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Become a Unified Partner

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Unified Partners are people without intellectual disabilities who train, compete, learn, and lead alongside athletes with intellectual disabilities.

Become Event Staff

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Every Special Olympics event is powered by volunteers working behind the scenes to make sure athletes can do what they came to do, showcase their abilities. Volunteer Event Staff are the steady force that brings competitions to life by creating a safe, organized, and welcoming environment where inclusion is visible in action.
Community Impact

Alumni Leadership Network Spotlight: Christa White

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Christa has spent her career helping people see what’s possible, not just for organizations, but for themselves.
Community Impact

Polar Plunge® for Special Olympics

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Every year brave souls line up to take an icy plunge, the Polar Plunge! The Polar Plunge—sometimes held in conjunction with the Law Enforcement Torch Run— is a huge fundraising effort benefiting Special Olympics and the athletes.
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Become a Coach

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Coaches teach the skills and spirit that define a true athlete. Coaches are role models and character-builders. Learn more about becoming a Special Olympics Coach.
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Become an Official

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Special Olympics sports officials ensure adherence to the rules and safe competition, and are necessary to ensure the integrity of the sport.

Become Event Staff

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Every Special Olympics event is powered by volunteers working behind the scenes to make sure athletes can do what they came to do, showcase their abilities. Volunteer Event Staff are the steady force that brings competitions to life by creating a safe, organized, and welcoming environment where inclusion is visible in action.
Europe Eurasia Stories

Summer Games Take Centre Stage Across Europe Eurasia

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The summer is in full swing and that means one thing for the athletes of Special Olympics: the opportunity to compete and celebrate on their national stage at Summer Games!
Programs

Burkina Faso

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Programs

Burkina Faso

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Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

It’s at the local level—right here—where interested volunteers meet the athletes. That’s where the perceptions start to change and where the miracle of transformation takes place.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
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