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Your contribution supports our programs, employees, and horses and helps to provide lifechanging therapy for children and adults with disabilities in Central Arkansas. Explore ways to donate to Healing Hooves below.
We are extremely grateful for your contribution.
A gift of any amount makes a difference at Healing Hooves, and all general donations are tax deductible.
Become a Healing Hooves Champion
Your Donation Matters
As a Healing Hooves Champion, you can help us build a stronger connection with our mission, providing direct support to keep programs moving to heal the body, mind, and spirit. Each level of sponsorship coincides with a Plaque of Appreciation on our barn wall that will forever be seen by our participants. For donors of $30,000 and over their logo/name will be included in all print materials, put on the website, and announced at all events. Each level of sponsorship below gives you a Plaque of Appreciation our wall. Rider fees cover only a small portion of our program expenses, while we are constantly pursing grant opportunities, we are always in need of donations to cover our operating costs and to help us develop future outreach programs.
Group Gold Medalist ($50,000) – Scholarship for Youth Participants for an Equine Assisted Learning Group Sesson (max of 6 participants) Provides 100 sessions for a Horse Powered Reading, Leadership, Team Building, or Mindfulness with horses. The Scholarship will bin a name of your choosing, and a banner will go in our riding arena.
Mounted Silver Medalist ($40,000) – Scholarship for Youth Participants for Therapeutic or Adaptive Riding Session for 400 individual lessons. The Scholarship will be in a name of your choosing and a banner will go in our riding arena.
Bronze Hippo Medalist ($30,000) – Hippotherapy scholarship for 300 riders in addition to a section for the Sensory Trail with a name chosen by you (with a sign of your choosing).
Winners Circle ($15,000) – Gift a horse to Healing Hooves. This generous donation will support its unique tack and supplies. Your name will be put on the horse’s stall and on the website. *The horse is chosen by the Healing Hooves equine leadership team. (Limit 4)
Blue Ribbon ($10,000) – Support a Horse! Cover the feed and care of Healing Hooves therapy horse for an entire year. Your name will go on the horse’s stall and on our website as a sponsor. (Limit 10)
Gatekeeper of the Grounds ($5000) – Helps to maintain the costs associated with the arenas, pastures, grounds, fences and buildings for our horse herd and participants.
Champion of Education & Equipment ($1,000) – Your donations will help fund our continuing education programs with our staff and better support our participants and purchase the necessary equipment to accommodate the various programs.
Other Ways to Help
Legacy: Legacy Gifts and Memorials are generous gifts that build a deeper connection with our donor families and strengthen the foundation on which Healing Hooves was built. By naming Healing Hooves as a beneficiary in your estate planning or donating in memory of a loved one, you ensure that children and adults with disabilities will continue to ride tall for generations to come. Reach out to our director, at and we will provide you the assistance needed.
Host a Fundraising Event: (contact ) We appreciate the opportunity to partner with local businesses and philanthropic organizations who are willing to host events benefiting Healing Hooves. It is a perfect way for businesses to give back to the community while helping raise awareness about our program and their own products and services as a partner.
Volunteer: As a nonprofit organization, we rely heavily on the generosity of caring individuals and service groups. Opportunities for volunteering vary from assisting with horses and riders, completing odd jobs around the barn, and participating in special events and fundraising activities. Helping hands and big hearts are all that is needed to make a huge and lasting impact.
Employee Giving: Did you know that many workplaces have a giving program that allow you to give effortlessly by automatically contributing a portion of your paycheck to Healing Hooves. Many companies also offer donation matching programs which allow you to double, or sometimes even triple your charitable contributions without a second thought. Talk to your employer to find out what types of employers giving options are available to start multiplying your generosity.
Repeat Giving: Sponsor a horse for a month, or a specific program, on a recurring basis.
“Healing Hearts”
By making a monthly donation of $90, you can sponsor a client to receive equine lessons. Your donations help to cover equine and staffing needs for services. Recurring donations can be set up via direct debit or monthly invoices.
“Provide the Ride”
A gift of any amount makes a difference at Healing Hooves, and all general donations are 100% tax-deductible. You can make a donation online via credit card. Recurring donations can be set up via direct debit or monthly invoices.
“Healing the Herd”
By making a monthly donation of $60, you can sponsor a special member of our healing herd. This donation can help us with providing the best care possible to our herd. Reoccurring donations can be set up via direct debit or monthly invoices.
