Remember the Battle Bear that is made by recovering veterans supported by S.O. Tech? The Battle Bear is a project to help create a bond between the child and the deployed parent by sending the bear to the recipient with the photo of the deployed holding the bear with a matching uniform and unit patch. Now, they want the Battle Bear challenge you in helping the world become a better place.

If you like the idea, better move quickly as time is running out.

The Green Vets Los Angeles have launched the Challenge Bear on Kickstarter. With your help, you can help raise funds to have the Challenge Bear sent out to help challenge others in doing something good --- locally, nationally, and even globally. How does this work? Here’s a short description:

When you give this bear to a young person, you give a challenge – both from yourself, and from the Veterans who crafted them.  This is more than a teddy bear, it’s a companion on your journey to make the world a better place.  This durable, belt or pack mountable bear is there to inspire you the whole way, and to join you in your celebratory photographs of your accomplishments.  These photos are the key to continuing the challenge, when you upload them to our Facebook page or the social media page of your choosing as you challenge your friends!

If it sounds something like the Ice Bucket Challenge, it is indeed helping you move and show to the world with the Challenge Bear what you have been doing. Click here to see some of those who are already doing their part.

Convinced that the project is worth your support? If you are, then you have to move quickly. With just less than a week to go, the project only has raised over US$4,000 of a target of US$12,000. Projects on Kickstarter get funded if and only if they achieve their target goals. This means that the Challenge Bear Project is in danger of not getting funded as it's still below the halfway mark of its target funding with just a few days remaining.

Share the project to your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, YouTube or whatever social media you're active in. Don’t forget also to choose any of the options to fund it, including getting the limited edition Multicam Challenge Bear.

Supporting the Challenge Bear, you hit three things: helping recovering veterans to have their own income, making someone happy with a Challenge Bear, and helping make the world a better place. Now that’s something to really feel good about.