Post by coconut on Oct 26, 2008 11:08:50 GMT -5
I didn't want to change the thread of the gift giving to Safe horses but that brings up another SAFE GIFT Related idea(I think we talked about this at the Volunteer Get-to-gether) : Sponsorships for SAFE Horses as Holiday or Birthday gifts. We could offer the recipient a pretty 8x10 photo of one of the SAFE horses and a sponsorship certificate with some info about SAFE. Once someone created the forms it could be as simple as printing it and then sending them out. I would think the costs on this type of thing would be just a few dollars to assemble & bring in $15-20 in sales each. The beauty might be that we don't have to print a bunch up and have the investment unless we could get tack/feed shops to carry them for us. Otherwise the effort would only have to be made per order (off the website, Craigs list, other horse board, etc..)
The other element to this kind of endeavor, I think, would be updates on the horses available through electronic or regular mail so that it's the gift that keeps on giving. Of course they can always be directed to the message board updates for each horse.
I would have been thrilled to have someone adopt me a horse when I was 10 and couldn't have one of my own. In fact someone gave me a dolphin several years ago and I still check in on that organization from time to time.
The other element to this kind of endeavor, I think, would be updates on the horses available through electronic or regular mail so that it's the gift that keeps on giving. Of course they can always be directed to the message board updates for each horse.
I would have been thrilled to have someone adopt me a horse when I was 10 and couldn't have one of my own. In fact someone gave me a dolphin several years ago and I still check in on that organization from time to time.
