Special Olympics Inc.

“Timothy p. Shriver, chairman, and maria shriver, director have a family relationship.”

“Chairman, timothy shriver and directors, angelo moratti and maria shriver individually own interests that together control lovin scoopful, llc, whose purposes are (1) to merchandise ice cream and (2) to use its profits to support charities (particularly special olympics).”

“The special olympics federal form 990 is prepared and reviewed internally by senior management and is reviewed externally by an independent tax services firm, raffa, p.c., after which it is submitted by the chief financial officer and chief legal officer to the board of directors' audit and finance committee for review and approval. The final federal form 990 is sent to each board member by email prior to filing with the internal revenue service.”

“Special olympics' conflict of interest policy applies to all special olympics directors, officers, and employees and requires the avoidance of the appearance of a conflict as well as actual conflicts. Special olympics' chief legal officer is charged with enforcing the conflict of interest policy. Potential or actual conflicts are dealt with according to whether the conflict involves a director, ceo, or president (in which case the matter is submitted to the board of directors) or involves another officer or employee (in which case the matter is submitted to the president or ceo). Violations may result in sanctions up to termination. Each spring, special olympics asks each officer, director, trustee, and key employee to complete and sign a questionnaire that includes a copy of the special olympics conflict of interest policy, an acknowledgment that the recipient has read the policy, confirmation that the recipient complied with the policy during the preceding year and up to the date of completing the questionnaire, a statement that the recipient has no conflicts to report or has reported them on the questionnaire, and an undertaking to promptly advise the ceo of special olympics upon becoming aware of any conflict. No special olympics director, officer, or employee who has a conflict of interest may vote or otherwise participate in any final deliberation or decision on behalf of special olympics regarding any contract, transaction, or other matter in which the director, officer, or employee has a conflict.”

“Special olympics' bylaws provide that the board of directors compensation committee shall, subject to approval of the board of directors, annually review, set, and document the reasonableness of the total compensation (including benefits and deferred compensation) for the chair (if compensated), the president (if compensated), and the chief executive officer and review, approve, and document the total compensation (including benefits and deferred compensation) for the senior executives who report directly to the chief executive officer. At least once every two years, the compensation committee presents to the board of directors a written evaluation of the chief executive officer's performance. No member of the board of directors who receives compensation from special olympics shall serve on the compensation committee. The chief executive officer's performance was conducted in 2011 and approved by the executive committee of the board at its june 24, 2011 meeting. The evalution is conducted biennially. The compensation committee conducted an evaluation of the chief executive officer's compensation and presented it to the executive committee of the board of directors at its june 24, 2011 meeting. The evalution is conducted biennially.”

“Special olympics makes its articles of incorporation, bylaws, general rules, and conflict of interest policy documents available to the public on its website at www.specialolympics.org and upon request.”

“Form 990, part i, line 6: according to the 2013 special olympics reach report, in 2013 the special olympics movement had 656,828 adult volunteers, 234,120 youth volunteers between the ages of 12 and 15, 96,000 law enforcement volunteers, 16,804 health volunteers, and 360,392 coaches. The special olympics reach report is an annual summary of key programmatic results achieved by the special olympics movement each year and includes data from all special olympics programs across the globe. Also included are the uncompensated directors.”

“-20 percent increase in the number of athletes involved as spokespeople, volunteers and leaders in special olympics and in their communities -expanded partnership with lions clubs international, encompassing the opening eyes program, plus family health forums, young athletes and unified sports events -christmas record trust grants total $1.7 million in 2013 helping programs in 68 countries, including new programs in ghana and mongolia -law enforcement torch run for special olympics held hundreds of polar plunge events. -additional letr campaigns including red robin tip-a-cop, world's largest truck convoy and krispy kreme cops on doughnut shops -expanded partnership with unicef to support of children with intellectual disabilities azerbaijan, bosnia & herzegovina, malawi, romania, tajikistan, thailand, ukraine, uzbekistan & elsewhere peace corps partnerships now active in 10 countries, including south africa and peru -young athletes/families programs have expanded to five new locations - china, indonesia, malta, mexico and uganda and are now offered by 120 programs worldwide -department of defense grants worked to create communities of acceptance and inclusion on u.s. Military bases in 17 states, korea and japan. Through these, special olympics programs engaged over 20,000 new military volunteers, recruited 2,449 young athletes and hosted 80 competitions. Sustaining athlete health this was a milestone year for special olympics health programs. The healthy athletes program is comprised of seven different health disciplines in which athletes are examined by medical professionals, as well as educated on how to live a healthy lifestyle. This past year, specially trained volunteers who implement the exams hit the 1.4 million mark the total number of free health exams given to special olympics athletes since the program began. Records were also set at the 2013 world winter games in pyeongchang, where more athletes received free health exams in a single day than at any time in the history of the program: 2,569 exams were provided on 1 february alone. 2013 also marked the first full year of the special olympics healthy communities initiative, made possible by a generous gift from b. Thomas golisano. The goal of healthy communities is to reduce health disparities for people with intellectual disabilities so they can attain the same level of health and well being as others in the community. Teaming up with international partners and health advocacy groups including catholic relief services, unicef, peace corps, the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies, and stomp out malaria -- we have been mapping out strategies to address hiv, malaria, tuberculosis and waterborne diseases. This work is already transforming the way governments, communities and medical professionals address health issues for people with intellectual disabilities. In one example, a special olympics partnership with two different dental schools in peru will mean free dental services and follow-up care for people with intellectual disabilities year-round. Building on early momentum, healthy communities launched programs in eight countries kazakhstan, malawi, malaysia, mexico, peru, romania, south africa and thailand -- and six u.s. States - arizona, florida, kansas, new jersey, new york and wisconsin. In its first year, the initiative has generated partnerships with 146 organizations, universities and healthcare providers, resulting in new opportunities for education, treatment for athletes and financial support. With the largest health database focused on people with intellectual disabilities, special olympics uses data to inform policy makers, universities, healthcare providers, researchers, media, and others of the health needs of this population. As part of its ongoing evaluation work, special olympics also uses data to inform programmatic improvements and identify existing gaps and replicable solutions to enhance the impact and efficiencies o”

“-partnered with the walt disney company and espn on a two-year global initiative to expand unified sports, providing more opportunities of sports and friendship -teamed up with major league soccer on high-profile unified sports and community events across the u.s., aimed at bringing the world's most popular sport to more athletes with intellectual disabilities -expanded unified sports to include more than 704,000 athletes and partners around the world -special olympics athletes played alongside legends from euroloeague and the union of european football associations as part of euroleague's final four weekend in london -continued partnership with the michael phelps foundation led to expert training for hundreds of special olympics swimmers, with events including a seminar in uruguay that drew participants from 16 nations -partnered with top coaching education providers -- american sport education program and the national federation of state high school associations -- to develop and deliver customized online courses for continuing education certification requirements for special olympics coaches -major regional unified cup qualifiers held in poland, costa rica, thailand and qatar -expanded online training and education that reached more than 2,100 coaches in north america alone -sports coaching guides available in digital mobile format for 28 sports -innovative online coaching resources hitting new levels of popularity: 30,000 unique visitors to our online sports resources and over 1.2 million page views -head coaches regional training seminars held in saudi arabia for five sports -- volleyball, bocce, handball, cycling and badminton -- plus a games management software course -camp shriver programs expanded to all 7 special olympics regions, including 15 programs that launched their first-ever unified sports events in football, bocce and basketball -first-ever unified sports train the trainer sessions held in singapore for programs from asia pacific and east asia regions, offering structured approaches to coaching and competition”