The Best Buddies Friendship Walk is more than the name implies – it’s a community celebration to spread understanding, friendship, and laughter and is more like a fair or carnival than a walk or run. Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to inclusion for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Their programs provide meaningful opportunities for people with IDD to form friendships, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve communication skills, and feel valued by society. Their Friendship Walks, which are hosted across the country, are instrumental in sustaining and growing local friendship, employment, and leadership development programs.