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This project was completed on Jun 8, 2020
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Website Construction (CMS-Based)
Spring Reins of Life, Inc.
Spring Reins of Life, Inc.
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Website Construction (CMS-Based)
Project details
What we need
- Development of a new website using a Content Management System (CMS)
- Training to ensure Organization's staff members can update content and manage the site post-launch
- Note: This project is for a website built with a Content Management System (CMS), such as Wordpress, Squarespace, Joomla, Drupal, or Weebly . A CMS-based website can be maintained and updated easily (no coding required!)
Additional details
Spring Reins of Life website needs an overhaul. We are hosted by Bluehost and have a Wordpress site and could move to a Wordpress template. Looking for something that communicates 1. our mission and offering to trauma survivors 2. our needs from donors and volunteers 3. our results/interaction.
*All to be updated regularly to stay fresh and current. Make it easier to find "how you can help".
What we have in place
- We currently have wordpress site hosted by bluehost, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have badges to post on the site (paypal, great nonprofits, etc), and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $16,822 , allowing us to to attract more donors and volunteers. Our current site is outdated and it's not easy to find navigate or find information.
We are losing traction from the website as it is hard to navigate. Need "Donate" and "Vollunteer" up front and easy to find. We'd also like a more interactive portion for clients and donors to see what we do and why horses for trauma recovery.
We are also reorganizing / expanding our reach to who we can help so want that to match up with the website.
Project plan
Posted by
Christianna C.
Co-founder, ES
Our mission
To provide a safe, healing and empowered path to peace, positive growth and self-guided recovery for those suffering trauma and loss with the assistance of horses as our guides.
Spring Reins of Life serves groups of trauma survivors in the central New Jersey region, namely Veterans, Teens, Women, Children and more. We have learned that many trauma survivors either do not want to (or) simply cannot "talk about it". That is there the Horses can help!
What we do
Spring Reins of Life is dedicated to promoting psychological healing, emotional well-being and personal growth using the skills of mental health professionals and the assistance of horses.
Spring Reins of Life is an EAGALA Model (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) certified program which provides group format EAP services for moderate to severe trauma survivors. ALL of our services are provided for no cost or very low cost based on community fundraising and public/private donations awarded to cover our programming expenses. This service is proving to be very effective for moderate to severe trauma survivors who either do not want to (or) simply cannot "talk about it".
EAP (Equine Assisted Psychotherapy) *HIPPA compliant unmounted program in group formats (no horse experience needed).
Operation Horse (Veterans)
Coming Home (Veteran Families)
Horses & Teens (at-risk Teen)
Pony Pals (Child bereavement)
In 2014, Spring Reins of Life (SRoL) was the first EAGALA New Jersey program to earn and retain the "Military Services Provider" certification.
Since 2012 SRoL has served the PTSD units at Lyons Campus VA
There are been nearly 800 Veterans, over 1300 Teens and 135 young children in bereavement who have graced our arena gates. The horses we honor as our most accomplished colleagues. Horses rebuild confidence. Horses provide present moment. Horses give us the chance to build trust. Horses offer peace. Horses save lives.
How can you help?
Spring Reins of Life is a volunteer run nonprofit that is in the midst of a growing pain. The horses and our facilitators are ace pros, they have the therapy part covered. We need humans to help SRoL run the administrative and business management levels, Yes and, help us in any way to find the funding needed to keep our clients, our horses and our team going.
To have skilled professionals help SRoL create materials, brochures, website and online presence, annual reports, donor letters, etc. We see our business side catching up with the growth in our therapy side and then go even farther. Check out our projects and let us know what you are passionate about.
Testimonials
Spring Reins of Life is volunteer run and the majority of all budget is allocated toward programming for trauma survivors. Our website had become outdated, and with our list of volunteers trying to manage it over time just was a mess basically. We were glad to find a hub such as Catchafire to help us with some things that were just out of our realm of experience or expertise. We had several professionals respond to our request for an overhaul on our site. Claudia was one of those. While we found it exotic that we were in NJ (USA) and she in Spain - Claudia proved instantly that the time difference and distance were of no consequence. Also have to just be honest the name of her company did stand out for us, how could we not be attracted to "Brown Horse Media", espcially since one of our stars is a brown horse! On the serious side - Claudia has been outstanding to work with! She met every deadline (in fact we were the ones slipping on deadlines, and she was professional and understanding). We worked through the nightmare of Covid19 shutdown and still got things done. Claudia is insightful, respectful, professional, and very creative. Has been an absolute pleasure and could not recommend Brown Horse Media enough. For us this was a long neglected and daunting task that we knew if better utilized would help to serve our mission instead of being a thorn. Claudia has made that possible. The site is about to be unveiled live, we are done with all of the "work" and I cannot wait to see the response and the enjoyment of working with an upgraded, modernized site that we can manage and adapt. Thank you Catchafire and thank you Claudia!
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