Causes: Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Health, Health Care, Human Services, Special Olympics, Sports

Mission: To provide year-round sports training and athletics competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities of all ages by providing them with continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, prepare for entry into school and community programming, express courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes, their peers and the community.

Programs: With the assistance of 11,597 volunteers, in 2017, special olympics massachusetts provided training and competition in 23 individual and team sports and staged 296 athletics events. These events involved 15,314 children and adults with and without intellectual disabilities. The organization offers a program to engage the whole school in sports, leadership and education programs. The sports program is known as unified sports, a program which students with and without disabilities train and compete side by side on the same team. The leadership programs involved youth organizing sporting and education events such as a track & field meet or an anti-bullying campaign aimed at educating students at the derogatory use of the "r" word. In 2017, the organization maintained a partnership with the massachusetts interscholastic athletic association (miaa) and the massachusetts association of student councils (masc) to help grow our school programs across the state.