ABOUT SPECIAL SPIRIT
PARTNERSHIPS
Through these partnerships, Special Spirit – The Learning Ranch is proud to have a further reach in the community and carry out our mission of empowering children and adults through animal activities
Your donations help us continue to reach the community to educate and make animals accessible to all.
Please consider donating to Special Spirit today.
SoCalGas supported Special Spirit in 2022 by honoring us with generous grant. This grant allowed us to offer a few scholarships to our special clients for their participation in our Animal Assisted Programs.
That SoCalGas are committed to provide customers with safe, reliable service goes beyond natural gas. They are also dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities they serve. They are generous in their giving of financial support and they focus their efforts in areas where they can make a difference, hence supporting Special Spirit.
A HUGE THANK YOU to SoCalGas!
A New Dawn of Shinah Foundation
SADDLES FOR SURVIVORS
Equine Assisted Therapy in partnership
with Special Spirit
A New Dawn Mission: Holistic trauma-informed education & healing modalities for underserved & abused woman, with focus on survivors of Sexual Exploitation / Sex Trafficking.
Most survivors are left without tools and resources needed to build a life beyond the abuse, A New Dawn brings hope that change is on the horizon.
Breaking the Chains Foundation (BTCF)
“WHEN NO ONE IS LOOKING"
A 5-week teen volunteer program discovering your intrinsic value by being of service. In partnership with Special Spirit.
BTCF is on the front lines of changing public dialogue and view on eating disorders! We are a creative and artistic grassroots movement! With your help, we can give voice to the silence of eating disorders and how those who suffer in an artistic engaging emergence of looking at what one goes through on the inside rather than on the outside.
Tierra Del Sol
LEARNING & CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Special Spirit is a community partner
with Tierra del Sol
Special Spirit provides the clients of Tierra Del Sol with meaningful learning and career opportunities. While the benefits to their associates are immeasurable, us as a community partner benefit greatly from the love and care participants provide to our animals and plants. They do very productive work at the farm.
ETTA
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
A community-based program
in partnership with ETTA
Special Spirit provides safe and meaningful learning opportunities for adults with challenges. The farm program is aimed at developing various life-skill in a small community-based group setting. Activities at the farm range from feeding and cleaning the farm animals, tend to the garden, recycling, and more.