Six commitments. Each one is written so that you could catch us breaking it, which is the only kind of value statement worth publishing.
1. Say the checkable thing
Where a claim has a document behind it, name the document. This site states the EIN, the exemption date, the classification section and the PSO number, because a reader who wants to verify should not have to ask us for permission to do so. The record →
2. Do not ask for what you do not need
As of August 2026, the foundation is funded entirely by its founder. That is why there is no giving apparatus on this site. It is also why the contact form asks for four things and stores four things.
3. Go where the person is
A service that requires the recipient to already be organized, housed, insured and mobile is a service for people who were going to be fine. Valor Medica’s entire delivery model is this value expressed as logistics.
4. Watch the thing nobody watches
The failures that hurt people most reliably are the boring ones: the corridor nobody walks, the therapy nobody monitors, the building nobody reads. All three programs are built on the premise that attention itself is the intervention.
5. Keep the walls up
CareGuard’s patient safety work product is protected by federal law. Valor Medica holds protected health information. Neither flows to the foundation because the foundation is the parent, and neither flows to a supporter because they gave. Where the walls are →
6. Do not upgrade the claim
Street medicine here means basic first aid taken into camps — interceptive care that stops small problems becoming emergencies. It is not a mobile clinic and we do not call it one. Listed by AHRQ is not endorsed by AHRQ. Founder is not chairman. The temptation to round every description upward is constant and it is the fastest way for a nonprofit to become untrustworthy.
What these are not
They are not aspirations. Every one of them is a rule that has already cost this organization something — a claim not made, a page not built, a form field not added. A value that has never been inconvenient is a slogan.
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