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Volunteering, Part I
At Horse and Buddy, as is the case at many nonprofit organizations, volunteers are critical to our success. For every rider on a horse, we have from 1 to 3 volunteers on the ground making sure our lessons are as safe and effective as possible. Our volunteers come from all sorts of places – high…
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Therapeutic Riding at Horse and Buddy
First of all, my apologies for missing a month! It turns out the gala and some personal things were more all consuming than normal, and I did not get our blog done. Which is ridiculous, since I have a wonderful guest blogger! Our own Program Coordinator, Laura Luster, along with her horse, Grace, write about…
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Sequins and Spurs
https://www.horseandbuddy.org/gala As we sink knee deep into planning our 17th annual gala, I thought it might be fun to share some gala highlights. A few years after Horse and Buddy began, and only a year or two after we received our 501(c)3 nonprofit status from the IRS, we decided we needed a big, cool fundraiser.…
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The Capital Campaign that wasn’t…
If you read last month’s blog, you already know that Horse and Buddy has never owned our actual land. We own our barn, arena, hay barn, fencing, gazebo, and a bunch of horses, but we did not own our dirt. That was never really an issue, as our land owners were fabulous, but as we…