Volunteer Resources
Volunteer Hours
Tracking volunteer involvement is extremely important to ManeGait for planning and funding purposes. It also provides volunteers and staff with access to validate hours for students and those involved in service organizations. Please use the Volunteer Portal to log your hours within 1 hour before each shift*. If you have any questions or forget to check in, please email Jennifer Scott at jscott@manegait.org.
*Important Note: You will need to check in and check out of each shift for hours to be accurate.
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To protect the well being of our riders, volunteers, horses and employees, the following guidelines will be observed with regard to canceling riding lessons:
Extreme cold – Mounted lessons: temperature below 35 with wind-chill factor. Driving lessons: temperature below 45 with wind-chill factor.
Hazardous road conditions
Extreme heat – temperature above 105 with heat index factor.
Severe Weather - Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorms, visible lightning or hail storms.
How will you be notified? Communications will now be sent through our new texting software. Cancellations will also be announced on our website - Daily Plan. Texts from the ManeGait number, (469) 837-2625, will be sent with messages that start with "MANEGAIT". Please save this number as ManeGait!
If you have not received text messages or are unsure, please email Jennifer Scott.
Please note:
We will not cancel classes the day before, as the forecast may be wrong.
Cancellation includes the GaitWay program and simulator lessons, unless you are advised to come.
Pop-up thunderstorms may cause a delay rather than a cancellation. If storms pop up after class has started, we will evaluate conditions before deciding how to proceed.
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Riders, family members, volunteers, staff, and visitors are not to come to ManeGait if:
They feel unwell
They have knowingly been exposed to any infectious disease
They have been in close contact to someone suspected with an infectious illness and awaiting a test result / diagnosis
Should an individual be diagnosed or test positive with an infectious illness, they are not to return to ManeGait until:
They are fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever suppressant
AND receive guidance from their physician that it is safe to resume public activity
If, after participating at ManeGait, an individual tests positive with an infectious illness or discovers they were exposed to a virus, they are advised to contact ManeGait staff immediately to report possible exposure.
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If you need to miss an assigned class, please log into your portal and withdraw from your shift at least 24 hours in advance. You will find your assignments under My Profile.
If it is a last-minute absence, please text the ManeGait number at 469-896-0081.
