The Spirit Bear Network (SBN)
"Your Power Is In Your Belief"
WWW.SPIRITBEAR.ORG
5387 N. Ridge Spring Place. Tucson, AZ 85749
886.215.9136 -- JLP@SPIRITBEAR.ORG
Dr. Jerry L. Poore, Founder
The Spirit Bear Network’s purpose is to foster a healthy spirit in people who face a difficult life challenge. SBN promotes healthy living by comforting and encouraging people to embrace the vital energy forces of Strength, Courage, Love, and Harmony. This is accomplished by behavioral education programs and the distribution of a uniquely created stuffed animal named the
Cigam Tirips, Magic Spirit Bear™.
The Spirit Bear Network is a private project of Dr. Jerry Poore.
It is a worldwide endeavor to enrich the lives of people and communities everywhere.
SBN Facts:
SBN is funded by private contributions and by the sale of spirit lifting merchandise such as the Cigam Tirips Spirit Bear and companion products and services.
SBN is staffed on a voluntary basis by the Jerry Poore family. All operating expenses are donated by the staff.
SBN's Dr. Jerry Poore, of Tucson, Arizona, and his family establish the idea of helping others with the creation of the Magic Spirit Bear and named him Cigam Tirips. (Magic Spirit spelled backwards.) It is an unincorporated entity having the name of The Spirit Bear Network.
SBN’s operating focus is concentrated in the three general areas of its Spirit Bear Bank, Home Parties, and ECommerce. SBN’s Spirit Bear Bank provides the Cigam Tirips Spirit Bear to care giving organizations and any people facing life limiting circumstances. Care giving organizations use SBN’s spirit lifting products to further their therapeutic efforts for use within their programs to lift the spirits and encourage their constituents. SBN’s unique Home Parties are named Refreshment Parties™ and take spirit-lifting to a person-to-person grass roots level. SBN’s Ecommerce includes efforts in utilizing the technology of the world-wide-web in furthering a branching out to a worldwide network.
SBN provides community outreach through various life enriching support groups, the distribution of the Cigam Tirips Spirit Bear, Home Refreshment Parties, fund raising charity golf tournaments, educational service through public workshops, seminars, and inspirational talks, through continued research seeking comforting life enrichment ideas, services, and products, and write articles and papers relevant to spirit lifting, comfort, hope, encouragement and inspiration.
SBN has distributed over 7,000 Spirit Bears to people in the USA, Sweden, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and France. Recipients include hospice organizations, hospitals, substance abuse recovery programs, funeral homes, business corporations, assisted living and end-of-life care institutions, child neglect and abuse groups, natural disaster relief, school children and church groups, other care giving organizations, and the general public.
SBN’s criteria for distribution of the Spirit Bear are: ●Anyone can buy a bear for themselves or for someone else they would like to comfort or encourage; ●The bears are offered with the idea that they will be given as a gift of spirit lifting; ●An emphasis must be given to the unique meaning and purpose of the Spirit Bear as a spirit lifter rather than just a stuffed animal or toy, including its connection to the Kermode Bear, an endangered species of Black Bears; ●People receiving the bears must know that there is a special purpose beyond the simple receipt of a bear and that they have been connected to others who care and may have similar circumstances; in effect they should feel very special, comforted, and encouraged; ●The Cigam Tirips Spirit Bear is for harmony and spirit lifting of the world’s population.
SBN desires to establish a “Cigam Tirips Magic Spirit Bear” annual award for excellence that honors individuals and organizations for their spirit lifting contributions toward promoting and utilizing the vital energy forces of Strength, Courage, Love, and Harmony. A similar award was presented to John F. Kelly, CEO of Alaska Airlines in 2000. This tradition will be continued in 2007 with the announcement, in November, of the Spirit Bear Humanitarian Achievement Award.
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