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Minnesota Twins and Opportunity Partners Team Up to Give 60,000 Gifts to Fans

The Minnesota Twins have asked nonprofit Opportunity Partners to help prepare promotional giveaways for fans during the 2012 baseball season. Sixty thousand official Minnesota Twins schedule posters will be rolled, banded and boxed by adults with disabilities at Opportunity Partners in Minnetonka, where Minnesota’s disabled community can find employment, training and residential programs.
 
“The Minnesota Twins selected Opportunity Partners once again to help prepare promotional posters for the 2012 season,” says Luis Lozada, purchasing manager for the Minnesota Twins. “We were so pleased with their dedication to quality and efficient turnaround last year, coupled with the fact that their goal is to provide work opportunities and independence to Minnesota’s disabled community, that the decision to use them again was an easy one.”
 
The posters, sponsored by the Star Tribune, will be given to the first 20,000 fans at each of the home games against the Texas Rangers on April 13, 14 and 15 at Target Field.
 
About Opportunity Partners: Opportunity Partners is a nonprofit organization serving 1,700 people with disabilities annually through employment, training and residential programs. Opportunity Partners – redefining “disability” through advanced learning, deep community support, and meaningful work – proving that everyone, when given the opportunity, adds value to our world. www.OpportunityPartners.org

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