KRUSING AMERICA: Special Olympics

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Saturday Study & Learn: SPECIAL OLYMPICS World Games LA 2015 starts TODAY!

One of my favorite events and favorite non-profits is The Special Olympics and THIS year the Special Olympics World Games 2015 will be head in my town of Los Angeles July 25 - August 2, 2015.

With the start of the World Games TODAY - what better Saturday Study & Learn blog post than to learn a little more about The Special Olympics.

Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015

Special Olympics, the global leader for people with intellectual disabilities, will hold the world’s largest sports and humanitarian event in the world capital for media and entertainment in 2015, uniting the world through sports in a celebration of the abilities and accomplishments of people with intellectual disabilities and forming a new global vision of acceptance.

July 25 - August 2, 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA
6,500 Special Olympics athletes
165 Countries
30,000 Volunteers
2,000 Coaches
500,000 Spectators
Single biggest event in LA since the 1984 Olympic Games

Their Vision:
Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015, a milestone event of a long-lasting movement, founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, to create a world that is not dominated by those who are excluded but by those who are included. The biennial World Games are the flagship event of the Special Olympics Movement, and this summer, the world’s largest sports and humanitarian event will come to the world capital for media and entertainment.

Cameron Crowe one of the 2015 World Games Global Messengers:

Cameron began participating with Special Olympics when she was 5 years old and a kindergartner at Nipomo Elementary School. She has competed every year since in the San Luis Obispo County Area Meet.

When she was 8, Cameron was asked to sing the National Anthem for a Special Olympics Opening Ceremony celebration. This began a long tradition of her singing the National Anthem at a variety of Special Olympics and community events. Cameron Crowe just one of several Global Messengers this year.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are Honorary Chairs of the Games with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and CA Governor Jerry Brown as Honorary Hosts.

For more information on the 2015 Special Olympics World Games visit www.LA2015.org and on social with #ReachUpLA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Wednesday Women: Women Helping Women / The WIN: Women's Information Network CEO Paula Fellingham

WIN Founder, Paula Fellingham & Producer, Linda Kruse

Over the past 10 years I have been in contact with The Women's Information Network or The WIN because of the family-friendly content I created like GINO CUCINO and KRUSING AMERICA. Last year though I finally had the pleasure to meet Paula Fellingham, the founder and CEO of The WIN but also meet many, many other amazing women at The WIN's Women's Summit in LA. That event and those women - are truly making an impact in their own lives and all the lives they have connected with - including mine.

Me w/ Shawn LaRe' Brinkley & Jackie Carlson

That is just one of the many reason why I am featuring Paula Fellingham and The WIN on my Wednesday Women of the World blog post.

Please read on to learn more about The WIN, their upcoming Special Olympic Event this weekend and their Global Women's Summit.

“Women Helping Women Live Our Best Lives”

Speaker, Norma T. Hollis (middle)

The WIN mission is to strengthen women and families worldwide through education, enlightenment, and entrepreneurship, in an effort to eradicate illiteracy, poverty, and hunger, and to increase the level of love, prosperity, and peace on earth.

The WIN is at the forefront of the present global women’s movement. The WIN provides women worldwide with online and on land education and empowerment in their personal lives and in their businesses. The WIN invites all women of all ages, all cultures, and all religions to participate.

Dr. Paula Fellingham founded and is now the CEO of The Women’s Information Network (The WIN) an online educational and social network for women and an on land global community of women in 152 countries. See www.theWINonline.com. The WIN hosted the largest gathering of women in the history of the world on March 8, 2011: 377 live events in 152 countries. The WIN is now presenting 1,000 Global Women’s Summits worldwide.

Internationally-acclaimed speaker, Dr. Paula Fellingham has given presentations at the United Nations, for the World Movement of Mothers in Paris, at the International Conference of the Worldwide Organization for Women, and numerous other conferences across the world. Paula participated in the World Congress on Families in Geneva, and at the World Movement of Mothers International Conference at NATO Headquarters.

SPECIAL WIN EVENT – CELEBRATING CHAMPIONS!

July 25-26, 2015

LA Convention Center/LA Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA USA

At this event for women The WIN will honor the magnificent Special Olympic women athletes AND the “Champion” in every woman. Featuring Fabulous Live Entertainers! Amazing Networking!!

Event ticket includes admission to the Special Olympic Opening Ceremony on Sat, July 25th, at the LA Coliseum (while Ceremony tickets last). $80 for two-day “Celebrating Champions” event AND Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies. $50 for two-day event, not including the Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies. $30 for one of the two event days…FIND OUT MORE »

GLOBAL WOMEN'S SUMMITS:

Global Women’s Summits are part of a spectacular, historic Global Women’s Initiative to educate and enlighten women worldwide, and to engage in discussions (in every country) about women’s issues and needs, and then to support women as they create positive change in their personal lives, families, businesses, communities and nations.

To read more about Global Women’s Summits, click here. We invite you to also watch “The WIN Story” ~ a 3 min. video. This will help you truly understand The WIN mission and our unprecedented Global Women’s Initiative.

For more information on The WIN please visit: https://www.womensinformationnetwork.com