Your Gift Changes Lives
Join Boots in the Dirt, our dedicated friends who support ROCK with a monthly gift. Your consistent support helps improve independence and life skills in partnership with the horse.
The Legacy of Hope was created to honor individuals and families who have included ROCK in their estate plans. Their gifts will have a lasting impact on ROCK’s participants, families, and community.
The ROCK Horseshoe Club sponsors provide essential care and feeding for ROCK horses. With a monthly or annual gift, you can help meet the ongoing needs of our beloved herd, ensuring they get the best care.
You can find a list of our currently needed items and purchase them directly on our Amazon Wish List here.
Where the Horses Heal the Soul is a documentary film commissioned by George & Dr. Barbara Brightwell to tell the story of ROCK and Healing Thru Horses.
Click here to learn more about In-Kind Gifts, Stocks & Securities and Endowments.
How can you help?
Please consider investing your time, talent, or treasure in ROCK.
Share the good news about what we are doing at ROCK with your family & friends. Come out for a tour of ROCK & bring a friend.
Invite us to tell your club, friends, or family about ‘Healing Thru Horses’.
ROCK Giving Opportunities
End of Year Giving (Dec 1-31, 2024)
Amplify Austin – WilCo (March 5, 2025)
Barn Dance (March 29, 2025)
Horseshoe Club: Year-round sponsorship of a horse (Email Karah)
Donate a horse or tack (Email Victoria)
Donate a piece of equipment that we can use at ROCK (Email Karah)
Do you order from Amazon? Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to ROCK! Click here to find out more.
Check out our Amazon WishList here and purchase a much needed item and have it sent directly to ROCK.
Improving independence and life skills in partnership with the horse since 1998
ROCK offers equine-assisted services to children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges. Our diverse population of participants come from Williamson and eight surrounding counties in Central Texas and range in age from 2 to 82.
Did you know…
- In 2022-2023, ROCK served 125 children, 121 adults, and 156 veterans & families
- Some of the common diagnoses we work with include ADHD, autism spectrum, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, developmental delay, PTSD, seizure disorder, speech delay, traumatic brain injury, and visual impairment
→ Click here to learn more about ROCK’s programs
How Your Gift is Used
When you give to ROCK, 78 cents out of every dollar goes directly to programs and services.
What ROCK participants & families say
When I am riding … I forget that I am in a wheelchair and I feel like I can do anything. I feel Free!
When I signed up for this program I just figured I would get out of the house for a little while, learn about horses, and get to ride them. I can honestly say I have gotten that and so much more. ROCK has become a safe place for me, a home away from home.
The benefits of therapeutic horseback riding are seen in her increased independence, physical strength and stamina, following directions, verbal and social skills. She has improved her interactions with not only the horses, but the instructors, clients, and clients’ families. She now rides with limited support. ROCK has laid a rock solid foundation for us to build on.
Thank You to Our Foundation Partners and Sponsors!
You can view an extensive list of all ROCK donors, sponsors and community partners in our annual report found here. Thank you so much to all of our community foundation partners and sponsors for continuing to support ROCK.
