20/11/2025
Today is Minnesota's largest giving day - Give to the Max.
Why is Give to the Max important? St. Croix Trail Blazers relies on donations to help keep our horse partners well cared for, provide trained staff, and keep our facility well-maintained. St. Croix Trail Blazers matters to many because…
The relationship a rider forms with a horse and staff helps:
· Overcome sensory issues
· Improves self-esteem
· Offers a sense of freedom and accomplishment
· Promotes positive outlook
· Increases concentration and discipline
· Strengthens fine and gross motor skills
· Enhances social skills and communication
· Builds patience
· Encourages responsibility
A horse's gait moves a rider's body, which mimics the human walk. The rhythm and rocking gait of the horse transfers the movement to the rider that:
· Relaxes muscles
· Improves muscle tone and posture
· Helps with flexibility
· Improves eye/hand coordination
· Reduces stress
· Improves balance
· Enhances spatial awareness – knowing where you are in relation to objects or people and how to move around them (big for riding but also in everyday things like walking, riding a bike, sports, etc.)
· Increases attention span and problem-solving skills
· Increases communication
Riding provides sensory and motor input for:
· Vestibular – coordination and balance
· Proprioceptive – body awareness – balancing on one leg, adjusting your balance on an uneven surface, knowing your feet are touching grass or concrete without looking
· Tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory senses – touch, see, hear, smell
We appreciate any donation you can make and is tax deductible!
Donations can be:
Put in the payment box in the lounge,
Mailed to us at 6659 Jasmine Court North, Stillwater, MN 55082, or
Paid on the Give to the Max link below https://www.givemn.org/search?kw=St.%20Croix%20Trail%20Blazers
Please also think of us if your employer does donation matching. We’re happy to provide what information you may need for a matching donation.
Each donation made on the link above during Give to the Max enters us to win extra money. If Give to the Max randomly draws your gift, we will receive an additional prize grant! There are 20 Early Giving Golden Tickets for $500 each every day until November 20th. On November 20th, every 15 minutes a Golden Ticket will be drawn for $500 each, hourly $1,000 Golden Tickets, and a $10,000 Super-Sized Golden Ticket.
Help us reach our goal of $5,000. Thank you for your support.
Give to the Max Day November 20. Find Minnesota causes fast, explore matching grants, and make a gift—every gift moves Minnesota forward.
