with nearly 2,000 human service organizations to distribute CVM to those in need.
There are many ways to Start a CVM program in your community:
Become a Host Agency. (Best option for large cities) Your organization hosts the program for your community providing blocks of voice mail boxes to multiple other human services agencies. A local manager is hired to run the program. Learn how to become the host agency. Download the Request for Proposal to learn how to apply.
Become the Stand Alone CVM provider. (Best option for small communities) Your organization is the sole referral resource for CVM in your community. You serve your own clients as well as take referrals from other human services organizations to enroll clients onto a CVM number. Learn how to become the stand alone CVM provider.
For San Diego Agencies. If you represent a human services organization in San Diego, learn how you can partner with us.
CVM is eager to partner with any community interested to make CVM available. Cities of particular interest are:
Baltimore, MD |
Manchester, NH |
Birmingham, AL |
Miami, FL |
Buffalo, NY |
Milwaukee, WI |
Cincinnati, OH |
Montgomery, AL |
Columbus, OH |
Nashville, TN |
Des Moines, IA |
New Orleans, LA |
Fargo, ND |
Newark, NJ |
Fort Wayne, IN |
Oakland, CA |
Greensboro, NC |
Omaha, NE |
Hartford, CT |
Portland, ME |
Honolulu, HI |
Providence, RI |
Indianapolis, IN |
Rochester, NY |
Jackson, MS |
Sacramento, CA |
Jacksonville, FL |
Salt Lake City, UT |
Kansas City, MO |
St. Louis, MO |
Las Vegas, NV |
Wichita, KS |
Madison, WI |
Wilmington, DE |
The Community Voice Mail Model
Each CVM site around the United States is hosted by one main social or health service agency ("Host Agency") which is responsible for funding and managing the CVM service for the whole city/community. The host agency gives out the voice mail boxes to other participating agencies who then give them to the end users/clients.
Each new CVM site will be offered to use the Centralized Voice Mail System. This system is housed in Seattle and includes the following: phone lines, voice mail server space, client database & reporting, back-ups, upgrades, virus protection and tech support. The host agency has no hardware/software costs for the voice mail system and needs only to have a recent model PC & Internet access from which to manage the CVM Program.
Please contact Anna Landa at the CVM National Office with questions at (206) 441-7872 x185 or via email at alanda@cvm.org.