The Best Buddies Friendship Walk is a fun-filled community fundraiser to support your local Best Buddies programs of inclusion. Our friendship, integrated employment and leadership programs educate people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to be advocates for social inclusion in your community.
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OUR IMPACT
Since the first Friendship Walk in 2009, they have become an integral part of the Best Buddies annual calendar. Our walks not only raise essential funds for our local offices that directly impact the strength of our programs, but also provide a powerful public awareness event.
Each walk affords us the opportunity to celebrate the importance of the Best Buddies mission, educate the public on the need for social inclusion, and empower people with IDD to become leaders within their community.
In 2011 alone, over 9,000 walkers collected over $750,000 for their local Best Buddies offices.
Lead by example, become a participant, team captain, or a sponsor and learn more about our cause while teaching others the benefits of inclusion.
"Best Buddies is an amazing organization that is meant to change the lives of individuals with disabilities every day. It is easy to say that we made a difference in our buddies' lives, but the real outcome is how they change us, as leaders, as peoples, as friends." - Rachel Johnson, Eastern Illinois University
BE A TEAM CAPTAIN
Team Captains are the leaders who can help us be successful through the organization of teams. You will serve as the link between Best Buddies and potential walkers. You create power in numbers by motivating friends, family, coworkers, and others to join you in the Friendship Walk.
You will make a difference in the life of a person with IDD, and being a team leader is easy and fun!
