Mountain Bear Fan Club is a nonprofit organization which provides teddy bears to children of all ages, where love, solace and comfort can make a difference. Our bears are given to sick, injured, lonely or traumatized children and the forgotten elderly.  Teddy bears do make a difference.

 Mountain Bear Fan Club was founded in 1991 by Toni Lagunoff when she gathered seven of her friends to share how teddy bears comfort and help people smile during trying times.

 Mountain Bear Fan Club distributes over 10,000 stuffed animals annually.  The recipients of our “gifting” include hospitals, social service agencies, sheriff and fire departments, the CHP and local service clubs, all who help deliver the animals to those in need  of a hug. 

 Mountain Bear Fan Club is a nonprofit USA IRS tax-exempt 501 (C) 3 corporation and donations are tax deductible.

Mountain Bear Fan Club is a den of Good Bears of the World, an international organization that operates by this ideal: to ease loneliness and inspire love and compassion through gifts of teddy bears.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

 

There are three ways you can help Mountain Bear Fan Club:

 

Make a cash donation to the den to purchase bears. Donors will receive a receipt for their records.

 

Donate new or previously loved stuffed animals, any number is welcomed and appreciated. Call for pick up or delivery information. Donors will receive a receipt for their records.

 

Join the den. Get involved and see what we do.  We meet for lunch on the third Thursday of each month at local restaurants. See “Club Meetings in the Sierra Star Newspaper or call us for time and location. Membership Dues is $30.00 per year.


To join, click here to get a form to fill out and mail in with your payment.

GIFTING

 Mountain Bear Fan Club gifts more than 10,000 stuffed animals annually to: 

• Ambulances
• Breakfast with Santa
• Cancer Centers
• CHP
• Children’s Hospital of Central  California
• Community Hospital of Fresno and Clovis
• ELKS Lodge
• Fire & Sheriff’s Departments
• Foster Care
• Helping Hands
• John C Fremont Hospital
• Local Dentists
• Local Veterinary Hospitals
• Nancy Hinds Hospice
• Rotary Clubs
• Silent Sleigh of Fresno
• Urgent Care
• Victim Services