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With your help, we were able to raise more than $35,000 during our spring fundraising campaign, with checks and pledges still arriving. Your participation also enabled us to exceed our #GivingTuesdayNow goal to qualify for an anonymous donor match of $10,000 as part of that total.

A bright light of connection and care
Not only is today #GivingTuesdayNow, May is Mental Health Awareness Month (#NotAlone). Please help CMC continue to be a bright light of connection and care : https://tinyurl.com/CMC-together While shelter-in-place and social distancing practices help protect physical health, isolation is a risk factor for increased anxiety and depression.
A de-LIGHT-ful update!
As you might have heard, May 5th is #GivingTuesdayNow, a day of global generosity, and the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic is participating. We look forward to sharing an exciting update about our spring fundraiser with you, and hope you’ll join us as it really lights up!
Let’s Raise the Energy and Raise the Funds!
Although we’ve temporarily suspended in-clinic services, thanks to the responsive can-do attitude of our amazing volunteers and staff, we’re able to offer some live integrative care sessions via video. We’re certain the clinic will eventually re-open for in-person visits and we’re asking for your support
It’s All About the Blues!
Join us on Sunday, September 15th for the 7th annual Musical Extravaganza to benefit CMC! Bring your friends and your dance moves for an afternoon of fabulous, body groovin’ music at Berkeley’s Freight and Salvage! Wheelchair accessible (call venue in advance for reserved wheelchair space).
6th Annual Musical Extravaganza to Benefit CMC!
Bring your friends and your dance moves and join us for an afternoon of fabulous, body groovin’ music at Berkeley’s Freight and Salvage! Wheelchair accessible (call venue in advance for reserved wheelchair space). Tickets on sale now and will sell out quickly – CLICK HERE
$15,000 Donor Match – please share!
In August, we’re celebrating a generous match from one of CMC’s long-term supporters. Every dollar you donate will be matched, up to $15,000 through the end of the month. Over and over, we hear the same thing from our clients: “(name of hospital) is curing
Thank you! #Giving Tuesday
If you’ve been in the clinic, you’ve seen our gratitude tree on the wall next to the herb pharmacy. Now we want to say thank you from all of us at Charlotte Maxwell Clinic. With your support on #Giving Tuesday, we were able to raise
Lymphedema Workshop
FREE WORKSHOP – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Hours: 1:30pm – 4:30pm Every year, Charlotte Maxwell Clinic conducts a FREE lymphedema workshop that is open to everyone. The workshop is presented by Physical Therapists at UCSF, Betty Smoot, Jet Lee, and Lymphedema Massage Therapist, Betty Siegal.
Integrative Medicine Approach to Palliative Care
Cancer often involves many many difficult symptoms for which western medicine does not have adequate treatment. The University of San Diego’s ethnobiology department has research available on many of the treatments available in integrative medicine. No one is providing the range of services that are offered
5th Annual Musical Extravaganza
5th Annual Musical Extravaganza to Benefit the Charlotte Maxwell Clinic *Pat Wilder (Soulful Blues), *Marcelle Davies Lashley (singer with Toshi Reagon’s Big Lovely Band) *Ruby’s in Town (R&B and Old Soul) Sunday October 1st, 2017 2 PM Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA
Move with Yoga Day
Bring your mat and join us for a day of yoga to benefit our Charlotte Maxwell Clinic! Where: Sports Basement, 2727 Milvia Street, Berkeley. Ample parking is available. Sliding scale: $5-50. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. When: Saturday, August 5,
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."
-Toni
EPISODE 5: A client-volunteer conversation
“You gave me that opportunity. You know, to balance myself.”
-Claudia Castillo
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.”
-India Harville
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.”
-Charlene Davis
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.”
-Kathy Mills
EPISODE 1: Founders in conversation
“I mean, not tooting our own horn, but we were so ahead of our time.”
-Sally Savitz
