#GivingTuesday is the international day of generosity happening on November 30, 2021.

If you’d like to help Haven Acres continue to be able to show people God’s love through one-on-one mentorship and rescue horses, there’s a few ways you can do that.

Ways to help tomorrow:

• Share, comment on, and like our #GT posts. I have been and will continue to be posting about our #GivingTuesday fundraiser, and the more people like, comment on, and share posts, the more people who will see them. (Facebook shows posts to more people when more people interact with them.)
• Create your own Facebook fundraiser:
  • This is so helpful! Personal fundraisers (connected to Haven Acres) share directly to the people on your friend list, sends them notifications, and asks them if they would like to donate. Our fundraiser will only reach our So this is one of the most impactful ways you can help!
  • If you make a fundraiser, make it personal! Talk about why Haven Acres means a lot to you.
  • There’s also an option where you could match people who donate on your fundraiser if you’d like to do that.
• Your kids could help! They can create a TikTok or Instagram Reel about why Haven Acres matters to them and link to our page or fundraiser!
• Donate:
  • Facebook matching – Facebook will be matching up to $8M in donations made on Facebook fundraisers ONLY on November 30^th, starting at 7am central time. Facebook usually runs out of matching money very quick, so if you’d like yours to be matched, try donating as close to 7am as you can that day! Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/donate/626055541859831/
  • Employer matching – many employers will match donations made by their employees! You could always see if yours will do this.
  • If you would like another way to donate, you can visit this link: havenacresmn.org/donate.

Our goal is to raise $6,000 on #GivingTuesday. This will help us pay our expenses for part of the winter as we take care of the horses and work on fundraising and strengthening the ministry to be even better next year.

Thank you for your help! We couldn’t do it without you!

We are so grateful to everyone who donated to Haven Acres on GivingTuesday! A total of $3,150 was raised! This helps us so much going into winter to pay for hay, vet bills, admin costs, and all the other things we have to do to make summer sessions possible. We appreciate you all so much! Thank you again!!

Ten bowlers played 3 games, got 57 sponsors, and raised $8,622! It was a fun night of fellowship, pizza, and bowling. We are so grateful for the bowlers who were brave enough to ask family and friends for support and for the donors who generously gave to support the Haven Acres ministry!

We sure are having a beautiful fall this year! As we approach winter, we are rolling out a couple of fundraisers to help support Haven Acres in the off season.

First, we are finally able to hold our Bowling for Bucks fundraiser on October 30th this year! We’d love to have a lot of you participate!

Bowling for Bucks is a fundraiser we usually have in the spring every year but due to COVID we were unable to run it as usual this year. With bowling alleys opening with sanitation precautions and social distancing in mind, we are excited to be able to host it this fall! Since we haven’t been able to do some of our usual fundraisers this year, this event will help substantially with all the costs of running Haven Acres during the winter months. This fundraiser usually raises about $8,000 dollars. We’d love it if we could hit the $10,000 mark this year, and we believe we can with your help!

Anyone who would like to participate must first come up with a goal in mind of how much they would like to raise. We ask everyone to raise a minimum of $250 dollars. Then each person will ask for sponsors for their bowling games in person, over the phone, or any other way you can think to! Sponsors can either give a flat donation or pledge to donate a certain amount per point. We realize there is less than two weeks, so we need some adults and teens to commit to going out and getting pledges/ sponsors ASAP. Please shoot us an email at info@havenacresmn.org if you intend to bowl (obtain pledges) so that we have a number in mind as we reserve the bowling lanes. The event usually runs from 6-8pm. We will let you know if anything changes once we solidify details with Bowlero in Lakeville.

By the way, Haven Acres usually provides pizza and pop for anyone bowling in the fundraiser, but we’ll have to see with COVID requirements if we’ll be able to do that this year. The participants will pay for their own bowling games and shoe rental. Usually everyone bowls 2-3 games.

We will also be posting our sweatshirt fundraiser soon, so keep your eyes open for that!