Craig Walker’s latest venture is helping out some of the most disadvantaged in our society as his new company Grand Central has started offering free voice mailboxes to the homeless in San Francisco. Walker was the CEO of Dialpad, which was purchased by Yahoo! last year, and while his new company Grand Central isn’t yet talking about what their planned commercial service is going to be, they are certainly garnering some positive attention by offering this free, life-long service that can help homeless people get reconnected into society. Much like the Pulver/Evslin petition asking for communications providers to provide universal voice mail in disaster situations, Walker’s company is making good use of the fact that the cost of providing voice mail services has dropped to an all-time low.

Walker is also blogging about the project:

Even though they may not have much else, they now have a communications identity they own and can use on job applications, with medical clinics, for friends, family…etc. The clients were great and it was really amazing to realize how powerful something as simple as a basic communications identity could be. We’re really looking forward to the next event in June, but the impact that this experience had on all of us at GrandCentral won’t be soon forgotten.

(Thanks Jeffy!)