DISCLAIMER: These posts contain hints, tips and ideas from folks that have had some experiences dealing with this. It is NOT meant to be legal advice here - just related experiences. Please consult with a reputable professional if necessary. Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:30:24 -0600 (MDT) To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: Pat Calloway Subject: EQ-ResQ: Wish Lists & Sponsorships The Dog Rescue list is having a bit of a discussion on wish lists posted on their sites and I wondered how many of you might be using something similar on your equine rescue sites and how successful it is. I know I've seen them on a few rescue pages. To illustrate, here are a few of the dog rescue wish list links: http://www.geocities.com/sleddogrescue/wish.htm http://www.tribeagles.org/contribute.html - this one uses PayPal which I think a few of you have mentioned. http://home.hiwaay.net/~bar/strnasponsor.html - this one mentions looking for a specific book which they have found useful to adoptors - do any of you provide a specific book when you place a horse? http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/9703/WishList.html How about sponsorship of a particular horse? United Pegasus Foundation and many others do this. Although a lot of folks can't swing $150-250 a month as individuals, groups like TURF (http://www.crt-stable.com/turf) band together to do it. Just skimming through rescue links, I could only find one wish list easily and it was on Double D's site: http://www.ddrescue.org/wish.html Pat Calloway, Equine Rescue Listowner epona@concentric.net (AZ) http://www.crt-stable.com/equinerescue ========== Pat Calloway ====== To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: "Sharon Mckelvey" Subject: Re: EQ-ResQ: Wish Lists & Sponsorships Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:27:02 -0400 I know that Wind Ridge Farm Equine Sanctuary uses a wish list both on the web page and in their newsletter and it has been very successful. They just had a small front end loader, and enough paint to paint the buildings donated due to it. Also, they have sponsorships for their horses since they do not adopt out and they have 29 horses altogether. They have 67 people sponsoring horses (some horses are sponsored by more than one person). They are a well organized group which also offers membership. Membership entitles them to receive the newsletter, invitations to special events and a few other small incentives. I do their web page for them and their newsletter is on the web page, as well as membership information and pictures of all the horses. Anyone wishing to receive their newsletter can just send an email to them and they will put you on the mailing list. Sharon McKelvey, webmistress Rainbow Acres Horse Rescue http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/7321/ Wind Ridge Farm Equine Sanctuary http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Fair/9441/ ========== "Sharon Mckelvey" ====== Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:50:27 -0700 (MST) To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: Pat Calloway Subject: EQ-ResQ: Fundraising - Angel Trees Ran across mention on a BB of a rescue doing a horse angel tree in a feed store and thought I'd throw that idea out here for those of you that might be interested. Didn't sound like it was like the human angel trees where the people have a wish list and/or ages and sizes of the children in the family. From what they were saying, sounded like people were buying ornaments off the tree and the proceeds went to the rescue. The ornaments were horsey motif (of course) and one of the things suggested was decorated wooden horseshoes. You can buy such things in Michaels or other craft stores and paint or decorate them. Someone wrote that they'd decorated a grapevine wreath with horse related items. Not sure if that was just for their own personal use or they'd used it in fundraising, but it would be an idea for a silent auction if someone was creative enough to make one up either for Christmas or just for year round. I used to have a bunch of fake apples that I used to decorate a tree. Don't think I have them anymore though. I also ran across a 'feed tub' at Cost Plus (import store) that's small enough to use with stuffed horses the size of beanie babies. Think it was 79-99 cents or so. Paint the horse's name on it or 'oats' or 'happy holidays' or something and there ya go - another Christmasy/holiday decoration/gift. I don't see why you couldn't make tree decorations with horse shoes - especially the lightweight aluminum sort that are common around racetracks. Spray paint 'em green or red and tie a contrasting ribbon on 'em to hang stuff with and voila! Tree decoration. Pat Calloway, Equine Rescue Listowner epona@concentric.net (AZ) http://www.crt-stable.com/equinerescue ========== Pat Calloway ====== To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: Sharon L McKelvey Subject: Re: EQ-ResQ: Fundraising - Angel Trees Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:06:18 -0500 Wind Ridge Farm Equine Sanctuary uses Christmas as one of their biggest fundraiser events of the year. The public is invited to the farm to spend Christmas with the horses. Gary does tours of the farm where the people actually go into the paddocks with the horses (mostly seniors so very gentle) and explains the background on where they came from and how they ended up at the sanctuary. They also put up a Horsey Tree decorated with ornaments to purchase, and have a big craft show that same day, as well as have door prizes, refreshments and a grand prize drawing. The