Dream Catcher Stables Inc

We have four immediate goals.
1) Continue our program which is currently weather dependent increasing services by 10% over 2021.
2) Secure a permanent home. Our grazing license on 22+ acres owned by the City of Houston and Bush Intercontinental Airport ends November 8, 2028.
3) To meet our needs with fundraising - Immediately efforts are underway to secure the remainder of the 2022 budget and obtain funds to pay off our EIDL loan. Efforts will continue to locate and fund our forever home. Expectation is that we will need to raise $5,000,000. Everyone can help. We continue aluminum can collection with a goal of 80,000,000 cans to fund purchase of that forever home while helping save the environment.
4) Complete Accreditation with GFAS (Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries by September 30, 2022.
5) Accredit our program with Certified Horsemanship Association by December 31, 2023.
6) Extend and enhance the current Cambridge Mosaic program through school year 2022-2023.
7) Pilot a behavioral weekday program in school year 2022-2023 with the goal of full behavioral weekday program launching in school year 2023-2024. This wrangler program will assist local school districts in redirecting students from behavioral to regular campus life.

To achieve our goals we will:
1) Continue our in-house capital campaign including aluminum can recycling and GoFundMe launched by our Teen Advisory Board.
2) Continue to improve our Social Media presence as launched by our Social Media Committee in January 2022.
3) Build on marketing provided by Tx Elite and Pit Row Pit Stop to fund 2022 and build program.
4) Continue to identify and approach potential donors and work toward acquisition of major capital grants.
5) Work to improve our board and provide consistent training for new board members and all volunteers as we settle into our current facility.
6) Assess and review pilot projects currently underway with Humble ISD Mosaic program and Spring High School Agriculture internship program.
7) Refine the pilot project plans and present to targeted districts for their approval during the 2023-2024 school year.
8) Continue to expand current programming to return to pre-covid levels.
9) Add virtual workshop capability for volunteer training.
10) Work toward the ultimate goal of a permanent program home by November 8, 2028. Expected cost of property $5,000,000. Expected time to complete facility if non-existent 2 years from time of acquisition.

Our all volunteer public charity has the ability to
1) Continue to market through VolunteerMatch.org
2) Allow volunteers to select the time and extent to which they commit ensuring that volunteers remain/become enthusiastic about and dedicated to our mission.
3) Succeed on a minimal budget through careful shopping and a variety of in-kind donations (a large number of which are made anonymously or without documentation to us)
4) Serve people regardless of ability to pay. Athlete families now are beginning to "pay it forward" in order to ensure that this successful program will always be here for them. Since Covid began they contribute approximately 25% of our annual budget yearly.
4) Sustain itself demonstrated by completion of our 23rd year and continual growth of participants and volunteers without formal marketing.
5) Provide personal growth for everyone involved.
6) Expand our presence on social media and in the community with the help of our Board of Directors, Social Media Committee, and continuing word of mouth marketing.
7) Reach further to garner additional sustaining donors.
8) A Founder and President with a never give up attitude.
9) Continual planning, teaching, and encouraging of individual volunteers with a goal of developing a group of proteges to eventually redistribute the administrative and program duties currently completed by our founder.
10) Trainings for volunteers as future CHA instructors expected to begin Summer 2022.
11) In 2021 we began a Teen Advisory Board with it's first president setting a personal goal of becoming our program director for life.

Celebrating completion of 23 years of program on August 23, 2022, we:
1) have made our current leased 22+ acres usable with - utilities, three cargo containers, an arena, sufficient fencing, a 14'x60' portable building, and a 40'x60' ten stall all weather portable barn for our horses. The all-weather driveway and parking area was donated by Cherry Construction and the lumber for the barn by Anglia Homes.
2) Completed the airport permitting process September 3, 2020 with Walter P Moore and H4 Architects and Engineers guiding us. Formal Certificate of Occupancy is still in progress.
3) Continue program with expansion planned. Before being interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic our weekend lesson program had returned to full strength. Sixteen athletes competed at Top Hands 2022 earning 1 first place belt buckles; 7 second, 6 third, 10 fourth, 9 fifth, and 9 sixth place trophies; and 2 participation awards.
4) Continue to have new athletes and volunteers join us.
5) Plan to strengthen our volunteer training in the next year. This effort is being lead by the most recent addition to our Board of Directors, Yarely Ramirez. Yarely first volunteered with us while in high school as a way to decide on career options. Choosing Speech Therapy she pledged to return after college and did so. 6) We have added an abridged form of our policies and procedures manual which is required reading with signature proof. Current volunteers are being sent an email copy with the request that they return the signature page no later than the reopening of program.
7) Baker Botts continues to guide us pro bono.
8) Instagram was added thanks to our teenage volunteers and has now been linked with our Facebook Page for ease in posting.