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Start enjoying the 2022 YBGR Calendar today!

Our newest issue opens with a September-December 2021 spread so you can use it immediately.

We’re celebrating 65 Years of Caring in 2022 and include a special spotlight on the YBGR Ranch Program.  

Our full color photo calendar features YBGR kids at work and play.  Each month is accompanied by a motivational Bible verse for a year full of blessings.

Request your copy of the 2022 YBGR Calendar today!

YBGR’s farm-and-ranch program is hard at work this fall feeding cattle and horses, stacking hay and straw bales, digging ditches and harrowing pastures. These are just a few of the chores the Ranch’s old tractor is no longer able to handle.

“We aren’t four walls. We’re four hundred acres,” YBGR’s farm program director Gary Adams likes to say. We are no small operation. YBGR has 130 acres in crops and runs about 100 registered Angus on another 110 acres.

A JD 8300 tractor is on Gary’s wish list – being the right size and capacity for our operation which actively involves YBGR kids. We hope to be able to find a well-maintained used tractor that’s either affordable on our budget or might be donated.

If you can help, contact Kristi at Yellowstone Foundation 406-656-8772.

Since 1957, Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch has been committed to improving the lives of troubled youth through hands-on learning and involvement with agriculture. Watch our video to learn more about YBGR farm programs.

When Tami arrived at YBGR, she was sad, angry, and only thinking about when she could leave.  Tami had been in and out of placements most of her life and had spent the last three years in treatment facilities.  She figured that YBGR and staff were no different, that it was just a place for the state to warehouse her until her mom got out of treatment and got her back or a foster family was found that was willing to take a kid with mental health struggles.

Now six months later, Tami’s outlook on YBGR has changed dramatically.  She has progressed through treatment while gaining new skills and insights.  She has worked hard on her communication skills, something she has always struggled with, and is now a “high trust” youth who gets to work with staff to give tours now that the campus has reopened to visitors.

On a recent call with her mom, who has completed inpatient treatment and is now in a halfway house in Arkansas, Tami asked her mom to reach out to her treatment team to find out about resources in Yellowstone County.  Tami wants her mom to continue her treatment in Montana where Tami can still have access to Ranch programs.  She is still excited about completing her treatment but wants to remain a YBGR kid.

According to Tami, “My caseworker has looked and there are no resources for me in Arkansas like there are here.  I can still get YBGR case management, YBGR staff are in the schools, and there is the Supported Employment Program.  There are people who will work with me to help me find a job that works for me and my mental health and will continue to grow my communications skills and help me reach my goals.  I have been to a lot of places, and no one has ever offered me that.  I want to stay a YBGR kid until I am too old to be one anymore.”

Your gift makes possible YBGR’s transformative therapeutic programs that impact the lives of children like Tami.  – Thank you!

(To protect her identity, Tami’s name and image are not hers, but her story is real.)

Yellowstone Foundation has a winning strategy for donors contemplating the sale of appreciated property.

Meet Cliff and Georgia, retired landlords who used their apartment complex to generate both immediate cash and fund a Charitable Remainder Trust.

This Sell Part/Give Part plan allows property owners to have the best of all worlds – immediate cash proceeds, charitable deductions that off-set capital gains tax, and future income. 

Call us today and let us show you how!

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This young lady and her canine pal can teach you a New Trick.

A Yellowstone Gift Annuity will Retrieve immediate tax savings for you!

You’ll Sit Up and Beg for guaranteed income for life. 

Speak to us and find out what a Yellowstone Gift Annuity can do for you!

RDO Equipment Co. and the Offutt Family Foundation generously made a grant to YBGR for the SMART Room Expansion Project. SMART Room technologies, such as interactive whiteboards, engage students’ audio and visual senses and help them break out of their shells and build communication skills.  Digital classroom technologies available to Yellowstone Academy students and youth enrolled in Community Based Services programs help teachers address special needs and develop student abilities and performance.

Pictured:  Kim Chouinard of YBGR/CBS accepts check from John Hurd of RDO

A generous donor and Ebay seller has set up an Ebay For Charity site benefiting Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundation. Ten percent of sales from this site will come to Yellowstone through our PayPal Giving fund.

Browse through over 1200 items including trading cards, comic books, music memorabilia, and much more. If you find a tchotchke you can’t live without, treat yourself and Yellowstone too!