SECOND HOPE RANCH, INC

501 C 3 Non Profit Equine Rescue

Central Florida

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DONATIONS:

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Get the word out! Shop for products from different stores through our web site. 100% of the net proceeds go to Second Hope Ranch, Inc. to help equine in need and educate our community about the importance of equine care.

We have jackets, horse blankets, gloves, polo wraps, Tee-shirts, hats, totes and much much more. Lots of horse related items to decorate your horse and you. More.....

Membership: Go here for Membership Form

One year membership $25 - includes one year subscription to Central Florida Horse Connection Magazine and on-going updates on our Organization and the horses we help

Single Membership $25

Family Membership $50

Business Membership $250

Sponsor a Horse - includes vet farm call fees, vaccinations, feed, supplements and training

One month Sponsorship $600

Six Months Sponsorship $3600

One Year Sponsorship $7200

Regular Daily Items and Services - these are things that are used on a regular basis, whether they be daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

Large (25 lb.) Horseshoers Secret or NuFoot $55

Joint Supplement $35

Pasture Seed & LIme $45

One Bale Coastal Hay $7

One Bale T/A Hay $12

One Gallon All Natural Fly Spray $50

One Bag Stall Pine Bedding $8

One Bag Seminole Feed $17 - include Wellness & Senior

One Farrier Hoof Trim $30

One Set Front Shoes/Trim $120 Chiropractor Body Session/Joyce Ford $150

One Year Vaccinations/Coggins $175

Building & Construction Funding - these funds go towards the building, construction and upkeep of fencing, barns, pasture and grounds maintenance. Also includes purchase of needed farm equipment and machinery. Please donate what you can to help us meet our goals. Building & Construction Funding

Classroom & Education Funding. - these funds go towards the upkeep of our Classroom building, materials and supplies for our Community classroom through our " hands" on Pixies Pony Club Training. Education through Community Clinics and Education.

Classroom & Education

Some of our Sponsors & Friends

Become a Member

If you’d like to become a member, whether you are in the Central Florida area or not, you can. Read all about becoming a member of Second Hope Ranch, Inc. and how you can help in our pledge to help equines needing help to maintain and full and fruitful life. More.....

Personal & Business Checks

Please mail checks to:
Second Hope Ranch, Inc.
Attn: Membership
P.O. Box 700536
St. Cloud, FL 34770-0536

Corporate Giving

Your corporation can support various programs, like Education and Training programs at Second Hope Ranch, Inc. Please contact us for further information.

Wills and Trusts

Placing Second Hope Ranch, Inc. in your will is an excellent way to provide for the care and protection of horses in the future. You can name Second Hope Ranch, Inc. as a direct beneficiary or as a contingent beneficiary in the event that an originally designated beneficiary does not survive you. Please contact us for further information.

Wish List and Other Gifts (See itemized list below)

Your donations of everything from office supplies to farm equipment to bandages allow us to use funds to support our goals for Second Hope Ranch, Inc. Also consider donating stocks and bonds, real estate, or listing us in a life insurance policy. Please contact us for further information.

Donating your Horse

Knowing that you must leave your horse is a very painful experience. For whatever reason - money, illness, lack of time, location - when you realize that you and your best friend need to separate, it’s up to you to make a decision about his future. There are a number of options available, depending on his skill, physical health and age. Let’s discuss your choices. Email us or give us a call. Email We want to help.

Volunteers

Interested in becoming a Volunteer? We want you to be involved! We need volunteers to help with many aspects of our organization. We need everyone from volunteers for marketing, fundraising, ranch help and office work. Everything needed to keep a ranch running. We need volunteers that just want to groom horses and we need folks to help us with the administrative details and the building, maintenance and upkeep of a ranch. An hour a week, a hundred hours, give whatever you can give. Our location is in St. Cloud, Florida, just south of Orlando and about 40 miles East of Disney World and 45 miles east of Melbourne. We have a small ranch at the moment, but we still care for many fosters horses and other equine in need. Our center not only gives equine the love and attention they deserve, but have programs for horses owners and enthusiasts to educate them on the needs of these large steeds. We have foster homes all over the Southeast US and work hand in hand with Habitat for Horses in doing this.

