Special Olympics Indiana has dedicated staff - both paid and volunteer. The County Coordinators do an amazing job doing the real work of providing opportunities to people with intellectual disabilities.
Recent changes, however, have been robbing local programs of their hard-earned fundraising dollars, since the State Office has been skimming off the top to cover "operational expenses." They've also been skimming from the middle. And the bottom.
For years the State Office would do almost nothing to help local programs raise money for their activities. The local programs rose to the challenge and many of them raised a lot of money to serve the growing numbers of athletes. The State Office wants a piece of that action now that their own fundraising efforts have increasingly failed with high staff turnover and a despot for a leader.
The Board of Directors has, for years, been somewhat enthusiastic but relatively uninvolved. They've allowed themselves to be swindled and hoodwinked by the current (as of Aug. 2015) E.D. They are very comfortable NOT asking questions or reading between the lines. They are failing the organization and its athletes.
Review from Guidestar