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Speedway Children’s Charities Supports Shining Hope Farms for 11th Year
Press Release: It was announced last month that one of the Speedway Children’s Charities grantees receiving a portion of the $785,400 granted would be Mt. Holly based nonprofit Shining Hope Farms.
Speedway Children’s Charities Supports Shining Hope Farms for 10th Year
MOUNT HOLLY, NC – It was announced at the end of the year that one of the Speedway Children's Charities grantees receiving a portion of the $406,000 granted would be Mt. Holly based nonprofit Shining Hope Farms—a nonprofit that provides equine assisted activities and...
Gary, a Navy Veteran with dementia, was found, lost, and found again at Shining Hope Farms.
Gary was one of the first participants in Saddles & Salutes, a special program we started about a year ago to help Veterans experiencing physical, emotional, and community reintegration challenges. Saddles and Salutes uses riding and working with horses to...
Grant from Lincoln County Community Foundation to Support Equine Assisted Activities & Therapies
We are so pleased to announce that Shining Hope Farms has received a grant from the Lincoln County Community Foundation to help create affordable access to equine assisted activities and therapies for Lincoln County participants. It may come as a surprise to learn...
Shining Hope Farms 5k/10k Salute Trail Run
Join us for our Inaugural Shining Hope Farms 5k/10k Salute Trail Run at our Conover farm September 11th, 2021. We will be honoring veterans, first responders, law enforcement, and those we lost on 9/11. Come enjoy the beautiful 5 miles of trails on our sprawling 120...
Another Successful Love Week in the Books
This past week, generous volunteers from Elevation Church spent their #LOVEweek doing some amazing service work at Shining Hope Farms' Mt. Holly and Charlotte locations. Joan Rex, Outreach Liaison at Elevation Church LKN describes LOVE Week as "Not just a week long...
Inaugural Shining Hope Farms Service Award for Volunteerism
Last week we presented longtime volunteer Harvey Thomas with our first ever Shining Hope Farms Service Award. The Shining Hope Farms Service Award is given to an individual that loves the mission of our organization and is committed to seeing us fulfil that purpose.
Shining Hope Farms Selected as North Mecklenburg Women’s Club Gold Charity
Shining Hope Farms is ecstatic and proud to have learned that we will be a Gold Charity of the North Mecklenburg Woman’s Club for the upcoming year.
Volunteer Celebration
Last week we were so thrilled to be able to celebrate our generous and selfless volunteers at our Volunteer Celebration, with the help of Elevation Outreach. Thank you to everyone who came out. Our volunteers are what make our programs run. Each year, the volunteers...
Grant from Carrie E. and Lena V. Glenn Foundation to Support Therapy Services Program
We are so pleased to announce that Shining Hope Farms has received a grant from the Carrie E. and Lena V. Glenn Foundation to support our Therapy Services program at our Gaston County location in Mt. Holly. The purpose of the grant is to continue our efforts of...
Shining Hope Farms Designated EQUUS Foundation 2021 Guardian.
The purpose of the Guardians program is to encourage equine organizations to be transparent and accountable to the public through the disclosure of their equine care and use practices.
Shining Hope Farms Receives Grant from The Cannon Foundation to Replace Farm Truck
We are pleased to announce we have received a $40,000 grant from The Cannon Foundation located in Concord, North Carolina to purchase a replacement farm truck, to be used by our three locations.
Full Metal Chicken Wins #BizGivesCLT Award for In-Kind Donation to Shining Hope Farms
Shining Hope Farms has worked repeatedly with top notch digital marketing firm Full Metal Chicken over the past few years. They have been very generous to us and that is why we were thrilled when they won a #BizGivesCLT award for the Most Generous In-Kind Gift to a Charlotte area nonprofit on account of their work with Shining Hope Farms.
Shining Hope Farms Receives Goodie Award for its Board of Directors
Last week, Shining Hope Farms was fortunate enough to receive a Goodie Award from SHARE Charlotte–a nonprofit that brings together and works on behalf of hundreds of Charlotte area nonprofits. What the award was for was unexpected, but not all together a surprise.
What We Did Over the Holidays
Shining Hope Farms was quite busy over the Christmas & New Year’s break. We often use this time while kids are not on horses to upgrade the facilities and have jobs performed that we cannot do during regular business days.
Speedway Children’s Charities Supports Shining Hope Farms for Ninth Year
It was announced earlier this month during the Speedway Children’s Charities’ annual grant reception that one of the grantees receiving a portion of the $957,323 granted would be Mt. Holly based nonprofit Shining Hope Farms.
Meet Charlie
Meet Charlie! As you can imagine from the pictures and videos, this handsome little man greets Shining Hope Farms staff, volunteers and equines with smiles, high fives and fist bumps every week! This enthusiasm, love and perseverance are true testaments of Charlie’s personality and attitude toward life, since doctors and therapy appointments have been frequent occurrences for Charlie in his 5 years of life.
Bryson’s and Odie’s Story
We got the call in November, 2017, to foster a beautiful little boy named Bryson. He was at Brenner’s Children’s Hospital for dehydration, neglect, and scabies. He was about seven months old. It was love at first sight for us.
Feed A Therapy Horse for #GivingTuesdayCLT
Mark your calendars, Giving Tuesday is around the corner- December 3rd, and YOU have GOOD to give! Last year you took our breath away with your efforts to help us reach our goal, and this year the same goal is back: To Feed All of the Gentle Giants Who Help Our...
Craft Fair and Equine Trail Sports Event Happening This Weekend
Get excited! We have a great weekend coming up at our Conover Farm with our first ever craft and vendor fair along with Equine Trail Sports events taking place Saturday and Sunday.
It’s time to Shop for Good CLT!
Did you know that you could support our work by shopping for the items that we need most from our Amazon wish list on SHARE Charlotte’s Give Shop®? Shop for us and hundreds of other local nonprofits August 4th-9th at shopforgoodclt.org! In just a few clicks, items we...