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25 Ways That Your Group
Or Organization Can Help Support
The Adaptive Riding Institute |
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Your members
could hold a fund raising event to benefit the Adaptive Riding Institute such as a
bake sale, car wash, rummage sale, 10k walk or run, spaghetti dinner,
pancake feed, trail ride, tack sale, etc...
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Sponsor a
scholarship to enable a low income disabled rider to take riding lessons
for a month for $60.00.
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Fund a
scholarship for a low income disabled rider to go on one of the summer
trips for $100.00 - $400.00.
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Help buy the
ranch for the Adaptive Riding Institute by "purchasing" a tract of land
for $25.00 - $300.00.
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Help defray the
cast of feed by donating grass hay, alfalfa hay, COB, or Equine Seniof
feed.
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Sponsor a horse
for whatever period of time you can, one season ( spring, summer, fall,
winter ) for $250.00, six months for $500.00 or a year for $1,000.00.
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Donate new or
used tack and equipment, i.e. saddles, bridles, horse blankets, saddle
pads, etc...
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Contribute to
the Wagon project to fund the building of a fully accessible wagon for
use by people whose disabilities make it too difficult for them to ride.
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Donate office
supplies such as white or colored copier paper, ink cartridges for our
ink jet printers, blank IBM formatted 3.5" diskettes, Mita copier
toner cartridges, blank video tapes, etc...
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Encourage
members and friends who are interested in riding to patronize our Silver
Falls Park Horse Rental Concession, a major
source of our funding.
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Let the Adaptive Riding Institute use your winter pasturage for our horses to save on
winter feeding costs.
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Sign up for
our mailing list to receive notice of fund raising events such as poker
rides, auctions, trail rides, Christmas Gift Wrapping, etc. and
patronize those you can.
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Become a
member of the Adaptive Riding Institute individually or as a club at the level that
you feel most comfortable with $25-.00 Individual or Family Membership,
$50.00 Contributing Membership, $100.00 Supporting Membership, $500.00
Sustaining Membership, $1000.00 Benefactor.
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Volunteer your
skills and labor to help with large projects - building winter shelters,
mending fences, building hay storage, repairing arena roof, building
additional stalls,
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Donate
building supplies for large projects, repairs and general maintenance
trails, etc. dimensional lumber, sheet goods, cement, loads of gravel,
metal roofing etc..
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Persuade a member or friend
who is a CPA to do and audit of our books so we can apply for larger
grants.
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Volunteer your office
skills in your spare time to help with responding to request for
information, correspondence, filing, photocopying, stapling, fundraising
projects, news letter mailings, etc.
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Volunteer your members'
professional skills or those of their companies to help the Adaptive Riding Institute
with a special project or ongoing operations.
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Place a donation jar in
your members' offices or places of business with proceeds to go to
the Adaptive Riding Institute (collection jars available upon request)
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Contribute a service or
item to be sold at our annual fundraising auction such as a trip, hot
air balloon ride, use of a time share, dinner at a local restaurant,
manicure, tanning booth time, gift certificate, hair styling, lawn
maintenance, photo session, etc.
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Club members with horse
experience can volunteer their spare time to help with regular horse
care, mucking out stalls, exercising horses, grooming, worming,
vaccinations, feeding, etc.
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Use your members' grant
writing, marketing, and fundraising skills to help the Adaptive Riding Institute broaden
their community support.
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Spread the word about our
services. Tell anyone you know in your club or community with a
disability and an interest in horseback riding. Help us get coverage of the
Adaptive Riding Institute in your local newspaper.
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Your members can help out
at the ranch, on trips, or at special events-sign up for training as
Adaptive Riding Institute volunteers.
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Ask us about other
ways of helping with ongoing projects, current wish list items we need,
and a variety of special one-time events and projects.
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