Best Buddies Australia has been nominated for a 2009 City of Sydney Business Award!
Specifically we’re nominated for the Disability Inclusiveness Award. This is great news for us as it’s another step on the road to getting our message out there; Best Buddies Australia is all about inclusion! However we need your help. To increase our chances of winning, we need your vote.
To help with the process, I thought it might be useful to tell you a bit about how Best Buddies Australia is inclusive.
- Firstly, we have Michael Bartels on our Board. Michael is simply amazing. Not only does he assist us with the broad strategic direction of Best Buddies, he also assists with training our participants, provides feedback on program delivery and works with sponsors to deliver a top quality program. Michael is invaluable to our organisation. Michael has an intellectual disability.
- This year Best Buddies Australia ran our 1st Annual Leadership Conference. This was a great day aimed at Leadership and Social Inclusion. On the day, Best Buddies Ambassador Deborah Hutton provided a tailor made workshop for our Buddy Directors (Young people who have an intellectual disability). The workshop was about how to create a great speech. The young people who attended learnt how to speak up for themselves and how to show leadership.
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Finally, for those of you who don’t know exactly what we do....we match young people and adults who have an intellectual disability with an age related peer who does not have a disability. We then support a mutually enriching one to one friendship and ask the Buddy Pair to ‘hang out’ together or a regular basis. The program is about having a bit of fun, treating people with respect and including a group of people in our community who often don’t have a voice.
http://www.sydneybusinessawards.com.au/sba/vote/(id)/574
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Finally, I would ask that you send on this email to your networks. I can’t promise that it will bring you good luck, or that you will receive a free phone in the post, however you can rest assured that through goodwill and the power of networks a little ‘not for profit’ can achieve its big dreams.
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Thanks for your support.
Mark Trevaskis
Executive Director
Best Buddies Australia
Building Friendships, Changing Lives
Phone: (02) 9211 8722
Mobile: 0434 481 273
Email: mark@bestbuddies.org.au
WWW.BESTBUDDIES.ORG.AU
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