Re: Charity/Benefit events

["Linda Van Ceylon" <equine_athletes@hotmail.com>]

Solis, Suzanne (LGE-AT) wrote:
 > 
 > Has anyone on this list participated in or sponsored an endurance
 > related event to raise money for a charity? <SNIP> we rode our horses 
and
 > collected pledges from friends and family for each mile we rode. All 
the
 > money was donated to some equestrian research project

Suzanne,

Some committees I helped found, including one called Northern Colorado 
Endurance Riders (NCER), put on numerous benefit events over the years.  
Starting in 1988, our favorite charity was Front Range Exceptional 
Equestrians, a riding program for physically/mentally challenged youth.  
We used various formats for actually collecting the funds to donate.  
ie, pledges, raffles, calcuttas, just donating profit.  These methods 
all worked to some extent or another.  However, the committee 
invironment is helpful in taking on these sorts of endeavors, because 
some members will have specific fund raising tasks.

We did not raise huge amounts for this charity, but enough to do some 
good.  The best profit years were ones when we could get members of the 
charity's board to work on our fund raising committee.  This created a 
great pool of human rescourse for the entire event!

NCER is currently inactive.  But, Brad Patterson, who took over the 
rides we established, still donates some ride $ for charity.

  

Lindavan, Buhni, Sunny, Fiddler, Rabbit & Rain Maker
Equine Athletes <equine_athletes@hotmail.com>
2921 Moore Lane, Fort Collins, CO  80526
970-226-1099


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