Dream Catcher Stables Inc

We have four immediate goals.
1) Continue our program which is currently weather dependent by expanding weekday services and maintaining weekend program at or above previous year.
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 - in addition to social media presence we are holding an in-person fundraiser celebrating our 25th anniversary. A one time gift of $38,000 from the Student Council of Klein Oak High School allowed us to pay off our EIDL loan on May 31, 2024. Now debt free efforts will be channelled 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, 2025.
5) Add additional Certified Horsemanship Association credentialed volunteers/professionals.
6) Continue to extend and enhance the current Cambridge Mosaic program through school year 2024-2025.
7) Implement program specifically targeting persons with PTSD by January 2025.
8) Pilot a behavioral weekday program in school year 2025-2026 with the goal of full behavioral weekday program launching in school year 2027-2027. 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 - aluminum can recycling.
2) Continue to improve our Social Media presence as launched by our Social Media Committee in January 2022.
3) Search for individuals to develop a robust capital campaign aimed at funding our permanent home.
4) Work to improve our board and provide consistent training for new board members and all volunteers as we settle into our current facility.
5) Document athlete successes in their adult world.
6) Continue to expand current programming at all levels.
7) Add virtual workshop capability for volunteer training.
8) 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.
9)Develop a solid marketing strategy and annually update our strategic plan.

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 2020 they contribute approximately 25% of our annual budget yearly.
4) Now debt free continues 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) Developing volunteers capable of and assuming many of the "hats" that our Founder wore for 20+ years.
10) Trainings for volunteers as future CHA instructors is in progress.
11) Continuing development of our Teen Board, created in 2021.

Celebrating completion of 25 years of program on August 23, 2024, 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 awarded August 3, 2022.
3) Continue program expansion carefully. Seventeen athletes competed at Top Hands 2024 earning 5 first place belt buckles; 2 second, 7 third, 6 fourth, 6 fifth, and 9 sixth place trophies; and 9 participation awards.
4) Continue to have new athletes and volunteers join us.
5) Plan to strengthen our volunteer training in the next year.
7) Baker Botts continues to guide us pro bono.
8) Presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
9) GFAS verified April 2022.
10) CHA accredited program April 2023.
11) May 31, 2024 EIDL loan paid off. We are now debt free.