Our Crowdfunding Groups
Although this project has ended, if you would still like to make a donation to support the Birmingham Free Clinic, you may always do so here.
The clinic is scheduling numerous sessions for volunteers to help us pack and unpack! Your donation will help us provide food and beverages for dedicated folks!
Many of our patients take public transportation, or we subsidize transport, to their appointments. Your support allows us to book one round trip taxi ride, or provide 20 bus tickets, for our patients who struggle significantly with transportation needs.
Essential supplies like gloves, thermometer covers, tongue depressors, and exam table paper are used in every patient visit. Help keep these small but essential supplies stocked in our patient exam rooms, which will be larger in our new space!
The Clinic will have its first official break room in its history! Please help us outfit this space for our wonderful, dedicated staff and volunteers! This support will help us update our coffee and tea machine, and stock snacks, coffee, and beverages for the people who make it all possible!
In the months leading up to its move, the clinic has created flyers (in multiple languages) that have been given to all patients with their After Visit Summary. These have information about the new location (with a neighborhood map and photo, parking options, and bus routes). Additionally, not all patients the clinic serves have reliable phone access or have appointments too far out to have received a flyer during their appointment, so we created post card versions that will be mailed to all patients and some partners, and other key collaborators to alert them to the new location.
Since the pandemic, Birmingham has seen a significant increase in the number of patients with chronic disease, particularly insulin-dependent diabetic patients. As a result, the program will be ordering a larger refrigerator for its pharmacy to help accommodate, and properly store, any insulin and biological medications the program obtains from the Pharmaceutical Assistance Programs.
One of the most significant expenses the program/clinic will incur is for physical moving company costs as well as new, ADA Compliant, and required, signage throughout its new location.
