Joe Joe Bear Foundation
Comforting kids one bear at a time
Mission
Around the clock comfort is offered to children in the form of a teddy bear; educational resources and support for their family to get information they need during the challenging time of caring for their sick child.
Ruling year
2009
Executive Director
Jeanette Maurer
Main address
1846 Snake River Rd. Ste B Ste B
Katy, TX 77449 USA
EIN
26-4779761
NTEE code
Children's and Youth Services (P30)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Joe Joe Bear Foundation provides children with life threatening illnesses teddy bears. Since 2009 the foundation has gifted over 40,000 bears to children with a life threatening illness. Many people donate money to cancer research but not to the emotional well being of the patient. A Study by VU University has shown that hugging an inanimate object like a teddy bear can reduces fear and anxiety and allows the body to focus on healing. The Foundation, in 2019 partnered with Texas Children’s Hospital to create an online Resource Center for families navigating the difficulties of being critically ill, raising a sick child or mourning the loss of a child. Hospital staff and volunteers are sharing this online resource in with the families to assist them in getting information they need. Affiliate hospitals across the country have utilized the program, and since 2019, the education program has served more than 20,000 families. The foundation is not aware of any similar online.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Teddy Bears
The Joe Joe Bear Foundation is a Texas-based non-profit organization focused on delivering around the clock comfort for children facing life threatening illness by providing them with new teddy bears. The Foundation provides teddy bears to 10 Greater Houston area hospitals and hospices. In the past 12 years over 36,000 bears have been given to critically ill children.
Educational Resource Center
Providing educational resources for parents and caregivers. It has all the information parents are looking for in one place online. There is information also for the child and siblings.
Online Support Group
Joe Joe Bear Foundation provides an online support group for parents and caregivers so they can talk to other parents about hat they are going through. The group is moderated by a licensed Counselor.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Average number of service recipients per month
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Teddy Bears
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Each month hospitals on a list are given a set number of bears for the sick children. The goal is to keep adding more hospitals and providing more bears.
The number of Teddy Bears given to children each year.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Teddy Bears
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is the total number of bears given and children served each year.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The goal is to provide comfort to as many children as possible and provide a friend for them by gifting these critically ill children a new teddy bear.
Provide educational resources through the online platform for families nationwide. Currently 2,500 caregivers utilize the website each month and plan to increase that number exponentially.
Offer online support for the families so the parents can reduce their stress while taking care of their sick child.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Increase the foundations presents on social media, writing more grants, increasing the number of recurring donations monthly and having more profitable fundraisers.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The foundation is increasing the size of the board of directors and adding more people to committees and expanding the dynamics and skills of everyone involved. By doing this the foundation will be able to meet and exceed our current goals for 2022.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The number one goal since inception was to be able to have our own bears made with a tee shirt to give to the kids. In 2016 we met that goal and were able to purchase 5,000 bear with tee shirts and tagged with our special message. Since 2009over 40,000 bears have been given to critically ill children.
The Foundation added an Educational Resource Center on the website for the parents and caregivers. The foundation partnered with Texas Children's Hospital to create this program.
In December of 2020 an online Support Group was added for patents to get the support they need.
The future plans are to keep expanding the current programs. Keep listening to the families and adding more programs as needed. Plans to expand out of Texas and across the county.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Programs were added
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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Joe Joe Bear Foundation
Board of directorsas of 03/29/2022
Mr. Clint Brinkley
Albert Maurer
Bob McAuliffe
Tayler Whitehead
Jeanette Maurer
Joe Joe Bear Foundation
John Casidy
Terra Fontenote-Beard
Steven Walton
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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