[QUOTE=scierra;7476589]
Just yesterday FPF showed up on my FB page announcing an auction she was running. I didn’t read it all, but she said opened her page back up for the fund raiser, I think it is to help someone who just lost their newborn baby boy. I wasn’t interested enough to read her post. It just shocked me to see her starting a fund raiser again.[/QUOTE]
Looks like she’s raising funds for herself. There’s a gofundme for the family who lost their baby.
[QUOTE=cowgirljenn;7477257]
It makes it hard for me to bring new people on our BOD and it makes it hard for me to think of ever stepping down. We have policies and I work hard to make sure we follow them consistently. I worry others might not. At the same time, I don’t want to be the person who can’t let go when it is time. 
I spoke last weekend at an Unwanted Horse Summit (preached might be more like it!) on best practices for rescues. I said (more than once!) that one of the keys is having good policies, making them public, and then FOLLOWING them.
(Ok, divergence from the original topic over for me :)).[/QUOTE]
I just passed your info along to a rescue in Louisville…as an example to emulate. Lots of problems with No Kill Louisville and this new rescue wants to avoid the problems. They love your transparency, Jenn. Transparency and honesty, the two most important assets to a rescue.
Now is a good time to start looking for someone with the potential to fill your shoes. Give them some responsibility and see what they do with it.
[QUOTE=LauraKY;7477553]
Now is a good time to start looking for someone with the potential to fill your shoes. Give them some responsibility and see what they do with it.[/QUOTE]
Oh that’s a constant search - I try to bring a couple of possibilities along at a time (things happen, people lose interest, etc.).
Is anyone still following the Frog Pond page?! Her posts are :eek: really unprofessional, even though the page is not for a “rescue” anymore. :eek:
Yes, I am still following her page. I’m the person she recently threatened to sue.
[QUOTE=GraysAcres;7509422]
Yes, I am still following her page. I’m the person she recently threatened to sue.[/QUOTE]
She’s really lost it.
[QUOTE=GraysAcres;7509422]
Yes, I am still following her page. I’m the person she recently threatened to sue.[/QUOTE]
What is the “other page” she is referring to? Can you link me? I want to read it ! LOL!
Man, what a tangled web that has been woven…
[QUOTE=SuckerForHorses;7510471]
Nevermind, I just found it. It’s an open group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FPFFraud/[/QUOTE]
That is an interesting read.
She took the Frog Pond Farm page down…? Can’t seem to find it.
UPDATE: Lisa Gordon is fined $20K (payable over 5 years) for the $50K she “misappropriated” from Frog Pond “rescue”. Seems like a pretty light fine to me.
"The founder of an Ohio horse rescue accused of misappropriating funds has accepted a settlement from the state’s attorney general. Lisa Gordon must pay $20,000 and dissolve Frog Pond Farm Draft Horse Rescue.
The $20,000 is to be paid over five-years to the state and will be distributed to other charities by the attorney general’s office. Gordon has also agreed to distribute any of Frog Pond Farm’s assets to a charitable organization with a similar purpose.
Gordon is prohibited from soliciting donations in any capacity or holding a position with a charity.
The suit filed by Attorney General Mike DeWine in early 2014, alleged Gordon misappropriated almost $50,000 from 2011 through 2013. The lawsuit is closed with prejudice, due to the settlement."
Her personal FB page is an interesting read (at least the public posts that anyone can see). She has a new farm now, and even took the barn from her former farm and put it up at her new place.
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.gordon.7121?fref=ts
penalties to rescue who do this kind of stuff are notoriously absent or light. Case in point, ARM…
http://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases12/pr20120321a.html
At least in Lisa Gordon/Frog Pond Farms case I believe she did do some good for horses… that can’t be said for others who pocket cash… ARM… AC4H…
Any idea what has happened with the horses?? Have they all found other places to be safe??
Yes she really does seem to be a piece of work…yikes.
I think I recently saw an ad for Dawby. (99 percent sure that’s his name.) I can’t remember if it was from her or not though…
Can someone point me to an FVO thread or give me the cliff note version. I must have blocked it out. Did he colic or founder or both? Was there some kick or fight between stallions involved? If no one remembers that’s OK. I was just trying to remember the ordeal.
[QUOTE=roseymare;8161514]
Can someone point me to an FVO thread or give me the cliff note version. I must have blocked it out. Did he colic or founder or both? Was there some kick or fight between stallions involved? If no one remembers that’s OK. I was just trying to remember the ordeal.[/QUOTE]
Here it is:
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?395881-UPDATE-RIP-Frog-Pond-Farm-s-Draft-Rescue-Ollie-(
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