If Not For The Kids ……….!
I am really disappointed! Not for the reasons some of you may suspect, because I am very happy with pretty much everything in my personal life.
No, I am upset because I found out today that only $4,700.00 has come in to Lendon Gray’s “Emerging Dressage Star Program”, quite possibly the greatest program ever designed to ensure a golden future for American Dressage!
Even more sad is that $4000.00 of that amount came from one very kind client of Lendon’s.
When I wrote and asked initially that people show their support for this fantastic project by sending $100.00 to The Dressage Foundation, I was certain that, from the hundreds of thousands of horse lovers in the United States, at least 150 people would recognize the importance of what Lendon is doing and chip in what many gladly pay for a dinner for two.
But then friends on Facebook said that perhaps it was smarter to ask people to send whatever they could, be it $10 or $15.00.
And even this obviously didn’t work!
So, now I’m asking my readers to PLEASE help me make this happen. We need another $11,000.00 to get The Emerging Dressage Star Program off the ground so it may begin searching for, finding, and nurturing our kids whose greatest hopes are to one day represent the United States Olympic Dressage Team.
Please contact Lendon at
graydressage@optonline.net or send checks to The Dressage Foundation (address can be found on this site in former article on the EDSP)
Cheers!
RD
Jane Savoie — September 20, 2009 @ 6:26 pm
I know it seems hard to give when we’re in tough economic times, but consider this. It’s an abundant universe…And you can’t be receptive to “receiving” if your fists are clenched tightly shut.
Most of us spend more than $1/day just for a coffee. Give up that coffee one day and make a contribution instead. You won’t regret it!
Ronnie — September 22, 2009 @ 1:10 am
Can donations be made via PayPal? That’s so easy and fast for anyone who already has a PayPal account that it may promt more people to donate a small sum. (I probably would, to be honest, even though I live on the opposite side of the world. Most of us can donate the cost of a latte, and here that’s closer to $5 than $1
)
Rebecca Pennington — September 22, 2009 @ 9:17 am
I contacted Lendon about a paypal account and she referred me to the Dressage Foundation website. But there is NO MENTION at all about the Emerging Dressage Star program on that site and the paypal donation button doesn’t have a way to designate a donation for that program. I wrote her back about that but haven’t heard back from her yet.
Rebecca Pennington — October 1, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
Well, I worked directly with the foundation to make sure my donation was earmarked for this program. They were wonderful about it. Hope the numbers are up.