Best Buddies in Wisconsin welcomes, Jaimee Hrabik, as an Employment Consultant for the Best Buddies Jobs program!
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March is Best Buddies Month and what a month it was! Best Buddies Wisconsin got to celebrate our friends with intellectual and develop-mental disabilities…
On February 8, 2020, Best Buddies in Wisconsin hosted Project: Inclusion at Divine Savior Holy Angels High School and welcomed over 100 excited student leaders.
Best Buddies in Wisconsin is proud to partner with Bethesda College…
Kelly and Emily were matched in October of 2018 and have enjoyed spending time together over the past year…
It is with great sadness that we share the loss of Abby Meihsner. Abby was born to eternal life on July 13, 2019.
Best Buddies WI is proud to honor Sarah Binder as our 2019 Advisor of the Year.
This past school year, we directly impacted more than 36,000 students, parents, teachers, and community members through our friendship and leadership programs…
March is Best Buddies Month, a perfect time to highlight all the wonderful characteristics and abilities of our friends with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Before becoming involved in Best Buddies, I had an unfulfilled passion within me to advocate for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)…
We’ve been matched since fall of 2017. She’s a ray of sunshine that on many occasions has turned the worst days completely around. Because of her Angelman Sydrome,..
Best Buddies in Wisconsin partnered with Associated Bank to host its inaugural Leadership Academy Training.
Steinhafels Sponsors Six Wisconsin Best Buddies Friendship Programs.
2018 has been filled with many new adventures, and of course, another year of friendship and inclusion. As we dive into our 30th anniversary, let us first reflect on all we accomplished in 2018.
On January 12, 2019, nearly 200 Best Buddies student leaders, faculty advisors, and parents came together for our annual Project: Inclusion event.
On Thursday, November 1st, 2018, Best Buddies in Wisconsin hosted our annual Leadership Breakfast at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.
During the month of October, our middle school, high school, and college chapters host Match Parties to reveal their chapter’s new buddy pairs for the year.
Heart of Canal Street is Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s signature community program that raises funds for children’s charities – and Best Buddies Wisconsin is in the running to be a 2018 beneficiary!
With the start of the new school year comes new and exciting changes here at Best Buddies Wisconsin. We are thrilled to welcome four new staff members to the BBWI team.
If you imagine the purest, most beautiful thing you could see, that’s Tatyana Spidell to me. We’ve been matched since fall of 2017. She’s a ray of sunshine that on many occasions has turned the worst days completely around…
Best Buddies Wisconsin welcomed 64 participants from across the state to the 29th Annual Best Buddies Leadership Conference in Bloomington, Indiana. These high school and college students, ambassadors, volunteers, and staff met almost 3,000 Best Buddies participants from around the world, all while strengthening their leadership skills.
This April, Best Buddies WI held our annual Brewers Game and Tailgate. We had a record number of Best Buddies participants attend! This event welcomed all Best Buddies Wisconsin Chapters to enjoy an afternoon of games, food, and the opportunity to meet some of the Brewers players!
Spread the Word to End the Word is a national campaign to end the use of the R-word. The campaign was started to create more accepting attitudes and communities for all people by asking people to pledge to end the use of the derogatory word.
On January 27, 2018, nearly 200 Best Buddies student leaders, faculty advisors, and parents came together for our annual Project: Inclusion event at the Divine Savior Holy Angels High School.
Best Buddies Wisconsin would like to thank all of our participants, supporters, volunteers, and donors for a fantastic 2017! We have so many successes in 2017 to be thankful for.
It was an incredible and inspiring morning where more than 260 of our friends and supporters joined us in celebration. The event raised more than $85,000, which will be used to support our friendship and leadership development programs in Wisconsin.
Upon successful completion of the Ambassador training program, Buddy Ambassadors go on to participate in a number of local events and speaking engagements. To show you our Ambassadors mission in action, we want to shine a light on Brianna Powers (Bri).
Best Buddies Wisconsin school friendship programs continue to grow with nearly 650 buddy pairs in 50 chapters throughout the state.
Heart of Canal Street is Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s signature community program that raises funds for children’s charities – and Best Buddies Wisconsin is in the running to be a 2017 beneficiary! Help give the gift of a promising future by playing the Canal Street Bingo game now through Dec. 14.
We want you to get to know our two new Program Managers a little bit better, so we interviewed them! Check out some of their fun facts below.
We want you to get to know our two new Program Managers a little bit better, so we interviewed them! Check out some of their fun facts below.
A culture of giving back…that’s the Steinhafels motto. Steinhafels does not like to stay hidden behind the doors of its stores across the region. When we first started our conversations with their staff about a partnership, that commitment to community was very apparent through their work with more than 100 local nonprofits each year.
In the seven years I have known Sam, he truly has become the best friend I have. We like to get ice cream, go to the beach, and take walks in the parks in our area. We can do these activities and just be happy to be in one another’s company. We chat about our surroundings, laugh at stupid things, and enjoy chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream without ever feeling judged.
In the seven years I have known Sam, he truly has become the best friend I have. We like to get ice cream, go to the beach, and take walks in the parks in our area. We can do these activities and just be happy to be in one another’s company. We chat about our surroundings, laugh at stupid things, and enjoy chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream without ever feeling judged.
Buddies teamed up at DeLong Middle School in Eau Claire Wednesday to help end hurtful speech. Groups of students went around to different classrooms to make a presentation and encourage fellow classmates to pledge to stop…
On January 28, nearly 150 Best Buddies student leaders came together for our annual Project: Inclusion training at the Northwest YMCA. This year’s event featured an advanced ambassador training, as well as guest speakers and workshops focused on building an inclusive community and improving leadership skills.
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