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GivingTuesday 2023

During this most devastating time as we mourn the loss of Beauty, the Arabian mare that was the beginning, as well as the heart and soul, of Beauty’s Haven, we find it difficult to even put one foot in front of the other. We must, nevertheless, dig in our heels and carry on for the sake of the remainder of our equine herd as well as for the other sentient beings in our care. And whilst Beauty is no longer physically here, we know in our hearts that she will forever be watching over me and the rest of her family and friends here at the rescue.

With #GivingTuesday 2023 upon us, we are hoping and praying for your support to assist us with the numerous ongoing expenses involved in running an equine rescue organization.

These expenses that are necessary to ensure the overall safety, health, comfort and well-being of each and every member of our herd, many with special needs:

  • Broken gates and fence boards need to be replaced,
  • repairs to shelters and equipment are needed,
  • the supplement and medication cabinets need to be restocked,
  • Some horses here have no sponsors to even cover their daily expenses, and the list goes on.

As Beauty’s Haven is also actively engaged in TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return), the most effective and humane method for managing and subsequently, reducing the population of the numerous feral and stray cats that frequently find their way to our farm, your donation will also assist greatly with the veterinary and overall care expenses of these precious cats and kittens, who, sadly, find themselves alone and unwanted through no fault of their own.

We currently are in need of a catio which will provide a safe and warm place for the feral cats and kittens that routinely visit. Just last week, a new family of five kittens and their mother showed up – a big catch cage which would enable us to catch multiple cats and kittens at once would be a most necessary and welcome addition to our TNR program.

Lastly, In honor of Beauty, a wonderful supporter has offered a $1000 Match Game to kick off our fundraiser. We would be forever grateful for your support on this #GivingTuesday, 2023.

Sincerely,
Theresa

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With Sincere Gratitude


Thanks to each and every one of you, our #GivingTuesday campaign was a huge success!

Together with offline donations, we are very close to meeting our Match Game goal of $11,000 with just $593 to go. We are truly humbled and so very blessed by your generosity, love and support of our beloved little herd. Thank you, all, from the bottom of our hearts.

Wishing everyone a blessed holiday season.

Warmly,
Theresa

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Happy #GivingTuesday!


At long last, #GivingTuesday has arrived! This wonderful day of giving is crucial for nonprofit organizations like Beauty’s Haven, to raise the necessary funds which help enable us to continue our most important mission of rescuing equines and other sentient beings in need, thereby granting each a second chance at life which they all so richly deserve.

All gifts up to $11,000 will be matched dollar for dollar through December 15th, so please take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to double your impact. Contributions may be made on the form below. If donating via PayPal, please designate your contribution to #GivingTuesday. As always, all donations are so greatly appreciated and please be assured that no amount is ever too small.

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Wishing you all a blessed Holiday Season.

Sincerely,
Theresa

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Just Two Days Away!

#GivingTuesday is just two days away! It is the most important fundraising day of the year for organizations like ours and after the challenges of the last two years, it is more crucial than ever.

All gifts up to $11,000 will be matched dollar for dollar through December 15th! If you wish to get ahead of the game, just submit your tax-deductible gift today on the form below. If donating via PayPal, please designate your contribution to GivingTuesday. All donations are so greatly appreciated and please be assured that no amount is ever too small.

Wishing you all a blessed Holiday Season.

Sincerely,
Theresa

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Mares’ Rescue Ushers in #GivingTuesday, Year End Campaign

Beauty’s Haven Farm and Equine Rescue, Inc. is once again participating in #GivingTuesday, a global giving movement which connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations throughout the world for one common purpose – to celebrate and encourage giving. #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season on December 1, 2020, when many focus upon their holiday and year-end giving. #Giving Tuesday is also the kickoff day for our 2020 Year-End Campaign (YEC) for the horses!

We are beginning our #GivingTuesday campaign with a $2000 Match Game to help the three senior Thoroughbred mares, Aries, Raz and Nicky, we rescued on Thanksgiving Day. As their needs are many, their road to recovery will be not only long, but quite extensive and costly.

Watching these precious mares settle in and grow more relaxed in their new surroundings is so very rewarding and we are eagerly awaiting the day when they once again become proud and healthy horses. Seeing this, and new friendships taking root and growing, makes us feel truly blessed about what we do. Beauty’s Haven is indeed, a place “Where life begins, again!”

Beauty’s Haven is home to many special needs horses with individualized nutritional needs and supplementation, as well as more frequent veterinary, farrier and dental care. It’s only with your support that we are able to help these magnificent creatures who give so much and ask for so little.

