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Join Our Board: Ride with Pride Seeks Dedicated Community Leaders
Ride with Pride, a Staunton-based nonprofit that provides adaptive horseback riding, is seeking passionate individuals to join our Board of Directors. For over three decades, we’ve been transforming lives by offering equine-assisted activities to children and adults with mental, emotional, physical, and intellectual disabilities.
Our program provides a supportive, community-based environment where the unique bond between horses and participants create powerful opportunities for healing and growth. Our students range in age, from 4 years old and up, teaching adaptive horsemanship skills in a safe environment where clients learn to trust and interact with the world through our carefully selected horses.
We’re looking for individuals with diverse skills and professional backgrounds who are committed to our mission. Whether you bring expertise in fundraising, marketing, nonprofit management, finance, event planning, or simply a heart for service, your contribution will help ensure that more people in Greater Augusta County can access this life-changing program.
Interested? Contact us at [email protected] or call (540) 292-1654 to learn more about board nomination and service opportunities.
If you are interested on serving on an active and fun board and being a part of an amazing program, please click below for an application!
What Your Support Does for Your Community
We are so proud of the work we are doing to change the lives of those in our community with special needs. The benefits of therapeutic riding are well-documented. People with special needs improve motor coordination, muscle strength, and verbal abilities. And they gain something more, something impossible to replicate in other therapeutic settings, a sense of self-worth and confidence that comes when a large animal responds to them with gentleness and understanding.
We couldn’t have such success stories without these wonderful horses that make the magic happen. While our horses’ roles are key and provide outstanding rewards, it happens at a high price. It is a considerable financial challenge to care for these animals that RWP works tirelessly to meet.
RWP’s annual operating budget is almost $150,000. Among the many costs of the operation each horse at Ride With Pride is $160 a month for boarding fee, $30 a month to feed, and $100 a month to keep each stall clean and fresh. That’s an average of $290 a month per horse! We haven’t mentioned what it costs for the vet bills or shoes!
While the staff and volunteers donate hundreds of hours to the program, families continue to pay $220 for a 6-week program. The payment of this fee reflects each family’s commitment, their interest in having a real and active sense of ownership, investment, and confidence in the program. However, this fee barely covers 1/3 of the operating costs. For the majority of the costs, RWP depends on people like you, whose tax-deductible, charitable contributions and in-kind donations of supplies and services make our program possible.
Please consider being our partner in this life-changing program!
Ride With Pride Can Provide NAP Credits!
Neighborhood Assistance Program Ride With Pride is so happy to once again haven be approved for the Virginia NAP program!! NAP was created by the General Assembly in 1981, to encourage businesses, trusts and individuals to make donations to approved 501(c)(3) organizations for the benefit of low-income persons. RWP is an eligible 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and received an allocation of tax credits from VDSS on a basis of our proven operational success and our capacity to serve a low-income person or an eligible student with a disability. Our calendar year for this is July 1 to June 30. We receive a limited amount we can use, so for this reason donations are on a first come, first served bases.
Who qualifies for a Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) tax credit? Individuals, Businesses, Trusts, Health Care Providers, Pharmacists, Mediators, and Physician Specialists who make a qualifying donation to a NAP organization. NAP State tax credits may be available to an individual or business donating cash or marketable securities directly to a NAP organization. The minimum donation by an individual must be at least $500. Tax credits may be available to a business donating at least $616*. *What types of donations can a business make in order to receive a tax credit?
- Cash
- Stock
- Merchandise
- Real Estate
- Rent/Lease Facility
- Contracting Services
- Professional Services
- Health Care Services
- Pharmaceutical Services
- Mediation Services
- Physician Specialist Services
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Stall Sponsor
Become a Stall Sponsor by donating $1,500 a year in support of a horse at our barn. This money goes toward that horse’s monthly rent, feeding, vet care, and farrier care. Once becoming a stall sponsor, we create a sponsor plaque for you to hang at your stall! Remaining anonymous is an option.
Business Sponsor
Become a Business Sponsor! Have your business support us by becoming a Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze donor. Be a part of our Facebook posts, sponsorship page, and event recognition!
Newsletter Sponsor
Sponsor our Newsletter and have your information displayed in our beautiful bi-annual newsletter that goes out to hundreds of businesses and individuals.
Annual Dinner and Auction
Donate a service or item to our Yearly Annual Dinner and Auction Fundraiser! Sponsor this event to have your info displayed at the largest fundraiser of the year!
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Amazaon Wishlist
Please visit the link below to see a list of essential items that help support our equine-assisted therapy programs. Your contributions make a big difference!