How to Participate in the DeGraff Stables, Inc. Charity Program
DeGraff Stables is pleased to continue in 2012 the popular Charity Program from 2011. We will once again donate a portion of each Futurity Breeding booked to the Charity of the Mare Owners Choice from our list of eligible organizations. In 2011, we chose many deserving programs and all of these will still be available in 2012 as a selection option. We will also continue to find programs that provide relief, hope and help to individuals, and, while you may choose the charity of your choice for donation, each month we will highlight a different program.
Thanks to the owners of each stallion that is resident for the 2012 breeding season at DeGraff Stables, many breed futurity programs are supported by the donation of a free breeding by the stallion owners for a breeding season to their stallions. These breedings are made available by the futurity organizations at a discounted rate to mare owners. Once a mare owner purchases the breeding to the stallion of their choice, the funds are made available in future years for the foals of the resulting matings to compete and earn by winning during competitions.
To participate in the DeGraff Stables, Inc. Charity Program, find the list of Foal Incentives and Engagements per stallion. This identifies their individual eligible futurities for our world-class stallion line-up including: DGS IndyGo, DGS Vestastic, Frosty the Goodbar (AQHA/ARHA), HBF Iron Man (AQHA/APHA), Hes A Cool Hotrod (AQHA/APHA), Hot Lopin Sensation (APHA), Indian Artifacts (AQHA/AWR), Invite The Artist (APHA), MDR Impulsive (AQHA/APHA) and PR Tells A Tale on our website at www.DeGraffStables.com , make your selection and contact us, we will contact the appropriate organization and reserve your breeding of choice. When you pay your booking fee, DeGraff Stables, Inc. will donate $100 of each booking fee to the charity program of the month unless you specify differently! As a mare owner, you may also choose to match the donation, if so, please enclose an additional check made out in their name and we will forward to the Charity. We thank the many people last year whom also chose to help us help others. A sincere thank you to all whom participate!
DeGraff Stables Inc. October Charity Promotion
VICTORY GALLOP THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
Victory Gallop October Charity-Helping Kids Through Horses
Through a long-term commitment, Victory Gallop, Inc., a nonprofit organization, is known as a therapeutic riding program that clients, supporters and employees see as a unified group of individuals striving to improve the quality of life for children with behavioral and/or emotional challenges and life threatening illnesses through recreational riding and therapeutic use of horses. You may find more information at www.VictoryGallop.org
DGS CharityDonationVictoryGallop October
SPECIAL FOR JUNE !!!!! Don’t have a mare to breed for this season? Are all of your mares are already booked? Purchase an available Futurity in 2012 and carry over your breeding in 2013! Pay the Futurity portion of the Futurity in 2012 and 1/2 of the Booking Fee which immediately gets donated to the June Charity Program of Big Brothers Big Sisters and use your breeding in 2013! In 2013, you will be responsible for the other half of the booking fee plus any shipping or pick up fees as apply!
DeGraff Stables, Inc. June Charity Promotion
Big Brothers Big Sisters is not your typical charitable organization. For more than 100 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has operated under the belief that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life. As the nation’s largest donor and volunteer supported mentoring network, Big Brothers Big Sisters makes meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country. Purchase a donated Futurity breeding from a DeGraff Stables Stallion and help a child! Click Here! Visit the Big Brothers Big Sisters Website for More Information!
DGS June Charity Beneficiary Big Brothers Big Sisters
DeGraff Stables, Inc. May Charity Promotion
USPEA United States Para-Equestrian Association
The May DeGraff Stables selected charity is the “United States Para-Equestrian Association”! The primary focus of the USPEA programs are to provide clinic and competition opportunities for athletes with physical disabilities. What makes USPEA so special is that a person with a disability can compete in an exciting and well respected sport as an elite athlete and be judged on their abilities. A Para-Equestrian has the opportunity to reach the highest level of their sport including National Championships, World Equestrian Games, and the Olympics. What makes USPEA so special is that a person with a disability can compete in an exciting and well respected sport as an elite athlete and be judged on their abilities. A Para-Equestrian has the opportunity to reach the highest level of their sport including National Championships, World Equestrian Games, and the Olympics. Click Here! Visit the USPEA Website for More Information! or, watch the USPEA Para Equestrian Promotional Video
Click Here! Print Information for the DGS May Charity Donation; USPEA
DeGraff Stables, Inc. April Charity Promotion
Celebrate World "Wish" Day
April 29, 2012!
Book one of the remaining stallion futurity program breedings and join us in the support of “The Make A Wish Foundation”. Since 1980 this outstanding charity program has been granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Today, the Make-A-Wish Foundation fulfills a child’s wish every 40 minutes and has granted the wishes of more than 200,000 children with life-threatening medical conditions in the United States. Visit their website at http://www.wish.org.
