- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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26 people are interested
Best Buddies Seeks Volunteers for its Worcester, Massachusetts Friendship Walk
ORGANIZATION: Best Buddies Worcester
Please visit the new page to apply.
- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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26 people are interested
We are looking for committee members to fill any of these roles, or simply help out with the walk in general. * Publicity Chair: Promote this event through social media, local papers/news outlets, distribute flyers, etc. * Team Recruitment: Solicit new corporate and community teams (in Central Mass), communicate with team captains regularly up until the event. Let's get as many walk teams out as possible to support! * Donations: Solicit in-kind donations (ie: coffee, food, incentive prizes) for the day of the walk. * Sponsorship: Help secure corporate, individual, and community sponsors. * Mission/Community: Promote this event to local non-profit organizations and encourage them to come out and table at the event, plan mission-focused activities. Monthly meetings will be held in Worcester and are optional. The Friendship Walk event will be on May 17th, 2015, at UMass Medical School in Worcester.
More opportunities with Best Buddies Worcester
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Best Buddies Worcester
Location:
45 Bromfield Street, Boston, MA 02108, US
Mission Statement
To establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Description
Founded in 1989 by Anthony K. Shriver, Best Buddies is a vibrant, international organization that has grown from one original chapter to almost 1,900 middle school, high school, and college chapters worldwide. Best Buddies programs engage participants in each of the 50 United States, and over 50 countries around the world.
Best Buddies’ eight formal programs -- Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges, Citizens, e-Buddies , Jobs, Ambassadors, and Promoters - positively impact nearly 900,000 individuals with and without disabilities worldwide. Best Buddies volunteers annually contribute, at no cost to their communities, support services that equate to more than $168 million USD.
As a result of their involvement with Best Buddies, people with IDD secure rewarding jobs, live on their own, become inspirational leaders, and make lifelong friendships. Although Best Buddies has advanced tremendously in its short existence, many areas of the country and many regions of the world still lack programs to help people with IDD become part of mainstream society. With that in mind, Best Buddies is systematically implementing its 2020 Initiative, which will witness the organization’s continued significant growth, both domestically and overseas
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
55 North Lake AvenueWorcester, MA 01605
DATE POSTED
April 15, 2016
SKILLS
- Organization
- People Skills
- Relationship Building
- Verbal / Written Communication
- Fundraising
- Community Outreach
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- About 1 hour per week