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"Ride to WEG" Fundraising Campaign Dates
June 5th-September 1st, 2010

The Concept of the ACPS “Ride to WEG”
The “Ride to WEG” fundraising concept is simply $1 dollar donation equals 1 mile. Each dollar gets us closer to our goal of Connemaras in Kentucky at the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games.

The ACPS fund raising committee hopes that all 10 ACPS Regions will rally to support this major fund raiser in order to reach the national goal of $50,000. We’re “thinking big,” and hope that every ACPS member, along with family and friends, will support this effort “big time!”

This is a “virtual ride.” Regional Chairmen, or an individual identified by the Chair of each region as the “Ride to WEG” coordinator, will be recognized as the fund raising “Team Leader” within each of the ten ACPS Regions. Participants (you who are raising funds) are asked to register as “riders” to raise funds from the folks you know (sponsors). Instructions and helpful forms follow.

All Rider Forms, Sponsorship Forms, and Mode of Payment Records for individual riders will ultimately be coordinated and accounted for by their appointed WEG Team Leaders.

The campaign will be run Online as well as On Paper via US Postal Service or Snail Mail as we like to call it. Those Sponsors wishing to pay by credit card, or to make outright donations using a credit card, may access PayPal by going directly to the ACPS website, www.acps.org. Sponsors will give the name of the Rider they are sponsoring and his/her ACPS Region Number. Ultimately, monies donated Online and On Paper, will be tracked by Rider in each region.

Online:
The ACPS website will report on the progress of the “Ride to WEG” campaign with fund raising updates and occasionally post participating rider profiles in the “Weekly News.”

To reinforce energy and excitement for the “Ride to WEG, Team Leaders are asked to report timely information from their active fund raising regional members to Dr. Donna Duckworth, website Editor of “Weekly News,” connemaras@windstream.net.

Forms for the “Ride to WEG” may be downloaded here.

On Paper:
“Ride to WEG” forms will be available via USPS directly from WEG Team Leaders. For those riders wishing to participate using “paper,” please contact your respective WEG Team Leader, requesting that the appropriate paperwork be mailed to you. Contact information for the 10 WEG Team Leaders is available on the ACPS website or by telephoning your ACPS Region Chair for the name of your region’s designated WEG Team Leader.

THE OVERVIEW
The BOG of the ACPS has voted for the Society to support the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games, Lexington, KY, with a promotional “Connemara Pony Booth” within the site’s Equine Village. The consensus was that the international exposure, media coverage, demographics and expected record-breaking attendance added up to “a once in a life time opportunity” for the ACPS to showcase the remarkable traits and breed characteristics of the Connemara Pony.

At the January, 2010, ACPS Board of Governors Meeting, the projected financial commitment was presented to the Board and fund raising ideas to meet this commitment were discussed. Several committees were established to achieve the intended goals of supporting a breed booth, ranging from volunteer organization to actual Connemara Pony demonstrations. Fund raising discussions were of ultimate importance with the objective being to arrive at fund raising ideas appealing and exciting to the entire ACPS membership.

We now encourage your enthusiasm and commitment to a “virtual” fund raising campaign, “Ride to WEG!” It is a national campaign, created not only to raise funds for the WEG Connemara Pony booth, but also to create awareness throughout our country and the world about the Connemara Pony breed and to ensure a “Connemara Pony presence” at the Alltech World Equestrian Games being held for the first time on American soil in Lexington, KY, from September 25th through October 10th, 2010! This is an historic event within the equestrian world!

Monies raised will go directly to the American Connemara Pony Society Foundation, (ACPS-F), a 501 C 3 non-profit, used to cover all expenses for the educational Connemara Pony booth in the Irish Village at “the Games.” All donations are tax deductible.

Donate to the Ride to WEG Fund using PayPal below:

** Enter Region & Rider donation should be applied to

Connemaras at the World Equestrian Games

Time is growing short to get your advertisement into the once in a lifetime Connemara booklet that will be handed out at the World Equestrian Games this fall.   We have extended the deadline to August 15 and really need your support to make this venture a success.   We have also slashed ad prices to encourage more participation.  You can place a full page ad for $600, half page ad for $350 and the business card ad remains at $100.   These are tax deductible advertising dollars as payments are made to the ACPS Foundation.    

The full page ad is 7-1/2" high x 4-1/2" wide, the half page ad is 4-1/2" wide X 3-1/2" high  and the business card size is 2" X 3-1/2" vertical or horizontal. All of it will be in color.

Please help us to promote our beloved Connemara ponies to the world and send in your print ready ads, suggested 300 dpi, to Janice Meyer at janicemeyer1@live.com .  The deadline is August 15 so Janice has time to prepare and print the booklet.    Please send checks made out to the ACPS Foundation to Amy Plavin, 403 Parker Hill Rd, Rockingham, VT 05101 or use the paypal account on the ACPS website. 

WEG Promotional Brochure Options

Inside cover color ad $1,000.00 Full page color ad $600.00 Half page color ad $350.00 Business card color ad $100.00 Patrons $25 and above $25.00

Sincerely,

Amy Plavin, Janice Meyer, Chris Knox