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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Do you excel at administrative work? Do you care about forgotten/abused teens? If so, we need your help! Spring Reins of Life is searching for an administrative assistant(s) to help us keep solvent and in touch as we work to pull out of a 15 month Covid19-NJ lockdown. This would include: Maintaining project spreadsheets and contacts for potential sponsors, donors, and supports (both in funding and good/services Researching and creating outreach steps to secure needed items of donation, or discounts to apply towards the things we will need for the Herd and farm Some projects would include crowd funding measures and/or social media platform utilization to get the funding needs for specific projects out to the public to garner needed support Create unique ways of getting our message out and to advocate in our community for specialty volunteers and also potential programming partners to engage once Covid restrictions are lifted Assistance provided to SRoL's volunteer coordinator to keep help and support coming (both physically and virtually) While much of work would be done remotely, we ask that you be local to/ or at least have knowledge of our area in Central New Jersey. In our arena, horses save lives! Since 2012, Spring Reins of Life has offered equine-assisted therapy to over 1300 at-risk teens and over 1000 NJ veterans. The majority of our clients do not want to or simple can not "talk about it". Most have never been around a horse before, yet they tell us it's the one thing that can bring them peace, present moment and rebuild trust. Consider joining our Herd from the back of the barn (behind the scenes).
Date Posted: Jul 26, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Three Bridges, NJ 08887
We need superstar volunteers who have ample horse experience to assist our Equine Specialist with basic barn chores. If you enjoy taking care of horses, we invite you to come and help care for a very special small herd of horses (and 3 donkeys) who change and save lives for a living. Duties include: Taking GREAT care of the herd of 4 legged therapists who save lives and help trauma survivors heal. This includes washing water buckets, maintaining outside water sources, filling hay nets, sweeping, and cleaning of the stalls daily. Cleaning up manure/hay from dry lot, indoor/outdoor arenas, and smaller paddocks close to the barn. The herd includes 4 horses, 3 donkeys. 7 stalls on shavings. Barn volunteers are taught the patterns, the tools and the specific chores needed in the SRoL barn. All barn volunteers on a trial run in the beginning to determine fit. Spring Summer Evenings (May through October): Spring / Summer Barn Shifts are in the late afternoon/evening (approx. 630-930pm) as the horses are outside during the night and inside during the day, the stalls and barn need to be cleaned to prepare for them coming back in. There is also some outdoor paddock clean up needed in the areas close to the barn. Note: There is also a shorter midday/early afternoon shift available to students, retirees, or adults to maintain outdoor pastures, weather permitting. This could be after school hours a couple of days per week. Please inquire with us. VOLUNTEER SERVICE HOURS COUNT: SRoL will verify/validate service hours for those who come here and give their heart and hard work to the herd that heals. This counts for NHS, Boy/Girl Scouts, School Service Hours, Church Groups, and more. Because of the AMAZING work these horses do and the miracles they set forth, we are picky about their care. If you are detail-oriented, this will be a fit. :) See our 4-legged trainers in action at https://youtu.be/bhykEwv1tNo We hope to see you at the farm!
Date Posted: Jul 16, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Three Bridges, NJ 08887
Would you like to support our work helping veterans and at-risk youth while maintaining social distance? We would love to have your help collecting supplies for our horses and donkeys who provide therapy to trauma survivors. If you are local to our Three Bridges, NJ location, collect supplies and make arrangements to drop off at our facility. If you are out of the area, consider collecting gift cards or making donations via our Amazon Wish List. What do you need to do? Check our Donation Wish List to see what items are needed. Set up a box or bin for donors to drop off their donations. Decorate the box if you’d like - this is an especially good idea for children’s groups. Publicize your supply drive. Make sure you have a good place to store your donations until you take them to the farm. Once your donation drive is complete, call or email to make arrangements to drop off your items at location in Three Bridges. Congratulate yourself on a job well done! This is a great project for scouts, church groups, school groups and anyone who wants to make a difference in the lives of our 4-legged therapists! Click on "I want to help" and we will provide you with a Wish LIst and more specific instructions to make your supply drive a success.