Get Our Hooves Moving
If you are looking for other ways to support Healing Hooves’s needs, please consider donating an item from our wish list or making a monetary donation through the donate now button below. Your support is appreciated!
Event Sponsorships Coming in 2025
As our organization grows, we are going to have several small events throughout the year, and one annual event each year.
We are making plans now for our 2025 Soiree that will feature live music, food, raffles, Live and silent auction items. There are countless options to get involved and make your mark your company as an event sponsor. If you are interested in any of our sponsorship levels, please feel free to reach us for more details.
- Healing Hooves Event Presenting Sponsor- $25,000
- Saddle Up Sponsor- $10,000
- Harness a Heart Sponsor- $5,000
- Stirrup Sponsor- $2,500
- Bridle & Bit Sponsor- $1,500
- Reins Sponsor- $500
- Feed the Need Sponsor- $250
- Single Ticket- $125
- In Kind
Make a Contribution Today
We would not exist without the donation support from our community leaders. We accept any level of sponsorship from a one-time donation, helping with the herd, or being a corporate sponsor for our annual fundraisers. Please contact us by email or phone and we can customize any level of financial support you are able to provide.
Did you know?
One bag of horse feed can range from $20 to $75 depending on dietary needs
The cost of one lesson is approximately $90.00 per rider
Caring for one horse takes approximately $1,500 per year
Equine Assisted Learning & Therapeutic Riding Horse Donation
Donating to Our Herd
The hardest-working members of the Healing Hooves team are our horses. Are you considering donating a horse? Please read on…
As our Equine Assisted Programs grow, we are open to a conversation with you about your horse and will consider all options based on the criteria for our ongoing needs. Here are some things you should consider reading before contacting us about your horse:
The concept that Adaptive Horsemanship lessons are easy, low-stress “pony rides” for people with disabilities is utterly untrue. In fact, our program horses must deal with even greater demands than a typical riding academy, including riders who cannot be balanced, loud noises, and unfamiliar arena equipment. Horses in our program must accept up to 2-3 volunteers surrounding them during a lesson and tolerate different people riding, leading, and handling them each week.
This is NOT a cushy retirement opportunity but a demanding work-from-home assignment for sturdy, patient, and well-loved horses.
Horse Donation Criteria Requirements:
Our horses work in a unique and demanding environment. To meet those needs, we can only consider horses for donation that match the following criteria:
Horse Donation Criteria:
- Between the ages of 7 years and 20 years.
- Between approximately 14 hands and 16.2 hands.
- Sound for flatwork and light arena and trail riding with only routine maintenance and medical needs. Restrictions on high-performance activities may be considered if the horse is stepping down from a performance career (example. jumping, barrel racing, or upper-level dressage).
- Do not require shoes to remain sound. Our acreage can be rocky or muddy on given days, and we cannot maintain corrective shoes.
- Able to walk, trot (or second gait), and canter with smooth transitions.
- A minimum of 5 years under saddle, and is currently being ridden a minimum of 3 days a week.
- Offered for a minimum 60-day trial is preferred to ensure horses entering our program are happy!
Approving Your Horse Donation
During the trial period, we will determine if the horse is the right fit for our program.
What We Look For:
- Excellent ground manners.
- Interested in engaging with our participants.
- Accepting of inexperienced and/or unbalanced riders.
- Obedient to both voice and leg signals.
- Respectful of inexperienced volunteer handlers on the ground.
- Tolerant of people walking beside them during lessons.
- Accepting of assistive devices and equipment.
Interested in donating a horse?
Partners that make it possible
Make A Difference and be an Ambassador with Healing Hooves
At Healing Hooves, when you give your time, you help heal body, mind, and soul.
Healing Hooves programs are supported by many dedicated volunteers each week. Many volunteers participate in riding lessons as horse leaders or side walkers for our riders. Some enjoy caring for our herd of therapy horses and maintaining our stables, and other volunteers help with facility upkeep, administrative tasks, or special events.
Working with our students and assisting in our EAL programs is such a peaceful experience and is therapeutic in and of itself.
No Horse Experience Needed
There are volunteer roles at Healing Hooves for equestrians and non-equestrians alike. Our certified staff will teach you everything you need to know to safely and effectively work with our horses and riders. Many volunteers come to us with little or no horse experience. We love to share our mission and teach skills to those interested in learning. We also have opportunities for those more experienced in horsemanship.
Volunteer with us TODAY!
Ready to experience the beauty of the horse at Healing Hooves? Contact us today to schedule your appointment!