BRINGING HAPPINESS, HOPE AND WELLBEING THROUGH THE USE OF MINIATURE HORSES
Mission
Lifting Spirits Miniature Therapy Horses mission is to provide mobile equine assisted activity services to children and adults of all ages and abilities. Research has shown that equine therapy has positive mental, social,
educational, spiritual and physical benefits. We use our own trained miniature horses, to bring happiness, hope, and a sense of wellbeing to men, women and children of all ages and needs.
Winston featured on
Chronicle WCVB TV Channel 5 Boston
Our therapy minis Peaches and Idaho featured on
Boston Fox 25 News
About Us
We visit all age groups, young to old, with all types of disabilities and needs. We try to never turn away anyone or facility that contacts us.
We have volunteers that help with our visits and are always working on new programs to expand our reach.
We are a federally recognized 501c3. As a nonprofit organization, we rely solely on donations, grants, sponsorships and fundraising to carry out our mission.
100% of funds received go directly into our miniature horses for rescuing, training, horse care and supplies. The biggest challenge we face is maintaining
the funds to support outreach to all the communities that can benefit from our unique therapy programs. Larger grants and donations allow us to focus our efforts
on scheduling and conducting visits, and have the biggest impact on the communities around us.
Horse care is expensive, so we aim to translate our fundraising requests into real services. For example, $100 can feed and care for one of our horses for a month, and
$200 can provide an hour long visit to a local nursing home, veterans center, children’s hospital or school. The more visits we can do, the more people’s lives we can touch.
Lifting Spirits offers so much more than traditional animal therapy. In addition to medically-related visits to nursing homes, hospitals and VAs, we participate in:
• Just Say Whoa® to Bullying (a national program aimed at teaching children to be upstanders to bullying, not bystanders);
• Horse Powered Reading® (a literacy program for children and adults);
• Valor (partnerships with local law enforcement to engage with citizens in a positive way); and
• A veterans program coming in 2024
