Community Impact

The gymnasium at Perth Amboy High School is at capacity with the student body, gearing up for the traditional students vs. teachers basketball game.

Emily Tymick first got involved with Special Olympics as a volunteer and was hooked quickly, turning it into a career. More than a decade later, she was recognized by her peers as the SONA Sports Person of the Year.

As the world celebrates the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace on 6 April, it's a moment to truly grasp the profound impact that sports have in uplifting those often sidelined within their communities and nations.

Over the past nine months, Nike sponsored a Coach+ initiative called the Nike Unified Football Leagues Development project, providing coaches with additional training and growth opportunities.

On this week’s episode of Inclusion Revolution Radio, podcast host Novie Craven spoke with Spread the Word co-founders, Tim Shriver Jr. and Soeren Palumbo.

In 2023, Topgolf and Special Olympics joined forces in a new global partnership with one driving ambition – to get more Special Olympics golfers playing the game.

Meetings held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on 12 March marked the conclusion of the Special Olympics Operation Safeguard initiative, funded by the European Union's Erasmus+.

It’s a cold and windy weekend in the quiet college town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, but despite it being winter break for Oklahoma State University, you can hear the cheers of students. The campus is playing host to the NIRSA Flag Football national championships, an opportunity for campus rec teams to come together and compete for the trophy and bragging rights. Among the competitors is a group of people truly committed to the inclusive power of sports: the seven teams in the Special Olympics College Club Unified division.

On Windsor Road in Spanish Town, Jamaica, two schools on the same street are separated by a chain-link fence.

Coach Jiang Jianqiang talks about his journey to grow physical education and sport at the special education school he works at in Guangdong Province, China.

Josh Basile, from accessiBe, had the pleasure of hosting a podcast episode centered around this year’s Capitol Hill Day event in Washington, D.C.

This video features: Zoie Breland a Unified partner from Washington, Britney Bautista, a former U.S. Youth Ambassador from Hawaii and Catherine Dayas-Tokoto, a parent from Virginia, in honor of International Women’s Day.