HAPI Trails - Horse Adoption Program - $1,500The Community Foundation of Teton Valley was honored to award a $1,500 partial grant to the HAPI Trails Horse Adoption Program to support the construction of quarantine stalls and an outdoor vet stall to allow the rescue of higher-risk animals in poor health within the community. HAPI Trails receives more requests to intake abused, abandoned, and …
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Community Counts: HAPI Trails Horse Rescue
Horses have incredible hearing, with the ability to hear the heartbeat of a human from four feet away. In the wild, horses will synchronize their heartbeats to the other horses in the herd in order to sense danger more quickly. Studies have shown that domesticated horses will also use this tactic when interacting with humans, synchronizing to our heartbeats, thus sensing slight adjustments in our …
Competitive Grant Awards 2021: HAPI Trails – Horse Adoption Program
Horse Shelters – Awarded $4,967The Community Foundation of Teton Valley was honored to award this grant to HAPI Trails to purchase two portable horse shelters to increase their capacity by 8 animals.Hapi Trails is regularly at an “at capacity” status with pens full of horses looking for their forever home. They have additional space available, but this space does not have shelter for the …
2021 Competitive Grant Awards
Thanks to the generosity of Tin Cup Challengers, the Community Foundation was able to award 15 Competitive Grants to Teton Valley nonprofits through this year’s Competitive Grant Program. In total, $56,645 was awarded to directly support programs and projects that will elevate lives in Teton Valley.Twenty-four organizations submitted applications for a total ask of $91,427. …
Working Remotely: Week 5
Community Emergency Response FundThe Community Foundation of Teton Valley’s Community Emergency Response Fund has grown to over $100,000 through generous donations from our community! This amazing response shows just how much our valley truly cares for its neighbors. In that light Targhee Athletics, in an effort to help the community two-fold, held a 21-Day Teton Valley Strong …
HAPI Trails: Veterinarian Stock
$1,000 – Veterinarian StockTeton High School Seniors called on some of their more experienced peers to conclude the importance of a Veterinarian Stock for HAPI Trails during this year’s Youth Philanthropy Program. Given that HAPI Trails takes in abused, abandoned and neglected horses, Seniors understood the importance of a solid veterinarian stock for horses that are not conditioned …