Make a difference in the inner-city community! Make an impact in the lives of the inner-city community by volunteering at Central Dallas Ministries (CDM). Volunteers are needed to work in the food pantry, free health clinic, CDM mentoring program and ESL classes. For more information about CDM and the volunteer opportunities available, call 214-823-8710, x17.

Missions Trips. Opportunities abound for physicians and medical staff wishing to donate their services and enrich their practice by serving those in need. Want to remember why you became a physician? Fed up with the restraints of managed care? Why not lend your time and expertise to incredibly worthy projects-some are right here in Dallas. Whether you are interested in working in a community charity clinic or you want to offer your time and talent to a medical mission trip, either are just a phone call away. Make a difference to the medically underserved by contacting Connie Webster, DCMS director of community service, at 214-948-3622 or connie@dallas-cms.org.

Dallas Doctors Care provides a list of Dallas area clinics needing medical staff volunteers.

Health Allies is a monthly article in the Dallas Medical Journal featuring a nonprofit health organization in Dallas. Most of these organizations welcome medical staff volunteers as well.