Maria Shriver is a journalist, author, and the founder of the nonprofit the Women's Alzheimer's Movement. Her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics in 1968. (Wikimedia Commons)

The upwelling of support for the Special Olympics in the face of proposed budget cuts is an exemplary demonstration of community advocacy, write Maria Shriver, whose mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics, and former Ohio governor John Kasich. Shriver and Kasich say the reaction, which emphasized the value of inclusion, showed the value of “com[ing] together, ris[ing] above our partisan concerns and us[ing] our voices to champion a cause that unites us all.”