News and Highlights

• Help Make Christmas Merry and Bright for our Ranchers

  12/10/2025

  You can help make Christmas merry & bright for our Ranch boys and girls this year! Christmas can be the most wonderful time of year and, at the same time, the most painful time for some our Ranch boys and girls. It may be hard to imagine, but for some of our Ranchers, this year will be the first time they ever receive a single Christmas gift. They will be overjoyed! For others, the holidays are a time when they miss their family of origin, even if they experienced abuse and neglect in those homes. Emotions can swing wildly this … Continue reading →

• Citizens Bank to Match Donations to Ranch Giving Tuesday

  11/18/2025

  What is Giving Tuesday? After Thanksgiving, #BlackFriday and #CyberMonday each year, we celebrate #GivingTuesday. This special day helps demonstrate that holidays can be about both giving and giving back. This year, Citizens Bank will once again be matching gifts to the Ranch on Giving Tuesday. For every dollar donated to the ASYR on December 2nd, Citizens Bank will match contributions up to the first $5,000! Here are some ways YOU can help ASYR receive the entire $5,000 matching gift from Citizens Bank on Giving Tuesday: Make an online donation by clicking here.  Drop your donation by any Citizens Bank location. … Continue reading →

• 30th Annual Arkansas Children’s Award Dinner Record-Breaking Success!

  11/03/2025

  Arkansas Sheriffs’ Youth Ranches celebrated a landmark moment Wednesday, October 29, hosting its 30th Annual Arkansas Children’s Award Dinner, honoring business leader and philanthropist Rush Harding, and raising a record-breaking $355,000 to continue its mission of providing safe and loving homes for Arkansas children in need. The event drew more than 600 ASYR supporters to the Grand Ballroom at the Little Rock Marriott Hotel. Guests enjoyed a reception, dinner, silent and live auction, and the award presentation. Longtime ASYR supporter and former Arkansas Razorback David Bazzel, and voice of Morning Mayhem on 103.7 The BUZZ, served as master of ceremonies. … Continue reading →

• ASYR Receives Extraordinary $1 Million Gift for New Home

  09/24/2025

  BATESVILLE, Ark. (Sept. 24, 2025) – The Arkansas Sheriffs’ Youth Ranches (ASYR) has received a $1 million gift that will fund the construction of a new home on its 600-acre Batesville campus. This generous donation will help ASYR continue providing hope, healing, and a place for Arkansas children in crisis to call home for generations to come. The generous donors are longtime supporters of the Ranch, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Raney of Ozark. Mr. and Mrs. Raney sought no recognition; they only wished to see their support of ASYR fulfilled through the construction of a new home within their lifetime. … Continue reading →

• Rush Harding to Receive 2025 Arkansas Children’s Award

  08/15/2025

  For 30 years, Arkansas Sheriffs’ Youth Ranches has recognized Arkansans who have made outstanding contributions to create better opportunities for Arkansas children. These Arkansans personify in word and deed the ideals of the Ranch, and hundreds gather each year to pay tribute to their dedication at the Arkansas Children’s Award Dinner. This year, we are excited to present the 30th annual Arkansas Children’s Award to Rush Harding, a generous advocate for building hopeful futures for Arkansas youth. Rush was raised in the Delta community of Clarendon, the son of a legendary high school coach and a beloved home economics teacher … Continue reading →