Our volunteer program is designed to bring people that have a deep love and respect for horses together with horses that need love and respect. Through a series on hands-on experiences, including diet, grooming, handling, medical and dental care, round pen training and riding, our hope is that volunteers will acquire the knowledge to interact with horses in a positive manner. By learning and demonstrating levels of responsibility and knowledge, our volunteers will advance to the point of teaching others.

You’ll find that we are very specific about horse care. During the hot, muggy days of summer and on what can be miserable cold days of winter, (yes, even in Florida) the horses still need to be fed, the water buckets filled, the stalsl and paddocks cleaned and medications given. If you say you’ll be here, we’re counting on you. On the other hand, if you just want to groom you are more than welcome to volunteer to do that. We have a number of people that want to use mucking or grooming time, as their get away time from every day hustle & bustle. Once we know that you can handle yourself safely around horses, we’ll leave you alone.

Future Ranch work available

We will have ranch work available once we get our property completed with everything for taking care of horses. We will need all types of work done, from painting, fencing, plumbing, feeding, mucking stalls, transporting of equine and tons of other tasks. We plan on having an early evening BBQ weekly for the volunteers when their work day is done. This is in appreciation for all their work. You can volunteer the entire day or just in the morning or evening. Hours will depend on time of year, weather conditions and work that will be needed to be done.

If you’re interested in becoming a volunteer, please contact us at Volunteer@Secondhoperanch.org and we will forward you an application. Since there are kids and animals involved on a daily basis in our organization, background checks will be done on everyone volunteering for our program.

Age Limit

Due to the potential danger of our daily functions, children under the age of 16 cannot volunteer, and children/young adults between the ages of 12 and 17 must be accompanied by an adult unless they are in our Pixie Pony Club Program. Pixies Pony Club will start soon, so be on the lookout!

FUNDRAISING:

Marketing and Fundraising
Shelly Scherer
marketing@secondhoperanch.org

Our organization thrives because of its dedicated members and volunteers. The marketing and fundraising group wants to promote this great organization and find ways to help horse lovers’ help the horses. We welcome any offers for fundraiser's, distribution of our materials or recommendations such as ideas to help us work better for the horses.

WISH LIST:

If you are able to help with any of the items below they will be greatly appreciated!

Volunteers Always Needed.... For grooming, riding and care of our equine friends
Artists for magazine, flyers and print advertising
Team to research items needed for our programs, fundraising and magazine.
**Special Things Needed**
- Help with building sheds, barns, fencing, plumbing and electrical
- Building materials
- Gates, lumber, nails, screws
- Automatic waterer and plumbing connections and pipes
- Electric fence supplies
- Outside night lights
- Large barn fans
- Large buckets (15 gallon size) with handles (for water and mucking)
- Security camera and equipment for both outside property and in stalls for monitoring
- Gator or Mule ATV Vehicle to drive around equipment on ranch for fixing fence, spreading manure. etc
- Stall mats, bedding, Stall Dry, mucking forks, brooms, dustpans
- Manure spreader
- Tack, any size, including harnesses
- Horse blankets (all sizes)
- Driving carts (all sizes)
- Horse Sling for equine needing assistance in standing
- Trailers (i.e.) horse trailers, open stock trailers, flat hay trailers, even a box trailer to store hay in at our rented pasture. etc.
**Everyday Items always Needed**

The stores we frequent in Central Florida for our supplies are the following:

Narcoossee Hardware and Feed

Kissimmee Valley Feed & Ranch Supply, Inc.

Osceola Farm & Ranch of St. Cloud

Staples of St. Cloud

Tractor Supply of Saint Cloud

We are not promoting or advertising these stores, only stating that we use them should you want to send them a donation for Second Hope Ranch, Inc., We cannot vouch for any products or services that they may offer. Please let us know if you send them donations directly so we know they have been made.

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954