Volunteer Application – Safe Harbor Sanctuary

Welcome Our Volunteer Enrollment Form.

Please complete this form if you are interested in becoming a Safe Harbor Volunteer. This form helps us get to know you, and how we can work together to help horses. After you have completed this form, our volunteer coordinator will reach out to you to either set you up with an onboarding mentor or make arrangements for you to come to an open house! Please note, our training center is located in Cottontown, TN. While we have foster homes all over the mid-state, we cannot guarantee that a volunteer position will be open at our satellite foster farms. Most hands on volunteer work does take place in Cottontown and the surrounding areas.

Name *

First

Last

Address *

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State

Zip Code

County (Not Country) [I.E. Sumner, Davidson, Robertson, etc] *

Email *

Phone *

My Age *

The following are some potential opportunities for volunteering with horses. Please read in detail, and then mark your selections below on the roles you are interested in helping with.

Horse Biography Writer: Collect data from various sources including Facebook, Foster Homes, Foster Director, and Volunteer Management Site to write and update accurate horse adoption profiles that help market the horses. Uses Wordpress and RescueGroups Cloud software packages.

Event Planner: Lead the fundraising team of Safe Harbor, and take the lead role in planning future fundraising events. Utilize the volunteer team to delegate tasks, and coordinate the project plan for successful events. This is a very goal oriented role that is critical to the successful future of Safe Harbor.

Volunteer Coordinator: Onboard new volunteers and assure completion of liability waivers. Introduce volunteers to their closest volunteer foster farm, or help them find a suitable administrative role. This is a key position and interfaces across all other key coordinator roles of the rescue.

Foster Liaison: Keep in weekly contact with assigned foster homes for updates on horse appointments such as farrier, deworming, veterinary, training, etc. Log these appointments in to the cloud based software package, RescueGroups.

Medical Records Coordinator: Interface with Rescue Director, Foster Director and Safe Harbor veterinarians to log veterinary appointments and assure all animals are up to date on necessary annual vetting. Record appointments in RescueGroups, and upload documents and records into Google Drive.

Transporter: Help transport horses during intake, or from one foster home location to another with your own truck and trailer. Adoption transports are a paid service that the adopter pays for!

Farm Assistant: Come to the training center or a foster farm once a week or more to help with grooming, mucking stalls, feeding, trough cleaning, and other needs.

Trainer: Help with refresher training or starting training for a horse of any age and experience level in the rescue.

Event Help: Support Safe Harbor at events with help with parking, concessions, crowd control and other fundraising tasks. This volunteer role is needed every time an event is scheduled.

Youth Coordinator: Lead a team of youth volunteers at the training center for ongoing educational farm days.

I am most interested in the following role: *

Alternate role I am interested in: *

I am willing to travel to volunteer *

Tell us about yourself!

I have certifications related to equine care and training *

Please list certifications *

I consider my experience level with horses to be: *

I've been riding horses for: *

I just dream of riding.
about a year.
more than a year, but less than five years.
for a long time now. I'd guess 5-10 years.
I was born in the saddle, and could ride before I could walk.

I own a horse or livestock trailer *

Yes
No

I own horses of my own: *

Yes
No
Yes, and I want to adopt more.
No, but I want to adopt.

Let's talk poop. How do you feel about mucking stalls? *

Yuck. Poop is gross and smells bad.
If I have to, I will do it.
Mucking stalls=meditation
Hand me that shovel, and I'll get the barn sparkling clean.
I would if I could, but I have an injury that prevents me from doing physical labor.

I feel comfortable lifting 50 pounds *

Yes
No

It takes all sorts of skills to keep up a well running rescue. Tell us about your non-horse related skills and abilities. Please check all that apply! *

I know how to use the following well: *

If you are a high school student, do you need to track hours for the HOPE Scholarship? *

Yes
No
Not in High School
I need to track hours for something else.

Do you have any questions or comments or anything you'd like to add?

Thank you for completing this form!

We are so grateful that you are interested in learning about volunteering with Safe Harbor. Within 1 week, you will be contacted by our volunteer coordinator. We schedule prospective volunteer open houses at least once every 2 months, and you will be directly invited to one of these open houses. At Safe Harbor we love our volunteer culture, and we'll work together to make sure that our organization mutually the right fit and that your time spent with us will be rewarding. We look forward to meeting you at an open house where you will learn more about our history, mission, values and goals for the future.