Click Here! Join DeGraff Stables and Celebrate World “Wish” Day April 29th
DeGraff Stables, Inc. March Charity Promotion
Develop A Child's Enthusiasm For Horses!
“Join DeGraff Stables, Inc. in support of our selected charity for March! We have chosen to donate half of the Futurity booking fees collected to a “The Pony Club”. What better way to enrich our riders and leaders of tomorrow than through providing youngsters with access to horses and to learning? DeGraff Stables is committed to being a part of creating and developing a long-term love of the horse through education and accessibility to the horse for kids, ensuring a future for our breeding and riding programs! “ Click Here! Visit The Pony Club Website “Where It All Begins”!
Click Here! Print the March DeGraff Stables Charity Donation~The Pony Club “Where It All Begins”!
DeGraff Stables, Inc. February Charity Promotion
Donate To "Horses For Heroes"!
Join DeGraff Stables, Inc. in support of our selected charity for February! We have chosen to donate half of the Futurity booking fees collected to a program named “Horses For Heroes”. Locally, “Horses For Heroes” is under the umbrella of CKRH; Central Kentucky Riding For Hope which is an organization located at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington that provides equine assisted activities for both children and adults. “Horses For Heroes” is in it’s pilot phase and is being implemented around the country by approved NARHA, North American Riding for the Handicapped Association facilities. Each location operates the “Horses For Heroes” a bit differently.
In central Kentucky, CKRH has formed collaboration with the two Lexington VA Hospitals to provide services for veterans; specifically to treat PTSD – post traumatic stress disorder. We understand that other “Horses For Heroes” programs around the country may make additional services available and that extend to the families of our servicemen while they are away from home. We encourage anyone interested to contact Joan Wilcoxen, the CKRH Volunteer Coordinator at volunteers@ckrh.org for information on the CKRH program or to see if she may be able to help you find a chapter of “Horses For Heroes” in your home area! We challenge you to get involved!
Click Here! Print the “Horses For Heroes” DeGraff Stables February Charity Donation Program
DeGraff Stables, Inc. January Charity Promotion
DeGraff Stables Charity Program January Selection!
Join DeGraff Stables, Inc. in support of our selected charity for January! We have chosen the Black Stallion Literacy Foundation for January’s donation, as this non-profit organization helps children discover the joys of reading and the excitement of learning through the wonders of live horses and Walter Farley’s Black Stallion books… we thought… what better way to grow our equine horse business for future generations than to help children learn to read and at the same time… to love horses?
We realize that mare owners have many fantastic choices when it comes to selecting a pleasure horse stallion for crossing on their mare. If your plans include one of the stallions from our extra-ordinary line-up of Champion Quarter Horses, Paints or Warmblood stallion, for 2012 and you are successful in obtaining an available discounted futurity/donated breeding to one of them, DeGraff Stables, Inc. will donate half of your booking fee to The Black Stallion Literacy Foundation for those bookings made in January! You will not only be supporting the futurity of your choice and the resulting offspring, you will be providing enjoyment and education to youngsters! More information may be found at: http://www.bslf-online.org/
Click Here! Print the January DeGraff Stables Charity Program!
DeGraff Stables, Inc. December Charity Promotion
DeGraff Stables Charity Program December Selection!
We are thrilled to report, that in December, DeGraff Stables donates a portion of each stallion’s futurity booking to the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. The Jimmy V Foundation was selected as the V Foundation takes great pride in its fiscal responsibility and is proud to announce that it gives 100 percent of all new direct cash donations to cancer research and related programs. According to Charity Navigator, the V Foundation has a 4-Star Rating. This means that the charity exceeds inudstry standards and outperforms most charities in its cause! Administrative and fundraising expenses are paid by their endowments. I had chosen cancer research in admiration of my best friend whom has been fighting colon cancer for five years now. And, I am sure that most everyone has close friends or family whose lives have been touched by this debilitating disease.
My hope is that by supporting research, someday, a cure may be found. We would like to thank everyone whom took advantage of booking a futurity in December and helped to support this exceptional organization. In fact, one person, in honor of his wife whom was lost to cancer actually matched our donation. Bless you! More information regarding The Jimmy V Foundation may be found at: http://www.jimmyv.org/
Thanks again, and if you have any questions, you may email me at robin@whatiwork4.com ,or, please call us at the office 859.846.5000 or I may be reached by cell phone 419.573.9098!
Robin
P.S., I couldn’t resist posting this picture of James, Theo and David from last summer!… they grew their hair and shaved their heads bald to donate their hair to make wigs. These wigs were donated to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments through Jame’s church program.
Thank Goodness it Was Time to Shave!