door prizes are free but tickets must be purchased for the grand prize. There is a donation jug put out on a table in the barn so that people who may not buy something will donate anyway. Some of the volunteers collect items and have a garage sale in Gary's garage (his cars are turned out for the day LOL), and naturally there is a used tack sale too. The cutest thing is that on the one wall of the barn there is a stocking hung with each horse's name on it and a small sign that says, sponsor a horse for the holiday. People place donations in the stocking of the horse of their choice. The event is publicized in the local paper, the sanctuary's newsletter and on the radio. It has become an annual event where they have raised over $3,000 for the day. Sharon Mckelvey Webmaster for Wind Ridge Farms and Rainbow Acres ========== Sharon L McKelvey ====== To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: EponaSR Subject: EQ-ResQ: Fundraising - Angel Trees Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:41:57 -0500 One of the local dog/cat rescues here does something similar to this at PetSmart every year. The ornaments are pieces of paper with items that the shelter needs written on them (cat food, dog food, collar, leashes, etc.) Customers select an ornament and take it to the cashier with their purchace. The customer pays the amount of the item listed on the ornament and the store sets that item aside for the rescue. The rescue can then pick the items up from the store. It seems to work out really well, the tree is usually bare by Christmas (all items purchased). It allows the customers to decide how much they can afford to spend (a collar may only be a dollar or two, whereas a case of dog food will be higher) and the rescue determines what their needs are (and don't wind up with 70 collars and no food). Much as I don't like the fact that PetSmart is running small pet suppliers out of business, I must commend them for the amount of charity work that they do around here. Suzan ========== EponaSR ====== To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: keith_wheelis@webtv.net (Keith Wheelis) Subject: EQ-ResQ: Fundraising - calendar Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:21:23 -0600 (CST) Hi everyone. I was in the bookstore the other day, and I saw several calendars with horses on them. I was thinking that that might be a good way for some rescues to raise money.....if you could do one with photos of rescue horses and write a short paragraph about each photo. It might also help to raise awareness about horses in need. The Houston Fire Department has been doing a calendar to raise money for the last few years, and it has been very successful. Initially, I would think that they had to have services donated to offset the cost of producing the calendar, but now that people are aware of it, they make quite a bit of money. Just a thought. Y'all have a happy Thanksgiving!!!! Rae ========== keith_wheelis@webtv.net (Keith Wheelis) ====== To: equinerescue@imagicomm.com From: Jennifer Williams Subject: Re: EQ-ResQ: Fundraising - calendar Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:35:06 -0600 > Hi everyone. I was in the bookstore the other day, and I saw several > calendars with horses on them. I was thinking that that might be a good > way for some rescues to raise money.....if you could do one with photos > of rescue horses and write a short paragraph about each photo. Lone Star Equine Rescue is doing this already. :) We used the first 12 horses we took in, one for each month. We also sold sponsorships of the months to business and individuals. The sponsorships we sold paid for the printing (which we did get at a reduced cost) and then the sales of the calendars will be fundraising for the rescue. We just got them in, but I haven't seen them yet. I have seen the pictures that were used - and some of the pictures were adorable (especially when the horse had been adopted and we got picturs of the horse and adoptive family). It has been a fun project, and I think this will become a permanent/annual fundraiser for us. -- Jennifer Williams, http://www.vanbasti.com/ (coming soon) President, Lone Star Equine Rescue - http://www.lser.org/ ========== Jennifer Williams ====== Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:24:02 -0700 To: equinerescue@mylist.net From: Pat Calloway Subject: EQ-ResQ: Fundraising Workshop Someone had asked about this and had some specific questions, so let's do it again! We've had some nice brainstorming sessions in the past which are archived on the Home Page at: http://pages.prodigy.com/equinerescue/rescarch.htm And I think I may have more fundraiser & other files to add. Maybe this weekend - no promises. One of the folks on the Dog Rescue List is doing a Senior Rescue Calendar as a fundraiser. One of the neat things that she's doing on it is "selling" date squares. You can purchase a square for $3 or 2 for $5 and have anything you like put on it - birthdate of a dog or human or whatever, anniversary, etc, etc. Date square purchase money goes right to the rescue. People also submitted dog photos and bios for the calendar but the date square purchase is different and I haven't seen it done elsewhere. Neat idea! Any other ideas, questions, etc? Pat Calloway, Equine Rescue Listowner epona@concentric.net (AZ) http://pages.prodigy.com/equinerescue/home.htm ========== Pat Calloway ====== DISCLAIMER: These posts contain hints, tips and ideas from folks that have had some experiences dealing with this. It is NOT meant to be legal advice here - just related experiences. Please consult with a reputable professional if necessary.