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Leadership Teams

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Special Olympics is led by a senior management team with broad corporate and nonprofit experience. Seven regional offices around the world are headed up by managing directors who support the ongoing growth and development of programs in their regions. In addition, Special Olympics has a Global Athlete Leadership Council which features an Athlete Leader from each of the seven regions and provides feedback, guidance, and ideas to the Special Olympics International Board of Directors and Leadership Team.
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Special Olympics is honored to work with committed individuals, families, foundations and institutions who are passionate about the impact their philanthropic investments can make.

Significant gifts from key individuals and foundations have powered our Movement for over 50 years and have been critical to the success of our most important accomplishments. We remain grateful to these key individuals and institutions who are driving our mission forward through their exceptional commitments.

To learn more about how you can support Special Olympics please contact us at strategicgifts@specialolympics.org
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Are you Ready to Promote Inclusion in Your Community? Special Olympics awards project-based grants to young people with and without intellectual disabilities. These grants fund youth-led projects that promote inclusion in schools and communities across the globe.
Special Olympics Asia Pacific

Our Mission

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The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), offering ongoing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and share gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, fellow athletes, and the broader community.

In Asia Pacific, we support 637,015 athletes across 35 country programs, by providing them resources, capacity building support and a platform for their voices. We are committed to building sustainable, high-quality programs that advance the Special Olympics mission and global strategy to achieve inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

There are about 54 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Asia Pacific. This rises to as many as 200 million people with IDD globally. Our goal is to reach out to every one of them—and their families as well. Special Olympics Asia Pacific does this through a wide range of sports and competitions, leadership and skills trainings, health screenings and education, and fund-raising events. We also create opportunities for families, community members, local leaders, businesses, dignitaries and others to band together to change attitudes and support athletes.
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Board of Directors

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Special Olympics' volunteer Board of Directors determines international policies. The board is composed of business and sport leaders, professional athletes, educators and experts in intellectual disabilities from around the world.
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