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Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 11, 2012

Loretta Claiborne on TED!

Loretta Claiborne was the last speaker at TEDxMidatlantic this past October — and they certainly saved the best…

Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 14, 2012

Empowering Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s Future

This is a guest post from David Evangelista, Senior Director of Multilateral Partnerships and Development.

Special Olympics Lebanon youth leader delivers moving keynote address at the IFRC Global Youth Summit in Vienna…

Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 11, 2012

“True Enjoyment of the Sport”

By Karyn

Special Olympics Singapore athletes showed off their football abilities in a clinic under the Singapore America Soccer Exchange on 5 December.

Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 3, 2012

The Crucial Moment for CRPD

By Tim Shriver

The other day I watched a short profile on ESPN of a dad named Heath White, who has a daughter with Down Syndrome. He was brutally honest about how before she was born he didn’t want her and tried to do everything he could to avoid having…

Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 6, 2012

Senate Fails to Ratify CRPD

By Tim Shriver

Theodore Roosevelt once said that American politics is World politics, a statement that reflects America’s proud role as the world’s moral compass. Yesterday, with the U.S. Senate’s failure to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons…

Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 21, 2012

Tim Shriver Named “Peacemaker” in 2012

Tim Shriver with Wu Lei at 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Shanghai, China.

An op-ed in the 20 December 2012 Boston Globe by Harvard University professor Nicholas Burns…

Special Olympics in The Playbook

Dec 17, 2012

Aloha, Senator Inouye

By Tim Shriver

Today, the Special Olympics movement lost a champion, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), who throughout his time as Senator fought for acceptance of people with intellectual disabilities. Both at home in Hawaii and as a national leader, Sen. Inouye…

October 2012

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