Healing Hooves
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Dream it.
Planting the seeds of confidence, courage, and compassion.
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Build it.
Constructing pathways of healing for horses and humans alike.
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Grow it.
Where confidence blooms and healing takes root.
Make it
Healing Hooves is Rainfall Ranch Rescue’s equestrian education and therapeutic program, created to empower underserved and underrepresented girls with and without disabilities in rural communities.
Through hands-on horsemanship, horse care, and mentorship, participants build self-confidence, leadership skills, and resilience in a safe, inclusive environment.
Offered at no cost, the 14-week program combines structured equine activities with social-emotional learning, helping girls overcome barriers such as isolation, limited access to services, and economic hardship.
Guided by trained volunteers and a skilled Program Director, Healing Hooves fosters growth, trust, and connection—transforming both horses and humans through the power of partnership.
Sports 4 Life offers community funding and seeks to effect sustainable improvement to the overall health and development of girls in these communities through grant making, leadership training and capacity-building efforts.
Sports 4 Life offers community funding and seeks to effect sustainable improvement to the overall health and development of girls in these communities through grant making, leadership training and capacity-building efforts.
Sports 4 Life, cofounded by the Women’s Sports Foundation and ESPN in 2014, was created based on the knowledge that while sports participation offers tremendous life-long benefits – from improved physical health and self-esteem, to better grades in school and enhanced leadership skills – young girls do not have equal access to play. For example, African-American girls are less likely to be current players (28.3%) and most likely to have never played sports (54.5%) compared to other groups examined (Zarrett, Veliz, & Sabo, 2020). Additionally, girls of color are shortchanged in the public-school setting where they have far more limited opportunity to participate in physical activity/sports than boys of color and white peers (NWLC, 2015).
The program seeks to address the disparities in access to sports.
2025 funding is made possible by co-founding partner ESPN and national partner Gatorade.
We Are IN This together.
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