Funding Priorities

Thank you for your interest in helping children succeed with LEAD with Horses. Your support help kids to develop life skills and build resilience through hands-on activities with horses.

Foster children, military families, and other youth experiencing emotional distress find LEAD with Horses to be a safe haven, a welcoming space in an uncertain world. The equine-assisted counseling and education we provide has always been beneficial. In an age of social distancing, isolation, and economic hardship, it has proven to be even more valuable.

As of 2022, our current funding priorities are:

 1. Program and organizational support to deliver quality equine assisted education and counseling programs: Support “positive change through horses” for the children in our community. We work to ensure kids develop critical life skills through guided activities with horses in a fun, inclusive, and healing environment. Quality and effectiveness are of utmost importance to us at LEAD with Horses. It is critical we have the right people and beneficial curriculum to deliver the best trauma-informed programs to our clients.

2. Equipment and Supplies: caring for our horses involves caring for their space. We are in need of:

• Muck carts
• Barn and classroom supplies
• Tractor and accessories/attachments
• Industrial barn vacuum

3. A place of our own: While we have a wonderful arrangement with the property owners of our current facility, LEAD with Horses has a long-term goal of owning our own facility. We have a vision of providing more services and assistance in a single location. Horses would remain at the heart of the program.

Contact us to learn more about our vision to better serve our community.

If you have other ways you can lend a hand or fund a program, we'd love to hear from you.