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As the end of this long, strange year approaches, I m sure you re getting them too. My mailbox is overflowing with them – solicitations from every nonprofit I ve ever bought a calendar from, making one last pitch for year-end giving. Among them for me (and probably for you) will be lots of requests from Thoroughbred aftercare organizations. As the owner of an off-track Thoroughbred, I m happy to do whatever I can to support them. How can you not feel good about giving to charity?
The thing is, this particular cause shouldn t be so reliant on charity.
Last year, before the pandemic hobbled fundraising and operations for many non-profits, I wrote a three-part series about what is and isn t working in Thoroughbred aftercare. (You can find it here, here, and here.) It was clear then that while we have come a long way as an industry in the infrastructure and funding dedicated to this cause, the enormity of the problem dwarfs the solutions we ve come up with so