News & Events
September 2022 Client Services Update
A new clinic manager and volunteer and community engagement manager joined our team in early 2022, filling positions that had become vacant during the pandemic. Since then, we’ve increased the number of new client intakes and orientations, implemented a texting service to support scheduling client
Welcoming and Training New Volunteers
CMC has held three full-day volunteer training workshops so far this year! Our last one was videotaped to create on-demand modules to on-board future volunteers more quickly. Dedicated volunteers make it possible for Charlotte Maxwell Clinic to provide complementary integrative care at no charge to
A CMC Volunteer in the News!
This summer, Nancy Chang, one of CMC’s longtime volunteers who delivers an average of 20 of her delicious soups monthly for our clients at Charlotte Maxwell Clinic, was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Nancy founded her company Purpose and Hope when she saw first-hand
Golden State Warriors Night with CMC!
Charlotte Maxwell Clinic is excited to partner with the seven time NBA champions, our Golden State Warriors, for their first ever Cancer Awareness Night on Thursday, October 27, 2022! The Warriors will host the Miami Heat at San Francisco’s Chase Arena, and we invite you
Clinic Update – July 2022
CLINICAL SERVICES We are open and expanding our offerings as we grow! We hired new staff members and reconnected with many clients and volunteers to get back to what we love: Providing holistic and integrative care for underserved women with cancer. We currently offer in-person
Happy 90th Birthday, Ms. Charlotte Maxwell!
Born on this day in 1932, Charlotte was a social worker from Buffalo, New York who came to California to attend graduate school in public health at UC Berkeley during the late 1960’s. According to longtime friend Jean Morton, Charlotte was always supportive of women’s
It’s Volunteer Appreciation Month!
You are the heart of our mission and we really appreciate all you do.
Integrative Care With Earth Medicine
CMC honors the living Earth and its natural environment. We recognize that many of the complementary therapies that make up integrative care are forms of medicine from the Earth. For example, the Earth is infused with energy from the Sun. Similarly, there are subtle energies
CMC Welcomes New Volunteer & Community Engagement Manager
CMC is proud to announce the addition of another new teammate! Introducing Lisa Hartfield, our Volunteer and Community Engagement Manager. Lisa jumped right into her job by reimagining and rebooting our Zoom Wellness Program, as well as instigating our next New Volunteer Training on May
CMC Welcomes New Clinic Manager
The Year of the Tiger got off to a roaring start at the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic, as we began hiring and training new staff. We are happy to announce the arrival of our new Clinic Manager, Dr. Nadia Moredo, L.Ac., DTCM. Nadia has been a
2022 Women’s History Month
Did you know that the inception of National Women’s History Month started right in our own backyard of Sonoma County? According to the National Women’s History Alliance, in 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women initiated Women’s
CMC’s 30th Anniversary Event on Oct. 28
Charlotte Maxwell Clinic (CMC), the Oakland, CA-based nonprofit women’s clinic, is celebrating 30 years of providing free access to compassionate integrative care, including acupuncture, herbs, body work, homeopathy, guided imagery, and nutrition education, for low-income women with cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area. A
StoryCorps Series
During the summer of 2020, CMC had the unique opportunity to partner with StoryCorps, whose mission is “to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.” Via their platform, we were able to record six different stories from our community. What a wonderful honor to have our voices heard, recorded, and housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress!
EPISODE 6: Clients in Conversation
"Charlotte Maxwell is just like the respite from the harm."
EPISODE 5: A client-volunteer conversation
“You gave me that opportunity. You know, to balance myself.”
EPISODE 4: CMC staff share their perspectives
“This is a type of medicine that a lot of people can’t access because it’s not affordable and we haven’t figured out, as a society, how to make this broadly accessible. But Charlotte Maxwell has figured that out.”
EPISODE 3: A client-staff conversation
“The volunteers…are wonderful. I appreciate the time that they give us. They treat us with respect…with such gentleness, with such compassion; I just look forward to it.”
EPISODE 2: A client-staff conversation
“When you walk in the door… whatever’s going on in your life, good or bad, it’s just like the weight has been lifted off of you because you know that you’re in good hands.”
EPISODE 1: Founders in conversation
“I mean, not tooting our own horn, but we were so ahead of our time.”