Date Posted: Jul 26, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Three Bridges, NJ 08887
SRoL is Looking for Amazing Administrative Support. We need volunteers who are local to New Jersey (Closest to Hunterdon/Somerset County is best). All work can be completed remotely, however to organize, hand over paper documents/information to be organized and compiled - having local volunteers to do this would be ideal. Spring Reins of Life 501c3 (SROL) is a volunteer run organization which allows us to offer the majority of all of our funding to programming costs benefiting veteran & youth trauma survivors in New Jersey. Because SRoL operates with the support of dedicated and passionate volunteers we are always seeking people with skilled experience that can help us grow and continue our mission of serving veterans, at risk teens and young children suffering loss. Are you an expert at various administrative skills? Are you passionate about ending the 22+ veteran suicides per day? Do you love horses? Care about forgotten/abused teens? If so and you love horses, please contact us right away! Can you give SRoL a few hours per week? If so - please let us know what interests you from the following list. DATABASE MANAGEMENT. SRoL is building several - Volunteers, Donors, Sponsors, Advocates, Community Outreach, Town/State/National political interest, etc. Skill-set is in Excel. This role is hugely important to our growth. The person fulfilling this role must be reliable, detail oriented, professional, and able to interact on behalf of SRoL. This volunteer would report to and work with the Chairman of our board. RESEARCHING VARIOUS PROJECTS/ INTERESTS FOR SRoL. Are you really good at digging for information and assimilating that? Often we come up with specific needs or activities that will require several pieces to come to fruition. A talented researching mind is needed here to help us find the contacts who are most suited to helping with a project or our programming. Sponsor outreach, unique funding opportunities, community contacts, etc.) End use information/ lists would be added to the appropriate database. GENERAL OFFICE ASSISTANCE - labeling, filing, sorting, cleaning, organizing, etc. As a HIPAA compliant provider some documents are private/ confidential so discretion would be inserted. This option must be for someone local to Three Bridges area who can come to the office on the farm to provide assistance. CREATE PRESENTATIONS (Powerpoint or other platforms). Periodically SRoL is asked to present our work to an audience. Can be for students of mental health, veterans agencies, high schools with at risk population, etc. We seek someone with expertise at creating engaging presentations which can include photos, videos, media and other graphics to leave a lasting impression. DONOR-SPONSOR-VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION CERTIFICATES. This task is fairly simple yet needs someone to pay attention to it and keep records. SRoL enjoys sending donors, sponsors, outstanding volunteers, and even clients "Appreciation or Recognition Certificates" - a caring, detail oriented volunteer is who we seek to take ownership of this process. DONOR & DIK RECEIPT MANAGEMENT. SRoL is looking for a skilled administrative assistant to handle creating, logging, updating, printing, have CC sign, filing copy, and mailing original donation receipts for monetary donations (donors) as well as goods & services donations (DIK). The process will be taught to the right volunteer who then would be in charge of managing this aspect of SRoL's paperwork and vital outreach and correspondence. This volunteer would work directly with cofounder, and report to both SRoL treasurer and vice chairman depending on topics. This role would require monthly activity of a few hours and then some extra time in the autumn to outreach and track year end donations. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO COFOUNDER. Local volunteer only as physical presence is required. Co-founder of SRoL, Christianna Capra (CC) has too many hats to wear, SRoL is seeking a skilled admin to help organize, create schedules, create call back lists, help bullet point weekly lists, instill calendar deadlines, help to organize and spearhead projects and outreach efforts, assist in mail merges for mailings, help to coordinate other admin volunteers, assist CC in her to do lists for events and other outreach or awareness efforts. They say it takes a village, and we are building one! Please "LIKE" us on Facebook, Follow on Twitter and help spread the word. If you shop online - check out iGive: over 1700 name stores with huge discounts - respectable % of proceeds go to nonprofits. Register at iGive for Spring Reins of Life (we are also listed/verified on AmazonSmile). In our world - Horses are the key to managing, coping and excelling beyond trauma. Veterans, At Risk/High Risk Youth and Bereaved Young Children. The majority of our clients either do not want to or simply cannot "talk about it". Most have never been around a horse before, yet they tell us its the one thing that can bring them peace, present moment and rebuild trust... "Sometimes life's most complex and difficult questions...just may be resolved with the help and guidance of...A HORSE!"
Date Posted: Jul 26, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Three Bridges, NJ 08887
Spring Reins of Life (SROL) is seeking volunteers to help clean up on the farm to prepare for the upcoming week of therapy sessions for veterans and at-risk youth. Volunteer hours are on both Saturdays and Sundays from 11am-2pm. We also have farm projects. In the winter or inclement weather, we have plenty to do indoors. We are limiting shifts to 4 volunteers for ease of social distancing. Ongoing regular duties include: Barn Cleaning: waiting room, group room, bathrooms (2), sweeping, dusting/ cob-webbing, etc. Healthy amount of manure management (picking manure from paddocks, dry-lots, arenas, etc) Cleaning and refreshing session (programming) equipment Landscaping, weeding, watering plants Scrubbing water buckets, water troughs Our farm animals include horses, donkeys, goats, a mini-pony and a barn cat. Horse experience is not necessary, we will train you. Teens welcome, 13 and under with an adult. Small groups/families (4 or less) are welcome to volunteer together! You can sign up for your first trial shift here: https://signup.com/go/xVOAKOH. Contact volunteer@springreinsoflife.org if you have any questions, or would like to make arrangements for a larger volunteer group or corporate volunteering. See you down on the farm!
Date Posted: Jul 26, 2022
