Our Mission

To build and carry programs that protect people who are easy to overlook.

That is the whole of it, and it is deliberately narrow. The foundation does not try to be a general-purpose charity. It works in three places where the gap between what is supposed to happen and what actually happens is wide, measurable and survivable if someone is watching.

The three gaps


Nobody sees the building

A resident’s family visits on Sunday. An owner reads a quarterly report. Between them is a building where the call light does not reach the bed. CareGuard closes that distance on the record.

Nobody can reach the patient

Medicine assumes an address, a phone and a ride. A veteran sleeping in a car has none of the three and is therefore not a patient, statistically speaking. Valor Medica goes to where the person is.

Nobody is watching the therapy

Long-term opioid therapy is either monitored or it is a hope. IntellaRx exists to make the monitoring real for the people who genuinely need the medication.

How we choose


Three tests, applied before the foundation takes on anything. All three have to pass.

  1. Is the harm specific? Not “health disparities” but a wet floor, a missed dose, an untreated wound.
  2. Is there a reason nobody else is doing it? If a functioning market or a functioning agency already covers it, the foundation is redundant.
  3. Can we tell whether it worked? If the only available measure is activity, the program is not ready.

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What follows from it


Our values

Six commitments, each one written so you could catch us breaking it.

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Who we serve

Nursing home residents and their families, veterans, unhoused neighbors, and people on long-term opioid therapy.

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How we choose our work

The three tests, and two things the foundation has decided not to do.

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