Concept design of our first manufactured Heart Bear.
Programs & Partnerships
Belief Bears partners with churches, schools, hospitals, shelters, community organizations, care facilities, and mission-focused groups to bring comfort and encouragement to people experiencing hardship, loss, illness, loneliness, or transition.
Each partnership is shaped around the needs of the people being served. Together, we identify who will receive the bears, how they will be distributed, and how the partnership can create meaningful and lasting impact.
Belief Bears may be provided through sponsorships, donations, fundraising campaigns, community programs, or partner purchases. As our nonprofit social enterprise grows, revenue will also help support healing-centered programs and dignified employment opportunities.
Let’s Build a Program Together
We will work with your organization to understand the need and develop a program designed for the community you serve. If you support people who could benefit from comfort, hope, and a reminder that they are not forgotten, we would love to learn more about your work and explore how we can make an impact together.
Program Opportunities
Belief Bears develops compassionate, faith-centered programs that place tangible reminders of hope into the hands of people experiencing hardship, grief, illness, loneliness, or transition. Programs may be carried out through community partnerships, bear sponsorships, fundraising efforts, and volunteer service.
Bears of Comfort: Belief Bears are provided through trusted organizations serving children, families, patients, seniors, veterans, and others facing difficult circumstances.
Sponsor a Bear: Individuals, churches, businesses, and community groups can sponsor bears for people who need comfort and encouragement. Sponsorships may support a specific organization, health care facilities or community distribution, or Belief Bears outreach initiative.
Healthcare Programs: We work with hospitals, schools, shelters, churches, care facilities, crisis-support organizations, and other community groups to develop meaningful bear-distribution opportunities shaped around the people they serve.
Healing-Centered Programs: As Belief Bears grows, we envision programs that combine the comfort of a bear with supportive activities such as journaling, mentoring, grief encouragement, creative expression, and life-skills development.
Handmade With Purpose: Approved sewing, crochet, artisan, and workforce-development partners may help create special handmade Belief Bears. These collaborations can provide opportunities for service, skill-building, creativity, and future dignified employment.
Partnership Opportunities
Community Distribution Partner: An organization receives Belief Bears for children, families, seniors, patients, veterans, or other individuals experiencing difficult circumstances.
Program Partner: Belief Bears and the organization develop an ongoing initiative that combines bear distribution with mentoring, encouragement, grief support, life-skills development, or another healing-centered activity.
Healthcare Facility Partner: Bears may be funded through individual sponsorships, church or business giving, community campaigns, grants, hospital foundations, or approved fundraising initiatives.
Sponsoring Partner: A business, church, foundation, or individual provides funding so bears can be placed into the hands of people served by a community organization.
Fundraising Partner: Schools, churches, teams, and community groups help raise funds through bear sponsorships or approved sales. A portion of the proceeds may support the partner’s program while also advancing the Belief Bears mission.
Making and Employment Partner: Sewing, crochet, artisan, or workforce-development groups help create approved handmade Belief Bears. These partnerships may include volunteer service, skill development, or future dignified employment opportunities.
How Your Organization Can Participate
Become a distribution partner
Request bears for a specific population
Sponsor a community distribution
Develop an ongoing program with Belief Bears
Host a fundraiser or sponsorship campaign
Participate in an approved bear-making initiative