Dear Donor,
One of the reasons why we are fundraising on an open platform at GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/9xcfag and http://www.gofundme.com/fujloc is to provide transparency and education. Your donations are tax-deductible as well. Our transparency is important and crowd funding encourages transparency. We also accept donations via PayPal to Contact@Protect Mustangs.org Most people have no idea how much is really being donated to orgs and how much the true cost is to feed and care for rescued wild horses for example.
Out on public land it costs basically nothing to have wild horses and burros because they are part of the eco-system and fill their niche. It’s important to fight for their freedom to live in the wild.
Our plan is to create a sustainable eco-sanctuary where the the wild horses can graze and we can grow hay for the winter. The WY14 will be allowed to live in sanctuary and to be observed by visitors, students, artists, veterans, etc. They will only be minimally gentled to provide foot care and other care as needed but otherwise left in peace. The other wild horses in our Outreach Program are Ambassadors that interface with the public in a hands on way and will go to events to champion and encourage wild horse adoption as well as bust prejudice against WILD horses.
Val for example has already dispelled many myths to a lot of DVMs and vet students at UC Davis. It’s beautiful to watch it happen. Maybe now some of those people will think slaughtering wild horses is a bad idea because they met Val.
We are a national nonprofit organization based in California. Donations made directly to us via www.PayPal.com or by mail to Protect Mustangs, PO Box 5661, Berkeley, Ca. 94705 should be tax-deductible retroactively as we are filing with the IRS in 2014. Meanwhile the Andean Tapir Fund (501c3) is our fiscal sponsor while ours is in the works. When we have our own 501c3 status then we will start a fundraising campaign to create the ecosanctuary. In the meantime we need to feed, board, train and care for the wild horses in our program. We are 100% volunteer–no salaries. Your tax-deductible donations are going to the wild horses in our program.
Hay is extremely expensive and the only power we have to get a better rate is if we buy semi truck loads. We haven’t been able to raise that kind of money so we buy it in blocks of 30 bales or less at a time. Most rescues and sanctuaries are struggling with hay prices so high. For example, in the SF Bay Area hay retails for $25 a bale. In Reno the hay is cheaper. We always are sourcing out better prices to stretch out donor dollars.
We are not funded by corporations, oil, gas or big pharma so we have no conflicts of interest. We can speak out without any hidden agenda. Read this week’s Washington Post article to see how we often champion to the voiceless wild horses: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/feds-to-gather-nuisance-mustangs-in-nevada/2014/10/23/d8ef5aae-5ade-11e4-9d6c-756a229d8b18_story.html
We are here for the wild horses, period. We are a dynamic org and we need more volunteers so let me know if you would like to help : )
Many blessings,
Anne
Anne Novak
Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
Contact@ProtectMustangs.org
(Photo of Ghost Dancer taken in October 2014)
Thank you, Protect Mustangs, for all you are doing for our wild free-roaming horses and burros.
Wild horses and burro’s need everybody’s help. So, if you can help with the care. So, that we can safe them and keep them alive. Please, help them.
I think that if everyone could see a wild horse or burro in the wild they would be shocked by the difference in them compared to being in BLM holding pens. Heads held high bright alert eyes proud of the life they lead strong intelligent animals living the life they were born to live. Then look at them in those holding pens. They hang their heads their eyes are sad and dull they whinny mournfully for their colts or colts for them and the studs are so confused and want to fight but as time drags by they all give up and you can see it when it happens it’s in their eyes. The BLM will tell you they don’t have shade or shelter from the cold and wind in the wild so they don’t need it . That is so wrong they aren’t the same horses and burros they were when they were free they don’t know how to handle tiny spaces or being without their families. Everything they stand for has been taken away from them. Please have compassion for them and help it’s not to much to ask considering BLM has taken everything else from them.