Voice-Mail Charity Distributes Alerts

March 12, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute

Community Voice Mail — a charity in Seattle that provides free voice mail in 46 cities to people who are homeless, fleeing domestic abuse, or otherwise do not have phone service — teamed up with three federal agencies to distribute information about the recent salmonella outbreak and recall of products containing peanuts.

The organization sent a message to clients that described the symptoms of salmonella, outlined what kind of products were and were not on the recall list, and provided the phone number for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s public information hotline.

For more information: Go to http://www.cvm.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.