Welcome to the Special Olympics Sport Partnership Toolkit! Sport Partnerships are an integral part of sport in Special Olympics. The goal of sport partnership development is to engage sports communities in a collaborative effort to deliver high impact sports programming that promotes the physical, social, and emotional wellbeing of people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). By fostering these partnerships, programs can obtain resources and exposure needed to increase capacity and offer high impact sport training and competition opportunities.

This Toolkit focuses on partnership development with International, Regional, National, and Local sport and multi-sport governing bodies. The purpose of this toolkit is to assist Special Olympics programs in establishing new relationships with national sport federations while supporting programs in enhancing existing national sport partnerships to maximize their impact.