Dream Catcher Stables

To achieve our goals we will: 1) Continue our in-house capital campaign including aluminum can recycling and a major garage sale. 2) Begin a major social media campaign in late 2020 with a goal of $2,000,000 in cash or pledges within a year of launch. 3) Assist in marketing of the Iron Horse Run which will benefit our capital campaign. 4) Continue to identify and approach potential donors and work toward acquisition of major capital grants. Prospectus updated by July 2020, delivered by hand or shipping service along with appropriate phone call requesting meeting. 5) Corporations are on board to help with concrete, land preparation, electrical and plumbing needs, welding, and the caretaker's house. We are now recognized by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. 6) Work to improve our board and provide consistent training for new board members and all volunteers as we move to our new facility. 7) Pilot a written plan for working with difficult students in Aldine ISD during the school day during the 2021-2022 school year, or before. Refine the plan and present it to targeted districts for their approval during the 2022-2023 school year.

Our all volunteer public charity has the ability to 1) allow volunteers to select the time and extent to which they commit ensuring that volunteers remain/become enthusiastic about and dedicated to our mission. 2) 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) 3) 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. They contribute approximately 8% of our annual budget yearly. 4) sustain itself demonstrated by completion of our 20th 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 as time allows using the information given by Professor O'Neal's Campaign Class at Sam Houston State University in the fall of 2016, that provided by the December 2018 Taproot Foundation workshop, and Firespring in 2020. 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 protoges to eventually redistribute the administrative and program duties currently completed by our founder. 10) trainings for volunteers as future CHA instructors await our portable building.

We measure our successes by 1) number of lessons our participants receive each year with consideration for inclement weather days. 2) progress of our participants in horsemanship including their ability to compete at the horse shows we attend. 3) number of volunteer hours and number of volunteers who make our program happen. 4) funding - we operate on a cash basis. 5) marketing opportunities including press received and requests for speakers 6) retention of participants and volunteers. 7) use and review of our Guidestar metrics. 8) Great Nonprofit reviews. At the suggestion of Taproot Foundation, in 2019 we plan to initiate more formal assessment tools for measuring our program success. Acquisition of these tools is currently on hold while we work through the construction challenges

Celebrating our 20th birthday this past August we 1) have made our current leased 2+ acres usable with bare bones facility - water, three cargo containers, and sufficient fencing. The land is ready for the proposed facility. 2) are working through the airport permitting process with Walter P Moore and H4 Architects and Engineers guiding us. 3) continue program with expansion planned. Before being interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic our weekend lesson program had returned to full strength. Twenty athletes competed at Top Hands 2020 earning 4 first place belt buckles; 8 second, 7 third, 6 fourth, 9 fifth, and 11 sixth place trophies; and 7 participation awards. Plans for weekday program await the completion of our current facility. 4) continue to have new athletes and volunteers join us. 5) plan to strengthen our volunteer training as our facility is finished. 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. 6) Baker Botts continues to guide us through Covid-19 and beyond. 7) need a few good horses to support the growing program. 8) plan to review and upgrade our marketing and fundraising strategies this year.