Donations are understandably down due to Covid-19, but the needs of our beloved herd remain constant:

  • More hay is needed during the cold winter months,
  • Our medical supply cabinet needs to be restocked,
  • Maintenance to our farm equipment and shelters is ongoing, and
  • Our riding mower still needs to be replaced as it requires constant and costly repairs. (If anyone would like to donate a commercial grade zero turn mower, it would be so very much appreciated!)

The needs of our horses, however, always remain first and foremost. Our YEC goal this year is $15,000.

Your donation in any amount is very much appreciated. Please click on the button below to contribute!

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You may also donate via PayPalMe, click here. (Please select the tab ‘Send Money to Friends or Family’ and no fees will be deducted from your contribution). Please also note that your donation is for #GivingTuesday.

Thank you all and God bless.

Sincerely,
Theresa

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Double Your Donation on #GivingTuesday

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Make a difference in the lives of the Beauty’s Haven Herd!

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be matching donations made to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations via Facebook starting at 8 am on Tuesday, November 28th, in support of #GivingTuesday. In addition, Facebook will be waiving all fees on contributions submitted through their ‘Donate’ button. If you are not a Facebook member, you can still make a difference by submitting a donation via various means on our website or via PayPal at bhfer@earthlink.net.

For donations to qualify for the #GivingTuesday (Nov 28th) generous Gates Foundation matching gift offer:

  • Your donation must be made AFTER 8 am EST via the ‘Donate’ button on our Facebook fundraiser page(s).
  • The sooner you make your donation after 8 am EST, the better. A total of $2 million is being offered by the Gates Foundation to all non-profits combined – when the $2 million fund is gone, they will stop matching donations. Getting your donation in early, but after 8 am EST, is most important.

To meet the requirements, we must publish our fundraisers in increments of $1000 and all donations must be made through the ‘Donate’ button on each of our #GivingTuesday Facebook fundraising pages. Once we reach $1000 in a fundraising effort, we will close out that effort and immediately start the next one.

Last year, over $4000 was raised and our goal is to meet, or exceed, that amount again this year. If everyone on our ‘Friends’ and ‘Following’ lists (combined business page and Theresa’s personal page) donate $5, over $30,000 would be raised which could potentially be doubled because of the generous Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matching offer!
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What is #GivingTuesday?

Created by the team at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd Street Y, a cultural center in New York City, #GivingTuesday is an annual global day of giving that harnesses the power of social media and the generosity of people around the world. It kicks off the charitable season when many people focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. Giving Tuesday encourages people to donate money, talent, or time to a nonprofit organization of their choice on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the day after Cyber Monday.

Although we are unable to adhere to the suggested months-long timeline in preparation for #GivingTuesday, due to both not being staffed to have someone responsible for social media and communication, and tending to the round the clock needs of our beloved little herd, we are confident that our campaign will be a tremendous success because of the amazing people that believe in us and support our mission.
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Other ways in which to help Beauty’s Haven this holiday season

  • Take a moment to visit our online store where you can order our beautiful 2018 calendar as well as other gifts for colleagues, friends, and family members.
  • Shop at Amazon via Amazon Smile and select Beauty’s Haven Farm and Equine Rescue, Inc., as your ‘Charity of Choice.’ A portion of your purchase will be donated to the rescue!

As we near the end of 2017, a year that was filled with both heartbreak and joy, we are reminded of the inordinate amount of love and support that we have received from our wonderful little village. Because of each and every one of you, we have been able to continue our most important mission of granting our beloved equines, and other animals, a second chance at life and promising each that all of their tomorrows will be everything that their past should have been.

Beauty’s Haven Farm and Equine Rescue, a place where ‘Life begins, again!’

Wishing you all, a Happy and Blessed Holiday Season!

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November 30th – December 5th 2014 Update

11/30/14

Hooficure Day! Daisy was being a very good girl while getting her feet done!

Betsy Rose was also a very good girl!

December 2nd

Betsy Rose shares her meal with Freckles on GivingTuesday. Little does she know the joy that she gives 24/7/365. What a blessing it is to have her here with us! Betsy Rose Believes!

Daisy waiting at the bottom of the stairs outside of the office. If its not one donk, it’s another. Or two or three!

Guess what broke again? Yep. One of the golf carts. Hauled away to the repair shop. And this is the GOOD golf cart.

