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Buddy Talent 2012 - Win a Trip to Perform at Leadership Conference
Best Buddies International
Best Buddies would like to showcase the gifts of our participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities by hosting an online talent contest. We invite our participants with disabilities to submit a video featuring their talent(s)... Date: 4/3/2012


Best Buddies Chapters Lobby At The State Capitol To Remove The R-Word From State Legislation
Laura Holms
Best Buddies Chapters helped lobby at the State Capitol to remove the R-Word from state legislation... Date: 3/20/2012


City High Leader Welcomes Diversity
Max Friedman
As the president of City High’s Best Buddies chapter, Francesca Crutchfield-Stoker proves to be a model student... Date: 3/4/2012


The ‘R’ Word Is Officially Yanked From Iowa Law
Des Moines Register
As the president of City High’s Best Buddies chapter, Francesca Crutchfield-Stoker proves to be a model student... Date: 3/4/2012


Take the pledge to end use of the ‘R’-word
Mark A. Reed & Laura Holms
The word hurts, even if it is not directed at a person with intellectual and developmental disabilities... Date: 3/2/2012


Best Buddies Iowa Chef Challenge
Laura Holms
Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Country Club Market win the 2011 Best Buddies Iowa Chef Challenge... Date: 10/14/2011


Iowa Buddy Ambassadors meet with Anthony Kennedy Shriver
Laura Holms
Ben Meyer and Danielle Kraayenbrink, Best Buddies Iowa Ambassadors met with Best Buddies Founder Anthony Kennedy Shriver at the annual Leadership Conference... Date: 10/14/2011


Meredith Special Interest Media partners with Best Buddies Iowa
Laura Holms
Carlos Avecedo, senior food editor with Meredith Special Interest Media, teamed up with his Buddy, Carmen Parrott, to create an exciting dish for the Best Buddies Chef Challenge... Date: 10/14/2011


13Cares: Best Buddies
Erin Kiernan
High School proms sometimes leave some students out, but a local group is making sure everyone and their buddies have a night of glitz and glamour... Date: 5/5/2010


Michigan Athletes Mingle, Play With Special Needs Children
AnnArbor.com Contributor
About 375 special athletes from all over Washtenaw County converged in Crisler Arena to meet and learn sport skills from University of Michigan student-athletes... Date: 3/28/2010


Dirty Little Six-letter Word
Samantha Foster
Some University students are dedicated to raising awareness about something they see as a common problem: the use of the word "retard..." Date: 3/4/2010


Best Buddies Program Offers Lifelong Relationships, Lessons For Students
Sherri Keaton
There are 100 involved in CMU’s program — 50 students and 50 "buddies." Students in the program must have one-on-one outings at least once a month and make contact with their buddy once a week by phone, e-mail or through the mail... Date: 2/1/2010


We Are Best Buddies: Join Our Global Movement!
Best Buddies International
In 2001, Best Buddies International (BBI) made a commitment to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities around the world by setting a goal to expand our programs into 50 countries by the end of 2010... Date: 1/5/2010


Best Buddies A Big Hit
Marleen Linares
As Laura Vukelich and Erin Schubert sat in a local ice-cream shop talking and laughing, they raised their arms to touch their fists together. “Best friends forever,” Schubert said with a bright smile on her face. “And ever and ever,” Vukelich responded reassuringly... Date: 12/17/2009


Benihana Partners With Best Buddies And FIJI Water to Kick-off A Season Of Giving
Best Buddies International
Throughout the month of November, Benihana will donate 100% of proceeds from the sale of bottled FIJI Water at all 76 U.S. restaurant locations to Best Buddies International, a nonprofit organization with a mission to change the lives of people with intellectual disabilities... Date: 11/2/2009


Urbandale teacher opens window for her special education students
Dave Dolmage
Urbandale's special-ed teacher has revived Best Buddies program to help students with disabilities... Date: 7/9/2009


City's Best Buddies Best In The State
Missy Collins
Alex Hansche said he originally decided to join the Best Buddies chapter at City High because he wanted to gain some community service experience before he graduated later this month... Date: 5/4/2009


Miss USA Pays Visit To Best Buddies
Bradford Pearson
When the 60-plus members of Walter Johnson High School's Best Buddies program gathered for a group meeting Friday morning, they expected a usual day. What they got was anything but... Date: 12/17/2008


Students Bond With Their Best Buddies
Katie Rodgers
This fall, Joe Walker, a 19-year-old special needs student at Dover High School, made a new best friend, Mitchell Moore... Date: 12/14/2008


City Hall Aide Is 'performance-driven'
John Canalis
Imagine job hunting with a developmental disability. David Gauthier, who has cerebral palsy, says he put his challenges aside, as he has done all his life, when he applied to work for Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster... Date: 12/7/2008
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