Whether you lead a school, want to give, or run a shelter or ranch — there’s a place for you in this work.
We do the heavy lifting. You get a turnkey, standards-aligned program with trained teachers, vetted animal partners, and ongoing support — plus measurable outcomes you can report to your board.
A pilot can begin in one classroom and grow to your whole district. We’ll help you find the funding, too.
Grant funding is available — we provide the prep and draft applications.
Gentle Steps is built to be radically efficient — partnering with shelters and ranches that already exist, so your dollars buy impact, not overhead.
Every gift puts a trained animal in front of a child who needs it most, in the schools that can least afford to pay.
Shelters, rescues, equine centers, veterinarians, and therapy-animal teams: Gentle Steps gives a fundable, standards-aligned framework around the good work you already do. A shelter that says “we serve 500 students through a standards-aligned curriculum” wins more grants than one that says “we do school visits sometimes.”
We make you stronger — more visible, more fundable, more impactful.
We’re designed to work alongside the organizations already leading this work across the state:
Tell us about your school, your gift, or your organization — and we’ll show you exactly what Gentle Steps could look like for the children you serve.
Email Dolly →Dolly Schaub, Founder · Colorado
dollyschaub@yahoo.com · (970) 306-2111