You Can Make an Impact

Your tax-deductible gift helps provide equine-assisted services to children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges across Central Texas. Thank you for your donation and ensuring that ROCK participants continue to gain independence and life skills in partnership with the horse.

Prefer to donate by mail? Check donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 2422, Georgetown, TX 78626.

More Ways to Give

Horseshoe Club

ROCK Horseshoe Club is made up of sponsors who provide for the care and feeding of ROCK therapy horses. Sponsorship of a horse through a monthly or annual gift provides for the ongoing needs of the ROCK herd.

Horseshoe Club sponsors receive:

Adopted horse certificate
Sponsor plaque
Commemorative picture
Recognition on ROCK website
Updates throughout the year on the horse’s status and program achievements

Horseshoe Club Members are encouraged to meet their horse and observe the successes that their horse enables its riders to accomplish during a session. Want to meet our herd or search for a horse to sponsor? Click here to meet our herd

Ready to sponsor a horse? Click here to learn more or email Karah Powell at Karah@ROCKride.org.

Amazon Wish List

You can find a list of our currently needed items and purchase them directly on our Amazon Wish List here.

In-Kind Gifts

Do you have a piece of equipment, supplies, service or other good you’d like to donate to ROCK? We are always looking for the following items in new or gently used condition:

Halters, saddles and other tack
Feed, hay and other horse care supplies
Office supplies
Art supplies
Farm equipment

For equine-related donations, email Devon Felts at Devon@ROCKride.org

For all other in-kind donations, email Karah Powell at Karah@ROCKride.org

Annual Giving Events

Mark your calendars now for these special annual giving events that support ROCK’s annual operating budget.

GivingTuesday (November 29, 2022)
Amplify Austin (March 2023 – Exact date TBD)
Barn Dance (April 1, 2023)

Find more information and view all upcoming events on our calendar.

Endowments

Grow your gift when you invest in these community endowment programs.

Chisholm Trail Community Foundation
chisholm-trail.org
512-863-4186

Greater Round Rock Community Foundation
rrcommunityfoundation.org
512-514-0046

Stocks & Securities

Provide a gift for the future when you donate stocks and securities to ROCK. We’ve provided an easy-to-follow guide for donating your securities to ROCK here.

Legacy of Hope

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 for years to come. Your legacy gift to ROCK will ensure the mission of improving independence and life skills in partnership with the horse is able to continue for years to come for many more families. Click here to learn more and to become a member.

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 2020-2021, ROCK served 128 children, 60 adults, and 181 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, 76 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.