Meet Our Charities

Horses Help

Horses Help is an Arizona 501(c)(3) premier therapeutic and recreational agency that serves the special needs population by providing activities to empower them to break through physical, cognitive and emotional barriers using a unique collaboration of horses and people within Arizona’s “Valley of the Sun”. For additional information, please visit https://www.horseshelp.org/

Populations Served

• Physical disabilities
• Cognitive disabilities
• Emotional impairment
• At-risk youth
• Active, separated and retired service members

Programs

• Adaptive (therapeutic) Riding
• Hippotherapy
• Equine Facilitated Learning
• Equine Facilitated Mental Health
• Educational Enrichment
• Military

Lead Guitar

Lead Guitar is an Arizona 501(c)(3) music program based in Tucson, Arizona. Lead Guitar establishes and maintains sustainable, year-long classical guitar programs in schools with large populations of at-risk students by matching a Lead Guitar master instructor with a certified music teacher. Using music and an instrument with “cool” factor, Lead Guitar provides daily in-school instruction with the aim of keeping kids in school. For additional information please visit https://www.leadguitar.org/.

Populations Served

Lead Guitar serves 60 schools in 5 states. New centers of urban activity include
Chicago’s south side, central Phoenix, and Mendocino (CA), where the public
schools haven’t had music classes for 9 years.

Curriculum Components

• Instructional Videos
• Teaching Resources 
• Method Book I
• Song of the Wild
• Method Book II 
• Method Book III