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About Special Olympics Southern California
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization. In Southern California, more than 12,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities participate in year-round sports training and competition, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. Special Olympics programs are offered at no cost to the athletes and their families.

Goals for the movement as a whole include: worldwide growth in the number of athletes from 2.5 million to 3 million by 2010; to promote global athlete leadership and dedicate the movement to empowerment and dignity, not to charity; and to change attitudes around the world about people with intellectual disabilities to emphasize potential, ability and acceptance.

About nonprofitshoppingmall.com
Nonprofitshoppingmall.com was created to help selected nonprofit organizations raise additional unrestricted funds via on line shopping at leading retailers. After working in special events and in the nonprofit arena for more than 20 years, President & Founder Corine Couwenberg became mindful that while much time and energy was allotted to producing events, running capital campaigns, cultivating both donor and sponsor relationships and grant writing, little was being done to mobilize a nonprofit's existing support base. By shopping through nonprofitshoppingmall.com, supporters become donors with each and every purchase they make.