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Special Olympics Hires New Staff
Special Olympics New Hampshire is excited to announce several new employees to the SONH family.
Tricia Messler has been hired as the Special Olympics Manager of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA). She will oversee the introduction of Unified Sports® in NHIAA member high schools as well as work with schools to introduce youth leadership activities to students.
Beth Ann Paul has been hired as the Administrative Program Assistant. Beth Ann's primary duties include assisting the program department with registration and compliance paperwork.
Bill Jones has been hired to coordinate the Young Athletes Program (YAP). YAP is an innovative sports play program for children ages 2 to 7 with intellectual disabilities. Bill will work to expand YAP in New Hampshire allowing more people the opportunity to experience the benefits of Special Olympics. |
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Did You Know?
Special Olympics hold a World Games every two years alternating between winter and summer? The 2013 Winter Games will be held in Pyeongchang, Korea and just announced on Wednesday, the 2015 World Summer Games will be held in Los Angeles.
Click the following links to learn more about Pyeongchang 2013 or LA 2015. |
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SONH Softball Results
The SONH Softball Tournament was held on September 10th at Wheelock Park in Keene. The tournament attracted more than 140 Special Olympics athletes and partners for competition in Unified Team and skills competitions.
Click here to view the results. |
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EKS Day
On September 24th, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Day (EKS Day) will be celebrated around the world bringing together people with and without intellectual disabilities in sport activities to honor the inspiration, impact and indomitable spirit of Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
While nearly 4 million Special Olympics athletes and millions of coaches, families, fans and friends live her legacy and lead our movement every day, we unite on EKS Day in over 100 countries and thousands of communities to show the world the power of sport to create opportunities of acceptance.
For more information click here. |
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Cops On Top Raise Awareness and Funds for SONH
Police officers and Police Explorers raised $274 as part of the Cops on Top fundraiser at Granite State Harley-Davidson on August 19th and 20th.
The police were on the rooftop of the Lebanon based business for two days promoting awareness of Special Olympics and encouraging the public to contribute to SONH in order to get them off the roof.
Thank you to NH law enforcement for their continued support of SONH. |
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Newsletter Name
We received more than 60 submissions via Facebook to name our newsletter. With so many great ideas we look forward to announcing the winner and sharing with everyone our updated newsletter in our next edition (2 weeks). Thank you to everyone that took the time to give us suggestions. |
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NHIAA/Special Olympics Partnership to Change School Environments
Special Olympics New Hampshire (SONH) has partnered with the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) to create three seasons of Special Olympics Unified Sports® within New Hampshire high schools beginning this fall.
The collaboration between the two organizations will bring New Hampshire high school students with intellectual disabilities and their peers without disabilities together on the same team. The Unified Sports® teams will compete against other unified teams in regular season play and will culminate with a championship. The NHIAA and SONH partnership will feature unified play in soccer in the fall, basketball in the winter and track and field in the spring.
Mary Conroy, President of SONH said, "The partnership with the NHIAA is exciting because it will allow students with intellectual disabilities that may have not felt part of their school the opportunity to have a real connection to the school and their fellow students."
Both the NHIAA and SONH are promoting the Unified Sports partnership through Special Olympics Project UNIFY®.
Special Olympics Project UNIFY is an education-based program that uses the sports and education initiatives of Special Olympics to activate youth to promote school communities where all young people are agents of change - fostering respect, dignity and advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities.
Read the story about our partnership that appeared in the Union Leader. |
Special Olympics Ranked Number One for People With Disabilities by Philanthropedia
Special Olympics has earned the number one spot on a newly released national list of non-profit organizations serving people with disabilities. Philanthropedia, a subsidiary of industry non-profit data leader Guidestar, evaluates nonprofit effectiveness by surveying industry experts to identify high-impact non-profits.
Ranked first of 11 leading non-profit organizations serving people with disabilities, Special Olympics was awarded this top distinction by a Philanthropedia group of 79 experts, including foundation professionals, nonprofit senior staff, academics, and researchers. The experts evaluated organizations' strengths in leadership and organizational reach, which resulted in Special Olympics' ranking as the organization with the greatest impact on the intellectual disability community.
"On behalf of our entire Special Olympics movement worldwide, we are honored to be given this prestigious ranking from Philanthropedia," said Dr. Timothy P. Shriver, Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics. "This recognition reflects the hard work of all our athletes, coaches, volunteers and leadership to show the world the power of sport to create acceptance and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities."
Accordingly to Philanthropedia, approximately 54 million individuals (20% of U.S. population) in the United States live with at least one disability. Special Olympics works to impact communities within the United States and around the world, as an estimated 200 million people worldwide have intellectual disabilities.
Click here to visit Philanthropedia |
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Golfing to Benefit SONH
The Works Health and Fitness Center is hosting it 10th Annual Golf Tournament to benefit Special Olympics New Hampshire. The tournament will begin at 8am on Sunday, September 25th at Nippo Lake Golf Course in Barrington. This event is a four person scramble open to all ability levels.
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Download the event flier here. - For more information please contact Matt Hussey at The Works Health and Fitness Center (603) 748-2163 ext. 15.
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NAS Donates Nearly $4,000 to SONH
The NAS Insurance Group presented Special Olympics New Hampshire (SONH) with a check for $3,995 last month at the SONH office in Manchester.
NAS refurbished and sold computers from their company and donated the proceeds to SONH. The project was spearheaded by NAS employees Mike Frarie - Swiss Re (NAS) Global IT and Adam Teixeira - IT Consultant. Both Mike and Adam joined SONH Director of Development, Carol Cray and SONH Director of Communications and Grants, Rob Porreca for the check presentation.
Thank you to Adam and Mike and everyone at NAS for their continued support of SONH. |
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Golf Opportunity for Unified Teams
Special Olympics Connecticut is hosting the 2011 New England Invitational Golf Tournament Saturday, October 8th at the Raceway Golf Club in Thompson, CT. The event is offered at no cost to you, if you're interested in attending please contact Amy Petrie at SONH by Thursday, September 22nd. Space is limited and available on a first come first serve basis.
For more information on the event please click here.Amy Petrie can be contacted via e-mail at AmyP@sonh.org or by phone at 603-624-1250 ext. 44. |
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About Us
The mission of Special Olympics New Hampshire is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. |
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