2019 Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port Impact Report

Carolane Pinard, 3-year Challenge participant, with Dan Bivens, Best Buddies Ambassador

Your impact, our programs!

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Thank You! 3,750

guests and more than 15,000 supporters helped us raise $6.6 MILLION—

Event Chair:

ALL for our program participants

Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture

Honorary Co-Chairs

Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador Guy Fieri, Celebrity Chef Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III

During the Challenge, Best Buddies honored Steve DiFillippo, chef, restaurateur and owner of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston, with the 2019 Spirit of Leadership award.

Steve has been involved with Best Buddies for six years, including being a Jobs employer and helping launch the Food and Wine Festival.

Bret Fleming, Best Buddies Ambassador and volunteer, presents Claire McManus, MTeam member with a medal at the Finish Line.

Katie Meade, Best Buddies Global Ambassador

Our Four Mission Pillars One-to-One-Friendship

Integrated Employment

Funds raised by Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port support One-to-One-Friendship Integrated Employment and Leadership Development*

In January 2019, Best Buddies launched Inclusive Living, its fourth mission pillar, in which people with and without IDD can live independently in a dynamic environment where they can learn, grow and thrive together.

Leadership Development

Inclusive Living

Audrey Ayer and Stephanie Yokoyama, Friendship program buddy pair

Because of you!

More than 323 Best Buddies chapters and 646 friendship matches are being supported throughout the U.S.

431 people with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) will have job opportunities throughout the U.S.

In Massachusetts, 100 companies and organizations employ Best Buddies Jobs Participants!

“Before I joined Best Buddies, I was always home. Now that I have a job, I’m more out in my community. Since I’ve been working at Marshalls, I’ve been speaking more clearly, and speaking up for myself. I’m more independent, and I know how to get around on the bus.

Jobs

Best Buddies is a wonderful organization that helps people find jobs, and the job coaches are great. They check up on you and see how you’re doing. Even though they’re not blood family, they’re like family to me.”

Sharlisha Johnson

Jobs program participant, TJX

“Best Buddies is good about listening to people and matching them up with the type of employment they are looking for. I’m a facility coordinator in the Boston area and find the experience rewarding.

Thanks to Best Buddies, I enhanced my resume, I can create a development plan in my workplace and socialize with my co-workers.”

Lee Seidler, Jobs program participant, Google

Jobs

Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port Sponsors and Ride Teams that support Best Buddies Jobs program include: ®

TEAM KATES BARLOWE

THE MENTOR NETWORK

“Finally, I feel like I BELONG. I feel WORTHY. It’s a step towards meeting my goal of being INDEPENDENT. This is all possible because of YOU! So, I thank you for my amazing job and life.

Without you, I would just be a shadow, not given the opportunity to shine.”

Caley Versfelt

Best Buddies Ambassador

75 Best Buddies Ambassadors throughout the U.S. received scholarships to attend our 2019 Best Buddies Leadership Conference in Bloomington, Indiana.

Leadership

Guy Fieri with Food and Wine Fest Chefs and Best Buddies Sous Chefs

Third Annual Guy Cooking with Best Celebrity Chef Food and Wine Festival

Buddies

More than 30 chefs from top local restaurants provided food tastings, with the help of 26 Best Buddies sous chefs, along with complimentary wine and spirits.

Participating Restaurants and Businesses Bambolina Boston Burger Company CBS Sporting Club Chobani Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse

DiLuigi Foods Fazenda Coffee Roasters Flour Bakery + Café Grill 23 & Bar Guy Fieri’s Foxwoods Kitchen + Bar il Molo

Legal Sea Foods Mike’s City Diner Mystique Prezza and Tonno Restaurants Rino’s Place Rochambeau Scorpion Bar

Select Oyster Bar & Grand Tour Michael Star Market State Park Strega Prime Strip by Strega The Tip Tap Room Tuscan Kitchen Boston

2,000 phenomenal riders raised $3.85 million!

Top 10 Individuals

TOP 10 BBC HP Individuals Raised

1. Jamie Hintlian 2. Mark DeVincentis 3. Noam Watt 4. John Christian

5. Tom Brady 6. Steve Roge 7. John Griffin

8. Aaron Watt 9. John Ferris 10. Matt Schwartz

$554,842

Why I Ride

“Participating in the ride and in BB programs has helped not only our 27-year-old son develop lifelong friendships but has also helped our family grow in more ways than you can imagine. It has enriched the lives of our two daughters who have become president and secretary of our local high school BB chapter. It introduced our extended family to the idea of being more accepting and inclusive of intellectually disabled individuals.

I ride so that BB programs will continue to enhance the lives of families and individuals”.

Bud Anderson

20-Year Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port Participant

TOP 10 BBC HP Teams Raised $2,397,888 Top Corporate Teams Silicon Valley Bank

Eaton Vance Natixis Greenberg Traurig John Hancock Seyfarth Shaw Amundi Pioneer Foster Grant & Friends Bob’s Discount Furniture Service Now

Total: $957,241

Team Silicon Valley Bank

Top Community Teams Team Tom Brady

Team Marlowe King James Buddies Patriot Pedalers The MTeam Team Gilbane Team Mallory Team Sunshine Team Believe Team Andrew Ferris

Total: $1,440,647

2019 is the 20th anniversary of Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port! The first Challenge was held in 1999, when Best Buddies Founder Anthony K. Shriver, an avid cyclist, was inspired to create an amazing event that would bring people together to “cycle, support and celebrate” — all for Best Buddies’ mission of inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Hip-hop artist Flo Rida with (from left) Best Buddies participants Katie Doyle, Lauren Griffin and Kendra Maler

Celebration

At the celebratory clambake, hip-hop artist Flo Rida rocked the crowd and brought Best Buddies participants on stage to sing with him — a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

Presenting and Top Sponsors committed $1,907,500!

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Nick Charland, Best Buddies alum, greets Heidi Powell at the Finish Line

Volunteers

250 volunteers worked 3,570 hours reducing staffing costs by $90,785!

Laura Falcone, 2019 Buddy Chair, crosses the Finish Line

Global Headquarters

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