Best Buddies Minnesota

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

Best Buddies is a global volunteer movement dedicated to creating communities of inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) through friendship, jobs and leadership development. 

At Best Buddies Minnesota, we're all about making room for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in our schools, our workplaces, our communities and our homes.

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 the special abilities of 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.

We depend on our volunteers, like you, to help us create communities of inclusion through our Friendship, Jobs and Leadership Development programs in Minnesota. We hope you'll join our mission of inclusion and get involved today!