America's Only Independent Care Partner Advocacy Platform

THE SYSTEM
FAILED YOU.
WE DID NOT.

Fifty-five million Americans are managing someone else's chronic illness right now — without legal protection, without compensation, without a platform built specifically for them. Until this one. Every chronic illness. Every care partner. Zero pharmaceutical conflicts.

55M
Care partners served
$600B
Unpaid annual labor
$0
Pharma funding — ever
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Care Partners Demand Recognition Healthcare Is a Human Right Not a Checklist — A Real Response Zero Pharmaceutical Funding · Ever 55 Million Care Partners · Every Chronic Illness Federal Law In Your Hands Honor Our Advocates Care Partners Demand Recognition Healthcare Is a Human Right Not a Checklist — A Real Response Zero Pharmaceutical Funding · Ever 55 Million Care Partners · Every Chronic Illness Federal Law In Your Hands Honor Our Advocates
55MCare partners in America
$600BUnpaid annual labor value
$0Pharma funding received
100%Independent & unfiltered
The Platform

Tools built because
no one else would build them.

Every feature exists because a care partner needed it and it didn't exist. Not a link list. Not a resource page. Operational tools that put federal law directly in your hands — across every chronic illness.

Jeff and Marie Parke — Founders
Who We Are

Built by a recipient.
Inspired by his care partner.

Jeff Parke is a three-time kidney transplant recipient and clinical research professional. Marie Parke is the care partner who held everything together through three transplants — legally required, never compensated, never protected. Together they built the platform that was missing.

Not because they wanted to. Because it did not exist.

"We take no pharmaceutical money. We name the institutions. We close the loop — not with a wellness score, but with a filed complaint and a federal record the institution is legally required to respond to."

Jeff Parke · Executive Director · Cold Ischemia Foundation
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Cold Truth Podcast & Video

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The Invisible Workforce Holding Transplant Medicine Together
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Unpaid Infrastructure — Survival
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Care Partner PSA
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Care Partner Burden
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The Notice of Default
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Independence Pledge — Permanent & Non-Negotiable. Cold Ischemia Foundation will never accept funding from pharmaceutical companies, dialysis corporations, medical device manufacturers, hospital systems, or insurance companies. Our independence is not a feature. It is the product.

STOP DOING THIS ALONE.

America's only independent care partner advocacy platform. Every chronic illness. No wellness quiz. No self-assessment score. Just the tools, the law, and the people who built this because they lived it.

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