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Best Buddies Alternative Spring Break (BSB)

Best Buddies Alternative Spring Break (BSB). Inclusive Community Service Initiative for Best Buddies Chapters. Engaging Everybody.

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Best Buddies Alternative Spring Break (BSB)

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  1. Best Buddies Alternative Spring Break (BSB) Inclusive Community Service Initiative for Best Buddies Chapters

  2. Engaging Everybody “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” --- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  3. Changing the Paradigm Why am I doing all the work?? COMM-UNITY!

  4. Why service… …if it causes so much pain?

  5. Spring Break Cancun who? Go BSB!

  6. MOVIE Movie

  7. Inclusion I already finished mine… (because everyone loves ice cream!)

  8. True Inclusion

  9. Win-Win

  10. Life Maps

  11. Challenges

  12. Liability Helmet, please! Make that two.

  13. Fundraising • A critical piece of the puzzle • Helps to bring awareness to your ideas (i.e. the trip) • A good way to get your school as a whole to support Best Buddies • Begin with the assumption that the buddies cannot pay their fees

  14. Best Buddies Gala

  15. Best Buddies Gala • Pump up the environment and community excitement for BSB along with Best Buddies • Months in advance • Venue, Date, Time • Music • Food • Entertainment • Ticket sales • Involvement with the school organizations

  16. Goals • Maintain the spirit of Best Buddies • Raise awareness of Best Buddies, intellectual differences etc. etc. • Raise money • Have fun

  17. Expectations Pillow fight! Watch yo’self!

  18. Movie - Adrian

  19. Useful Tips

  20. Partnerships • ACCESS Americorps • State Offices • Vanderbilt Kennedy Center UCEDD • Association of University Centers of Disabilities • www.aucd.org • Faculty Support • Postsecondary Education Programs • www.thinkcollege.net • http://NextStep.Vanderbilt.edu

  21. Advice from Cassidy

  22. Contact Information: • Alice G.H. Kim • Email: a.kim@vanderbilt.edu • Zach Heath • Email: zachary.w.heath@vanderbilt.edu • Jessi Solomon • Email: jessica.solomon@vanderbilt.edu • Adrian Ewing • Email: adrian.jackson5.ewing@gmail.com

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