The door is already open. More people could walk through it.
There is a health center inside this neighborhood that asks for no insurance, asks for no papers, and turns no one away. Plenty of neighbors already know that and already go. More could. That gap — between who uses this and who could — is the whole company.
We are not building a clinic. We are building the walk to one.
kindMANkind hires and trains Canal residents to connect their own neighbors to the care that already exists here — the clinic, the sliding scale, the discounted medicine, the coverage they may still qualify for. The supply was built decades ago. The distribution never was. That is the whole company.
The model is designed to travel. We are piloting it in the Canal District of San Rafael because it is dense, largely immigrant, deeply under-navigated, and small enough to measure honestly. If it works here, it is meant to be copied — free.
None of this is a promise. All of it is the law.
Before you believe anything we say about ourselves, check these. They are true today, without us.
No papers. No insurance. No one turned away.
Marin Community Clinics — the health center inside the Canal — states it plainly: you do not need insurance or U.S. citizenship, no one is turned away, and charges are based on what you can pay.
Not our program. Theirs. Already open.
Federal law requires it
Every federally qualified health center in America is required to serve patients regardless of ability to pay, and to run a sliding fee discount. At the lowest income levels the discount is total.
About half this neighborhood qualifies.
So how many more could go?
Plenty of neighbors already use this clinic. The question is not whether anyone knows — it is how much wider the reach could be, and what is holding the rest back. Believing you need insurance? Fear of walking in? Work hours? We have not proven any of it — so before we ask anyone for money, we are going to ask 30 residents and publish what they say.
Including if the answer ends this.
Three principles
Not slogans. Each is a constraint designed into the model, and each costs us something.
Dignity is paid in money.
Wages are cash — never credits, vouchers, points, or scrip. Help is never conditioned on work; need alone decides aid. Nobody’s paycheck depends on what they collect. If we believe our neighbors are capable adults, we pay them like it and trust them to spend it.
We complement. We don’t compete.
The Canal already has a health center. Building a second would split a small neighborhood and duplicate what works. The gap is not clinics — it is the walk from someone’s door to the clinic’s. We do that walk.
We publish what we find — including when we are wrong.
Our research arm measures outcomes and publishes them either way. Our Form 990 goes up the day we have one. If this does not work, the most useful thing we can do for the next people who try is say so out loud.
There is a deadline, and most people don’t know it.
The renewal cliff
Since January 1, 2026, adults without satisfactory immigration status cannot newly enroll in full-scope Medi-Cal. Those already enrolled keep it — but only if they renew on time. A missed renewal is permanent. They cannot get back in.
The highest-value hour anyone can spend here right now.
Help nobody claims
Drug makers give medication away free to low-income patients, usually without asking immigration status. The applications are long, in English, and take an afternoon. So the medicine sits there and people go without.
The scarce resource is not a program. It is an afternoon.
Trust cannot be hired from outside
An institution can open an office here. It cannot open a door. A neighbor who speaks your language and has been through it can — and that is the one asset this neighborhood already owns outright.
We are not bringing help in. We are putting it on payroll.
What we will not promise you
Other people have promised this neighborhood things. Here is what we will not say.
We will not ask about your immigration status.
Not to help you. Not ever. We do not record it, we do not want it, and we have nothing to give anyone who asks us for it. If you only remember one sentence from this site, make it that one.
We will not promise you a job.
We hire, and we hire from here first — but like every employer in this country, we are required to verify work authorization. We are not going to pretend otherwise to get you in the door. Getting help from us never depends on being able to work for us.
We will not promise you insurance.
We are not an insurance company and we will never pay your medical bills from a pooled fund. What we can do is get you to a clinic that will see you for little or nothing — today, without coverage.
We will not tell anyone your business.
Not a donor, not a landlord, not a neighbor, not an agency. People who fund us see categories and totals — never your name, never your diagnosis, never your receipts.