3 posts tagged Eunice_Shriver

In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, it’s fitting to take a look at the woman who founded the Special Olympics in 1968. A long-time advocate for better schools, programs, and acceptance for the mentally-challenged, Shriver started Camp Shriver, a camp for mentally-disabled children, at her family’s Maryland estate in 1962.

Nonprofit leaders, activists, educators, and anyone interested in making our country -- and world -- a better place won't want to miss American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver. This inspiring new documentary shows how Shriver, though overshadowed by his in-laws, the Kennedys, was the driving force behind many innovative social justice initiatives in the 1960s.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was hospitalized in Boston recently. It has not been released what exactly the illness is or what has caused Eunice Kennedy Shriver to get so bad. Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been a great instrument in causing good things to happen. Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the special Olympics which was back in 1968.