Success Stories

EQUI-KIDS Therapeutic Riding Program

After three years of guidance from The Curtis Group, EQUI-KIDS Therapeutic Riding Program has achieved its dream of owning its own home. For 13 years the organization has leased its current 30-acre tract of farmland, a lot whose size and lack of title have prohibited EQUI-KIDS from expanding its programs to serve more special-needs individuals, including the 350 riders currently on a waiting list.

With the $5.3 million campaign goal raised, Phase 1 and Phase 2 of this three-phase project are complete. In the summer of 2009, the organization moved operations to its new 92-acre home, which includes a 24-stall horse barn and 5,300-square-foot administrative building. The organization is proud to move to its new home debt-free and won’t begin construction on the project’s final phase, an indoor riding arena, until raising an additional $400,000. Once complete, EQUI-KIDS’ new facility will be one of the largest riding centers on the East Coast dedicated solely to those with physical and mental disabilities.