Bryce and Serenity are still looking for their forever home. Please spread the word about them. We don’t want to have to split them up – they are mother/son and have been through so much together. We may have to split them up for Bryce to go to a trainer soon. We are turning horses away that need our help. These are two wonderful and healthy horses. More information about them can be found on our Beauty’s Haven Equine Rescue Adoptions page.

December 3rd

While on my way home from Physical Therapy this morning, I stopped just in time to see this beautiful mommy giving birth!

December 4th

Ginny changing flymasks on Sisco and Athena yesterday. Both of these very sweet horses are looking for forever homes as well.

JoJo stood there and stared at the new ramp, like he was pouting, for a good 10 minutes. Then he walked away looking totally confused.

December 5th

I still find myself looking out the window each morning to see if Gentleman is ok – it’s just habit (and wishful thinking). Instead, I find Little E and Mishka hanging out together. Little E is the senior horse here now.

Matilda is one of 13 that got hooficures today. She’s such a sweet girl – she just makes you feel good! If anyone would like to help with the expense of this we would greatly appreciate it. The average cost is $35 but the draft horses now cost over double that ($75). The total came to about $500.

We are very happy to report that Ginger will be going to her new adoptive family on Monday! She won’t be very far – it’s a perfect situation!

It was so good to see Lynda yesterday! I took her for a trip around the farm so she could visit with all of the horses. Handsome, like all of the others, enjoyed the extra attention. As soon as Handsome’s front foot issue is resolved he will be ready for a home!

Peaches is always willing to come in to help fix feed. She’s still unsound on her front right. Dr. Julia recently did nerve blocks and the issue is in her foot. X-rays were done and nothing unusual was found. Dr. Specht believes there may be a bone fragment in the navicular area that we just couldn’t see on the x-ray. Dr. Porter will be here next week to address issues with Peaches, Donovan, and Daisy. If anyone would like to help with the upcoming expense of the x-rays and exams it would be greatly appreciated. It’s not going to be inexpensive.

Donovan has some issues we’ve been working on over the last few months. He stopped sweating in early summer. He had quite a bit of abscessing in his feet and had some rotation in his front left. The “summer sore” he arrived with healed fine. But there are two sores that simply refuse to heal at the coronet band where he blew abscesses – one on the outside front right and the other on the inside back left. I do not believe they are summer sores – I think they are related to sidebone – irregular bony growth he’s had from years of improper foot care. We’ve done a lot to try to get them taken care of but just when we think we’re there he blows another and we start over. Dr. Porter will be checking it out next week. Again, this won’t be inexpensive – x-rays are needed of both front and back feet. Any amount of a donation would be greatly appreciated. This is an issue that must be resolved. We’ve done everything the vets have advised but there is something more to this – there is a reason he keeps abscessing and we need to get to the bottom of it. He’s very good about the hands on treatment of the areas, thankfully.

Mishka always looks like he’s smiling. Always. He’s like a big teddy bear.

Do you remember Spirit? She is a blind mare that we picked up in June 2012. She had endured years of neglect. It was a horrible situation. I’m happy to report that Spirit is doing well in her adoptive home! She lives with another blind mare. Spirit lived in a large herd of horses, including studs, on several acres where there were many trees with low branches, fallen trees, barb wire, debris, etc. I can’t imagine how terrified she must have been on a routine basis. She has got to be one of the bravest horses I’ve ever met. Despite the life she had been living, and her horrid condition, she never lost her spirit. Spirit seemed like the appropriate name for this beautiful but very neglected mare. Here is a link to her story, in more detail, from the beginning.

Lastly, please be sure to check out our latest fundraiser on CrowdRise. There are a few tools we need to help us do our job and to help keep the horses feed healthy.

We are an all volunteer non-profit organization that operates totally off of donations from the public. We are not funded by any local, state, or federal funding. Donations are tax deductible and no amount is too small. Donations can be made to PayPal address bhfer or via various ways on our website at www.bhfer.org. We have had quite a few things hit us at once and I know the upcoming visit by Dr. Porter isn’t going to be inexpensive. Peaches and Donovan are going to need x-rays. Also, Cookie goes back to UF next week for a follow-up. The farrier will be back today for several more. Yesterday was at about $500 and today will be another $150 – $175. If you make a donation please note what the funds are to be applied towards. Thank you for your support!

Lastly – we are switching over to a new email service. In order to ensure you continue to get our updates please go to our website homepage and sign up to receive them. www.bhfer.org. On the home page scroll down until you see this graphic on the left side and sign up!

Emails will only be going out in the current format for another week so please sign up today!

Sincerely,

Theresa

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