About Us

The Ace Bailey Children’s Foundation was established in memory of Garnet “Ace” Bailey who was killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Ace’s family has created the Foundation to honor his memory and to perpetuate his deep caring for the happiness of children.

Our Mission

The Ace Bailey Children’s Foundation focuses on the well being of hospitalized children through the establishment and improvement of hospital programs, environments and professional services that reduce the stress of hospitalization for newborns, children and their families. The Floating Hospital for Children, part of Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, is the primary recipient of our funding.

Ace's Place

The Foundation’s first major project at the Floating Hospital for Children was the creation of Ace's Place, a 6,500 square- foot play center designed to help to reduce the stress of hospitalization. Ace’s Place offers a warm, fun and comforting environment to play, to make friends with other hospitalized kids and to visit with family members away from the clinical environment of their rooms. Offering this safe and fun environment is a particularly apt way of honoring Ace’s love of children and extending his warm joyful spirit to them in their struggle to heal.

Current Projects

At present the Foundation is raising money to support our “Family Care Project” in the Floating Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The Floating’s NICU achieves some of the best outcomes in the country for high-risk newborns. However a child’s time in the NICU can be stressful for new parents. Through our “Family Care Project” we are renovating and updating the NICU to provide a comfortable and soothing space for families to bond with their hospitalized babies. The foundation is renovating two family areas: a “Family Room” with a kitchenette, comfortable seating and a TV and DVD and a “Quiet Room” with a calm and peaceful atmosphere and relaxed seating for meeting with medical staff, for various teaching sessions for parents and for a quiet place to relax. The foundation will also update and brighten the patient areas and make them feel and appear less clinical. This will include purchasing new recliners and gliders for parents to cuddle, rock and feed their babies; new task chairs for nursing staff; warm colored flooring, fresh window treatments, and brightly colored cubicle curtains and paint that will make for a cheerier atmosphere. Providing more functional, comfortable and brighter environments will help to reduce stress for parents, which in turn will help them to help their babies grow and heal faster. We’re sure that this would make Ace smile because he loved babies. Click here to view photo gallery.

Next Projects


Upon completion of the NICU “Family Care Project” the Ace Bailey Children’s Foundation will be bringing “Ace’s Place” to the Tufts-New England Medical Center’s Pediatric Emergency Department (PED). We are raising funds to build two play areas in the new PED; one in the waiting area and one inside the treatment area. There, both patients and their siblings can play under the supervision of the hospital’s Child Life Specialists. Play reduces the stress for children when an unusual or traumatic event is occurring and frees parents to speak with medical staff and make decisions concerning their child’s care.

Other Past Projects

With the proceeds raised by our 2004 Boston Marathon Team the Foundation split the cost (with the Kiwanas Pediatric Trauma Center) of a crucial piece of emergency equipment called a “Pedi-Porter Stretcher,” This specialized stretcher was needed for the Floating Hospital’s new Mobile Intensive Care Unit, a rapid response team that transports critically ill children and infants from community hospitals to the specialized care at the Floating. The stretcher is equipped with its own pediatric ventilator for pre-mature and sick infants. This piece of equipment will be directly responsible for saving the lives of children and babies when they are being transported to the Floating Hospital.

Anyone who knew Ace knows that he always made sure that everyone had a nice full tummy of his yummy home cookin’. In this spirit, the Foundation is pleased to have provided the NICU with a much needed and highly specialized breast milk freezer. Now Ace is helping, just a little, to feed all the babies back to good health!

With the proceeds from the Manchester Monarch’s annual Ace Bailey Golf Classic we have provided funding to Catholic Medical Center (CMC) in Manchester, N.H. In 2004 the tournament proceeds went to build and equip two pediatric treatment rooms in the hospital’s new emergency care wing. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 the proceeds went to CMC’s Level II Special Care Nursery. We are very grateful to the Manchester Monarchs, for their continued, generous support of the Foundation in memory of Ace. We are pleased to contribute the funds raised in Manchester, New Hampshire back to CMC, a hospital that serves their community’s sick or injured infants and children.