Best Buddies Minnesota

Everyone deserves a friend and everyone should feel included in their community.

Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our programs empower people with IDD by helping them form meaningful friendships with their peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society.

At Best Buddies Minnesota, we believe that EVERYONE deserves to belong in our schools, our workplaces, our communities, and our homes. Currently, we impact more than 25,000 people annually with elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and community-level friendship and leadership development programs. We depend on volunteers and supporters, like you, to move our mission forward and make inclusion a reality.