Our charity is River Ranch Educational Charities, and our program is called “Operation: Cowboy Kindness”! Our year-round location is in Dallas at River Ranch Texas Horse Park and our annual fall fundraiser is Storybook Pumpkin Patch in Collin County throughout October every year. Our regular year-round services include horseback riding, numerous kid’s activities, adult and kid’s parties, weddings,
family reunions, team building, school tours, boy scout and girl scout badges, educational field trips & summer day camps plus seasonal events for great rates to the general public & we give back to our community by offering free and discounted services, donations and scholarships to underprivileged, at-risk, and marginalized communities, and also to those with special needs. Our charitable services and donations are also offered to other non-profit organizations including churches, schools and other government agencies that are also contributing their efforts to the betterment of those less fortunate. We make these donations to the underprivileged and at-risk community and to those with special needs that contact our facility either individually or through a representative of their affiliated agency. This is done either by phone, email or in person after hearing about us from various sources. Our standard donations are made in the form of 1/2 hr. & 1 hour lesson packages, trail rides, petting zoo admissions, pony rides, birthday parties and horse camps. We also contribute and/or donate to a wide variety of organizations in the form of free donation certificates to be used as auction items to assist in the fund raising of other non-profit organizations in our community! The estimated value of donations made by River Ranch Educational Charities is well over 1 million dollars. Some of the organizations that have received our support include: Make A Wish Foundation, Orphan Angel, Samaritan Homeless Shelter, Texas Stampede Children’s Charity, My Possibilities Adults with Special Needs, ManeGait Gala, Birthday Blessings, Minnie’s Food Pantry, Especially Needed, Turning Point R**e Crisis Center, American Diabetes Assoc., Pegasus Autism, St. Jude’s, American Heart Association, Rocky Top Therapeutic Center and numerous local schools and individual special needs and underprivileged recipients.
