Network for Good is a secure site that supports credit card and recurring monthly donations as well!

Volunteer and donation opportunities

Volunteer Programs

 

Our volunteer activities include:

 

• Workshop Equine volunteer - we usually need at least 1 volunteer per horse when we are conducting our workshops.  This role requires you to be very observant of the students activities to ensure they are being safe, and the horse is not showing harmful behavior.  You will need to be comfortable around handling horses.  
• Workshop Student volunteer -- If you wish to volunteer for the Workshop programs, but are not comfortable handling horses, we still need help with the set-up and organization of our workshops.  This would also include facilitating activities that do not have direct involvement with a horse.
• Facility volunteer -- if you are interested in working directly with the facility, we can always use a helping hand to exercise the horses, groom and bathe, feed and clean.

 

We are located in New River which is north of Phoenix and directly west of Cave Creek.  Youth under 14 Years Old can not volunteer but they can participate as a student (at no cost) with AERO staff and a parent present.  Youth can fill out the volunteer form to contact us but please include age in comments.

 

 

 

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Sponsor-a-Horse Program

AERO is seeking your support! The Sponsor-a-Horse program allows you to sponsor a horse that we rescued and that is either currently undergoing rehabilitation, or is a rescue that is now part of our children's program. Your contribution will greatly help to rehabilitate the horse and eventually lead to it going to a great home! If it's one or our permanent rescues, your sponsorship will help to provide ongoing care so the horse can remain a viable part of our children's program. Here's how you can help:

 

• $50 /month - pays for the horse's exercise program
• $100 /month - pays for special needs / medical care for a rescue
• $250 /month - pays for the horse's feed
• $500 /month - pays for the horse's complete care (feed, post-operative medical expenses, exercise program, ongoing rehabilitation/special needs)

 

 

Network for Good is a secure site that supports credit card and recurring monthly donations as well!

 

 

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Charitable Contributions

If you are unable to sponsor a horse on a monthly basis, you can opt to make a one-time charitable donation.  We are a 501(c)3 organization, therefore, your contribution is tax deductible under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.  Your contribution will help to pay for such items as:

• dietary supplements to address the unique nutrition needs of each rescue
• medical care including pre- and post- operative expenses
• routine care of horses such as grooming supplies, horse shoeing, and tooth care

 

 

 

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Our Wish List

We are always in need of various equipment and supplies ranging from large items to smaller items.  Your donation of supplies that would otherwise have to be purchased goes a long way in helping us!  Some of the donations we are seeking include:

 

Barn Supplies:

 

• Manure forks

• Freedom Spot-On fly control

• Dr. Hoy's fly spray

• Water buckets / Muck buckets

• Medium rubber grain tubs

• Duramate large plastic auto-waterers

• Manure Cart

• Tool organizing wall rack (at home depot)

• Plastic or Metal file holder for tack room notebooks and files

• Shavings, shavings, shavings (we always need these to make the horses bedding nice and soft!)

• Fly Masks
• Old rags for doctoring horses
• Elastikon 4" and Vet Wrap 3"

 

Medical Supplements and Supplies:

• Betadine wash

• Traumeel (homeopathic ointment often found at Whole Foods)

• Adequan shots (we have Rx)

• Legend shots (we have Rx)

• Bute & Banamine (we have Rx)

• Finish Line Joint HA supplement

• Misc. medical supplies (bandages, vet-wrap, cotton wrap, ointments for sores)

• Anderson sling (so we can suspend horses while we fit them for prosthetics or work on horses that cannot stand on all four feet)

 

Facility Equipment (not for the faint of heart!)

• Bumper pull or gooseneck oversize three horse slant trailer

• Portable pens for events (URGENT!) - http://www.carrilitecorrals.com/

• Horse panels or stalls (four rail)

• 4120 John Deere Tractor or equivalent

• Flatbed copying all in one printer (could be combined with above)

• Garden storage shed (for all of our barn equipment)

 

click here if you want to donate equipment or supplies!