Equine Rescue Calendar Raises Funds for Equine Advocacy Group
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The front of the Horses and Hope calendar.
Edited press release
The team behind the popular Horses and Hope calendar will raise funds again this year with a 2014 calendar benefiting One Horse At A Time, an equine advocacy group that awards grants to equine rescues and individuals in need in the equine industry.
Award-winning equine photographer Sarah K. Andrew and designer Gina Keesling of Hoofprints.com will again collaborate on this collection of over 100 photos of horses at equine rescues, in auction houses, and in their adoptive homes. The 2012 calendar, Horses and Hope: My Year at the Auction, and the 2013 calendar, Horses and Hope: Faces of Rescue, raised over $80,000 for One Horse At A Time, Inc. (OHAAT), a 501(c)(3) organization based in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
With the funds received from the 2012 and 2013 calendars, OHAAT awarded gelding and emergency medical grants, hosted gelding clinics, and distributed emergency feed for more than 600 horses.
"Those of us who have these calendars know how special they are,” said OHAAT co-founder Penny Austin. “Not only are they a work of art, they are an incredible teaching tool, but most of all, they are a resounding testament to the power of each one of us doing just one thing – and how each of our ‘just one thing’ combined with everyone else's has the power to move mountains.”
Red Bank, NJ resident Sarah Andrew took the calendar’s photos at farms and rescues in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Since January 2010, Andrew has worked with a network of volunteers and photographed over 5,000 horses who needed homes or were are at risk of entering the slaughter pipeline.
Gina Keesling of Alexandria, Indiana designs and publishes the calendars. Founded in 1986, her HoofPrints.com offers farrier, equine, and canine art and products.
The 2014 Horses and Hope: Every Horse Has a Story calendar costs $19.95 and is now available at http://www.hoofprints.com/ska. One-hundred percent of the proceeds are donated. In addition to the funds donated to One Horse At A Time, a small portion of the proceeds will be set aside for Simon's Legacy Fund, a project sponsored by New Jersey-based 501(c)(3) organization Helping Hearts Equine Rescue, Inc., to help retired draft horses.
For further information about the Horses and Hope calendar, contact Gina Keesling at 800-741-5054 or visit http://www.hoofprints.com.
For further information about One Horse At A Time, Inc., contact Penny Austin at 859-402-6790 or visit http://www.onehorseatatime.org.
For further information about Helping Hearts Equine Rescue, Inc., contact Lisa Post at 732-786-9015 or visit http://www.hher.webs.com.