Giving youth and adults the opportunity to discover new experiences, challenge themselves, and grow through the healing power of horses in a therapeutic setting.
Barn Update:
May 31, 2018
As May is coming to a close, I can easily say it has been an AMAZING month at The Barn! Right in the middle of May, we had a full and busy weekend for the Barn Benefit weekend, starting off Friday night with our First Annual Barn Benefit Dinner. Despite the unexpected rain, about 130 guests were able to join us at The Barn as we shared about the many exciting programs we are running and enjoyed a delicious meal catered by the Nighthawk (and I am not exaggerating, it really was delicious!). We were able to raise valuable funding for The Barn and it's programs during this event, including a year long sponsorship for several of our programs and groups. We heard many inspiring stories about the impact that horses have had on peoples' lives, and were also able to share the impact that people have had on us in this year of loss and rebuilding. We are already looking forward to what will be in store at next year's Barn Benefit Dinner, so if you were not able to make it this year, no worries!
Saturday morning started early as we finished cleanup from Friday's event and set up for the Barn's Open House! It was so much fun to open the barn for this free community event, offering games, face painting, pony rides and more delicious food! We don't often get to see how many people are involved with programs and activities at The Barn, and we loved seeing how diverse and big our community participants are. We hope everyone enjoyed participating in our Open House as much as we enjoyed hosting it!
And if that doesn't sound busy enough, after the open house, a crew of volunteers packed up and headed to the 5/3 ball park to run the 50/50 raffle. We were able to raise $2,400 through the Whitecaps Community Foundation!
As wonderful as this weekend was, we would not have been able to pull any of it off without our army of volunteers. We had so many people involved in the set up and running of these 3 events this weekend and we appreciate every ounce of energy and every moment of time that was invested in carrying off this feat. If you are one of these, THANK YOU!
We also want to thank the many companies and individuals who offered their goods and services at a discount, or at no cost at all, making this weekend possible. It was our hope to be able to invest as much of the donations as possible that came in this weekend back into our programs and services in order to make what we offer better and more accessible. And thanks to those listed below, we were able to really meet this goal!
Barn Partners
Baird Financial Advisors
Courtesy: Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep & Ram
Barn Buddies
South Kent Veterinarian Hospital
Harder and Warner Landscapes and Garden Center
Sponsors
Stehouwer Auto Sales, Inc.
Marge’s Donut Den
Douglas J Salons
Crane Dance Farms
Ingalls Pictures
The Nighthawk
Baker Rentals
Leggett and Platt
Gigi and Laclede
Gordon Food Service, Inc.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Johnny’s Pizza King
Millbrook Tack and Al & Bob Sports
Van Laar Auto Service
Auto Masters
Tribute Feed
And the many friends and family who donated items and time to make the event amazing!
-Shana Tundevold, LLMSW
Vice President of the board
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Winner of the 2018 DoGood Do Beautiful Grantthrough Alba Botanica! |
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We are so excited to announce that the Executive Director and Founder of The Barn for Equine Learning was a finalist in the Do Good Do Beautiful grant program! This is a huge recognition for all of the good, hard work that Kat has put into The Barn over the past several years. Congratulations Kat! The grant awarded will go towards the Barn's volunteer program. Since volunteers are the backbone of our organization we are so excited to see this program grow!
Spending time with our mini herd during Community Barn Time
Framing out the tack and feed room
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