Volunteer Opportunities

Thank you for your interest in volunteer opportunities at Ride with Pride. It takes more than 30 volunteers per week to run our program, and more than 300 volunteers donate their time to our program annually.

Our dedicated core of volunteers provide consistent hands-on support to our riders that makes the Ride with Pride experience one of the best. If you believe you have what it takes to become one of our volunteers, please fill out the on-line Volunteer Information Form.

In 2010, more than 300 volunteers donated over 5,000 hours of service to therapeutic riding at Ride with Pride. Using the Independent Sector's approved value of a volunteer hour ($23.29), our volunteers contributed $123,804 worth of service to our program. Our volunteers experience first hand the success that riders achieve with their guidance and encouragement. Volunteers work in all aspects of our program.

There is a wide range of volunteer opportunities. Please review the Volunteer Interest Form to help guide your choice.

Riding Lesson Volunteers work directly with the instructors to provide assistance prior to and during lessons. They tack horses and work as leaders (horse handlers) or side-walkers (providing verbal encouragement and/or physical support to the rider) throughout classes.

Barn Volunteers assist with grooming and saddling horses for lessons. They also help with sweeping floors, cleaning water troughs, general cleaning, maintenance, painting and other barn responsibilities.

Special Committees are made up entirely of volunteers who spend countless hours supporting our program and planning for its growth and advancement into the future.

Summer Camp Volunteers work with summer campers participating in daily riding lessons, barn activities, art projects, nature activities and more.

Maintenance Volunteers help keep our facility running smoothly and looking good by assisting with cleaning, trash removal, mowing, weeding, light carpentry and other "handyman"-type jobs.

Office Volunteers help with all types of projects, such as sorting and stapling, making phone calls, addressing envelopes, filing and more.

Special Event Volunteers help plan our fund-raising events or work as volunteers on the day of the event.

We appreciate each volunteer's dedication of time and energy. Without these generous people, very few of our riders would have the opportunity to mount up and "Walk on!".