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• Best Buddies Annual Registration is now live for 2024-2025! Please have all incoming chapter presidents, faculty advisors, and other leaders to complete applications for the next school year by visiting www.bestbuddies.org/lead. We hope to continue the fun with you next year!

  • Best Buddies in Georgia Flexible Deadline: May 1

  • Best Buddies International Final Deadline: June 1
    

• Best Buddies Leadership Conference (BBLC) registration is now live 🎉! Please click here for more info. While BBLC is open to everyone, all high school and college chapters are expected to send one person to the conference. BBLC is scheduled for Friday, July 19 through Monday, July 22 at Indiana University Bloomington.

  • Best Buddies in Georgia Flexible Deadline: May 15

  • Best Buddies International Final Deadline: June 15
    

• End of the Year Report season is finally here! Please access your school’s report here to let us know about your year with Best Buddies.

  • Best Buddies in Georgia Flexible Deadline: May 30

  • Best Buddies International Final Deadline: June 30
    

• The next Leaders League is scheduled for Wednesday, April 10th from 7:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. via Zoom! Please register here.
  

• Has your chapter registered for Friendship Walk yet? If not, what in the WORLD are you waiting for 😅?! We hope you register your school and join us for a day of FREE food, lots of fun, and friendship.

  • Best Buddies Atlanta Friendship Walk

  • Best Buddies Middle Georgia Friendship Walk

  • Best Buddies Coastal Georgia Friendship Walk
    

• Ambassador Training Update - We recently had a quick speaker change for our Ambassador Training this Saturday. With this in mind, we are proud to partner with Miss Georgia South USA, Irielle Duncan, to join us this Saturday, April 13th from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. for our Ambassador Training at The Standard Atlanta! Please click here for the flyer.

Best Buddies Annual Registration is NOW OPEN for 2024-2025!

Happy April! As we continue on the upward path to closing out this school year, would like to extend a friendly reminder for all incoming chapter leaders (Chapter Presidents, Faculty Advisors, and other executive leadership roles) to complete the Best Buddies annual registration for the upcoming school year by visiting www.bestbuddies.org/lead. You don’t want to miss out on what’s in store for 2024-2025! 😁

Completing the registration ensures that we have your updated information on file and is a huge help in communicating with you next year. Your involvement in Best Buddies is greatly appreciated, and we want to ensure that you continue to be part of our community.

We understand that there are a ton of things happening right now, and we truly appreciate everything you do! If there is any way that we can assist in your efforts, please do not hesitate to reach out. We are here to help!

We are excited about the prospect of working with you again in the upcoming year and look forward to all the amazing initiatives we will undertake together. Let us close out the year strong!!

Thank you once again for your continued support and participation in Best Buddies. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or need assistance with the registration process. Again, we are here for you!

Registration is NOW LIVE for the 2024 Best Buddies Leadership Conference (July 19th-July 22nd)!

We are excited to announce that we are returning to Indiana University Bloomington on July 19th-July 22nd for the Best Buddies Leadership Conference! Best Buddies Leadership Conference (BBLC) unites Best Buddies leaders, volunteers, and community advocates from around the globe to imagine, create, lead and empower the future of the disability rights and inclusion movement.  Over the past 30 years, BBLC has inspired thousands of leaders to be Best Buddies advocates and to bring about social change in their communities.

In 2024, BBLC will be held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and will bring together leaders in from all over the world to learn about the Best Buddies movement. While our high school and college chapters are expected to send at least one member to BBLC, we encourage all Best Buddies leaders in our schools and communities to join us!

For more information about registration and general information about the conference experience, please click the button below.

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Best Buddies Friendship Walk: Three Georgia Cities and Locations, Three Times the Fun!

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Friendship Walk season is underway, and we are thrilled to host THREE different walks this year in Atlanta, Macon, and Guyton. A HUGE BEST BUDDIES shoutout to the following schools for creating teams and/or fundraising! We could not host this year’s Friendship Walk without YOU, and look forward to a day of fun.

• Decatur High School

• University of North Georgia

• Pope High School

• Riverwood High School and Heards Ferry Elementary School

• Emory University

• Denmark High School

• Georgia Tech (with Best Buddies Living)

• Beacon Hill Middle School

• Campbell Middle School

• Sand Hill Elementary School

• Ebenezer Middle School

• Blandford Elementary School

• South Effingham High School

• Ebenezer Elementary School

• Tattnall County High School

• Rincon Elementary School

• Springfield Elementary School

• Guyton Elementary School

• Effingham County High School

• King Middle School

• Denmark High School

Best Buddies Friendship Walk stands out as a premier nationwide event dedicated to promoting inclusion for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). With approximately 45,000 participants joining Friendship Walks globally, this event promises a lively and family-friendly celebration featuring FREE food, music, dancing, and fun activities!

We also wanted to share a few of our incentives for fundraising! If you are unable to fundraise this year, no worries! The most important thing is seeing you at Friendship Walk as we celebrate your chapter community. However, there are some pretty cool incentives for individual and group fundraising if you decide to do so.

You have the potential to receive incentives from both Best Buddies in Georgia AND Best Buddies International, so you can get twice as many items! Please see the info below for this year’s incentives from our state office and headquarters.

Also, please check out Best Buddies University and our Google Toolkit for fundraising ideas!

Best Buddies in Georgia School Chapter Incentives

Get excited for the new school year by recruiting next year’s officers and registering for BBLC!

As we gear up for the exciting conclusion of this school year, we have many resources on Best Buddies University and our Best Buddies in Georgia Chapter Toolkit to assist with leader transitions, graduating seniors, and fundraising for Leadership Conference. For more questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Thank you!

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