About Best Buddies - Best Buddies International
Our Programs92% of all revenue goes directly to Best Buddies programs for people with intellectual disabilities, while only 8% is spent on administration and fundraising.
When people with disabilities are unable to attain or maintain a job, it is most often due to an absence of social skills rather than an inadequacy to perform the work required. Best Buddies introduces socialization opportunities and job coaching, providing the necessary tools for people with intellectual disabilities to become more independent and, consequently, more included in the community.
• Best Buddies Middle Schools matches students with intellectual disabilities with other middle school students and creates one-to-one friendships between them. In today's middle schools, students with intellectual disabilities enter the same building and walk the same hallways as their peers, but are very often left out of social activities.
•Best Buddies High Schools matches students with intellectual disabilities with other high school students and creates one-to-one friendships between them. By introducing Best Buddies to public and private high schools, we are crossing the invisible line that too often separates those with disabilities from those without.
• Best Buddies Colleges matches people with intellectual disabilities with college students and creates one-to-one friendships between them. In the past, individuals with intellectual disabilities have not had the opportunity to have friends outside of their own, often isolated, environment. By becoming a College Buddy, volunteers offer a Buddy the chance to explore life in a new way.
• e-Buddies® creates respective e-mail friendships between people with and without intellectual disabilities. Using the technology of e-mail, Best Buddies brings additional unconventional opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities through e-Buddies. Visit our web site, http://www.ebuddies.org/, to find out more.
• Best Buddies Citizens pairs people with intellectual disabilities in one-to-one friendships with other individuals in the corporate and civic communities. Without love, support, and friends, our lives would be empty - a life people with intellectual disabilities have been forced to live throughout history. Volunteers are changing this by simply sharing their time with new friends.
• Best Buddies Jobs is a supported employment program. Its goal is to secure competitive, paying jobs for people with intellectual disabilities. The program targets job sites, competitively places individuals and promotes ongoing support and training. This enables people with intellectual disabilities to work as respected individuals alongside others in the community.
Our Programs92% of all revenue goes directly to Best Buddies programs for people with intellectual disabilities, while only 8% is spent on administration and fundraising.
When people with disabilities are unable to attain or maintain a job, it is most often due to an absence of social skills rather than an inadequacy to perform the work required. Best Buddies introduces socialization opportunities and job coaching, providing the necessary tools for people with intellectual disabilities to become more independent and, consequently, more included in the community.
• Best Buddies Middle Schools matches students with intellectual disabilities with other middle school students and creates one-to-one friendships between them. In today's middle schools, students with intellectual disabilities enter the same building and walk the same hallways as their peers, but are very often left out of social activities.
•Best Buddies High Schools matches students with intellectual disabilities with other high school students and creates one-to-one friendships between them. By introducing Best Buddies to public and private high schools, we are crossing the invisible line that too often separates those with disabilities from those without.
• Best Buddies Colleges matches people with intellectual disabilities with college students and creates one-to-one friendships between them. In the past, individuals with intellectual disabilities have not had the opportunity to have friends outside of their own, often isolated, environment. By becoming a College Buddy, volunteers offer a Buddy the chance to explore life in a new way.
• e-Buddies® creates respective e-mail friendships between people with and without intellectual disabilities. Using the technology of e-mail, Best Buddies brings additional unconventional opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities through e-Buddies. Visit our web site, http://www.ebuddies.org/, to find out more.
• Best Buddies Citizens pairs people with intellectual disabilities in one-to-one friendships with other individuals in the corporate and civic communities. Without love, support, and friends, our lives would be empty - a life people with intellectual disabilities have been forced to live throughout history. Volunteers are changing this by simply sharing their time with new friends.
• Best Buddies Jobs is a supported employment program. Its goal is to secure competitive, paying jobs for people with intellectual disabilities. The program targets job sites, competitively places individuals and promotes ongoing support and training. This enables people with intellectual disabilities to work as respected individuals alongside others in the community.
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