THE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Established in 1997, the Grace Children’s Foundation (GCF) is a New York City based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving lives through its Children’s Resource Exchange (CRE) model—connecting children in need with medical professionals and essential nonclinical resources.
About This Cause
NEARLY THREE DECADES ON THE FRONT LINE Since 1997, the Grace Children’s Foundation (GCF) has been connecting children in need to pro bono and subsidized medical care and essential nonclinical resources through its case-by-case model. This individual based work lays bare the critical problem that there are millions of children who have little or no access to medical resources or continuous care. In order to address this health inequity, GCF has partnered with a team of innovators at Microsoft, collaborating with Microsoft Tech for Social Impact/Microsoft Philanthropies—to evolve and scale up the existing model into the Children’s Resource Exchange (CRE). The CRE is an emerging state of the art pediatric healthcare service and a centerpiece for a global health strategy that will help save the lives of children worldwide…scaling the solution to the magnitude of the problem. CHILDREN’S RESOURCE EXCHANGE—IN ACTION There is an urgent need for collaboration, communication and connectivity in the pediatric healthcare sector for children and their advocates who are unable to pay for medical expertise and ancillary resources essential to their wellbeing. The CRE’s unique integration of human conscientiousness and technology will accelerate access to vital healthcare resources through a digital platform, leveraging its network of care, expertise and funding. GCF and its partners in healing are collaborating to modernize the process of coordinating care between medical professionals and others who play an instrumental role in providing full circle access for children in need. The CRE digital service will facilitate the coordination of resources for children suffering from debilitating but treatable diseases, traumatic injuries, congenital birth anomalies and mental health conditions. In time, as case information increases, AI automated processes will be able to analyze the needs of children, find patterns across similar past cases, summarize each child's story and target messages to particular pediatric specialists, aiding physicians in providing diagnostics and treatments, all within a secure compliant platform. These processes will be accelerated through the use of generative AI (GenAI) in the initial version of the application, and ultimately the processes themselves can be orchestrated by Agentic AI. In these future processes, AI agents will play general orchestration roles (e.g. working tirelessly to perform deep research on a child's case, and then outlining the steps that need to be taken to help them). Then, more specialized agent roles will take on specific laborious tasks and other steps to help with each component of a child’s case. Relationship building with children, caregivers, and partners-in-healing will continue to be critical to the function of these technologies, even as they scale the manual steps within the processes. The CRE platform aims to be the go-to resource for pediatric healthcare—dedicated to children who wait. A CONNECTED DIGITAL PLATFORM—Accelerating Access to Pediatric Healthcare SCALING THE SOLUTION WITH PARTNERS IN HEALING In a call to action to enrich the CRE database of medical professionals who care for children with medical, surgical and rehabilitative needs, the Grace Children’s Foundation has partnered with WebMD and Medscape Pediatrics, recruiting from their online network of five million medical clinicians and over 50,000 active pediatricians. The CRE digital platform will also coordinate nonclinical resources with GCF’s partners in healing—healthcare providers, hospitals, nonprofits, academic institutions, cancer centers, foundations, corporations and individuals—to identify and access clinical trials, cutting-edge treatments, and specialized care and the social determinants of health necessary to support the child. As primary users, medical personnel will have accelerated access to information relating to their patients’ needs, enabling trusted coordination with others on the platform. PROTECTING AND SHARING DATA In a transformative step towards achieving large-scale facilitation of pediatric care coordination, GCF has partnered with IneHealth, integrating its cloud service, Idonia, into the CRE platform. Idonia’s HIPAA compliant software simplifies access to case information for medical professionals and patients alike and stores and shares medical records and case-related materials from physician to physician in real time. The software protects sensitive patient data and ensures that access is restricted to medical professionals and CRE users directly involved in patient care. Idonia includes a customized feature designed for GCF allowing patients to access their confidential medical records over their lifetime.