SaddleBrooke Community Outreach Has Another Banner Year in 2024 to 2025 | Community

For more than 28 years, SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO), an all-volunteer organization, has been providing children in nearby communities with opportunities to succeed through programs that provide food, clothing, enrichment grants and education. Thanks to our volunteers, who generously contribute their time and talent and our donors who provide their financial support, we are striving to end generational poverty for thousands of kids.

During the past year our fundraising efforts among local businesses and donations from SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch residents, alongside distributions from the Golden Goose Thrift Shop, allowed us to provide more than $1,100,000 of assistance to the 11 communities in the 100+-mile long Copper Corridor.

FeedOur Annual Food Drive in March collected more than 9,500 pounds of food and more than $142,000 in monetary donations for the Tri-Community Food Bank (TCFB) from SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch residents. SBCO also spent $47,751 buying perishable foods for TCFB.

Thanksgiving Food Baskets were delivered to 103 families living in Oracle and in the San Manuel/ Mammoth Unified School District. SaddleBrooke residents assembled 60 baskets for Oracle families while SaddleBrooke Ranch residents assembled 43 baskets for families in San Manuel and Mammoth.

ClotheKids Closet provided nearly 3,200 fall and spring wardrobes to students in pre-K through eighth grade this fiscal year. When kids come to the “big red building” in Mammoth, volunteers who help them shop for clothes. When the children can’t come in-person, the volunteers bag clothes for each name provided by the school.

Teen Closet hosted two shopping events for teens in towns from Catalina to Miami, one in July 2024 and another in January 2025. Ninety-seven students shopped for school clothing and school supplies in July and 76 shopped in January. To qualify for a shopping trip, teens attend school regularly, maintain an overall C or better average and perform at least six service hours in their community.

The Adopt-A-Family and Adopt-A-Child programs brought holiday joy to approximately 694 children and adults, thanks to nearly $90,000 contributed by residents of SaddleBrooke and SaddleBrooke Ranch. SaddleBrooke residents adopted 248 children in the San Manuel and Mammoth communities as well as 250 children on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. SaddleBrooke Ranch residents adopted 196 people in Oracle and Hayden/Winkleman.

EnrichEnrichment SBCO awarded $152,769 in grants to local schools and community organizations. Grants were awarded to the Miami school district, Miami Memorial Library, Mammoth/San Manuel Unified School District and Little League, Hayden Library, Hayden High School, Ray Elementary School, Oracle School District and Superior Jr/Sr High School.

EducateCollege scholarships were received by 151 students during SBCO’s 2024-25 fiscal year. These included 112 four-year students, 33 two-year students and 6 graduate students. Forty-one new scholarships were awarded to students beginning college in the Fall of 2025, 12 of whom plan to attend two-year programs.

Additionally, the Scholarship Endowment Program distributed $10,000 in earnings which enabled SBCO to grant awards to two graduate students.

Community EventsWe also provided two community events. The Walk for Kids 2024 in October involved 213 walkers and more than 25 volunteers. In March 2025, The Remodeled Home Tour was attended by 450 ticket holders with support from 100 volunteers.

The success of our organization’s work is undeniable and our volunteers are inspired to raise funds and donate their time by the satisfaction they receive from improving the lives of kids—our hope for the future.