Global Acceptance Hits The Road!!!
GiGi's Playhouse is THRILLED to announce that Nationwide Rail Services has donated a brand new tractor trailer that has been custom branded with images of GiGi's participants as well as messaging about belief and acceptance. The tractor and trailer will travel to various events for GiGi's Playhouse as well as...
Therapeutic Program Excellence Committees and Purposeful Impacts at home!!!
GiGi’s Playhouse guides and support individuals with Down syndrome and their families through life’s milestones and celebrations. We do this through purposeful and progressive programs from birth through adulthood. As part of GiGi’s Playhouse longtime commitment to our families, we’ve embarked on revisions and expansions of our therapeutic programming. Our...
Chicago Booth School to Help GiGi’s Playhouse
GiGi’s Playhouse has officially been chosen by the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business for two separate projects! The first initiative is a 10-week consulting project as part of their Social Enterprise Initiative. This project is part of a project within the MBA program called the Social Enterprise Lab...
2016 GiGi’s Playhouse Awareness Calendars
When you purchase a GiGi's calendar, you are standing for belief and acceptance. Proceeds from calendar sales directly fund programs expenses at Playhouses all across the network. Please contact your local Playhouse online to purchase 2016 calendars!!!
GiGi’s Playhouse 2015 National Conference: Bigger Better Stronger Together!
Bigger Better Stronger Together!!! GiGi's Playhouse 2015 National Conference welcomed 36 operating and emerging Playhouses from all over the country and Mexico!!! Balancing Lines, Belief, Big Dreams and Best of All! What an AMAZING 2015 GiGi's Playhouse National Conference! THANK YOU to all of our amazing board members, staff and...
Generation G
Generation G is a MOVEMENT - Standing for people of all different abilities and their rights to dignity, opportunity, and global acceptance. Generation G is a MINDSET - Finding the inner strength to harness the good and take action. Generation G is an ACTION PLAN - Engaging families, volunteers, donors,...
Angels from San Diego
From Nancy Gianni, President and GiGi's Mom: I always struggle to describe GiGi's because each location and each connection means so much to so many people - all in very different ways. To some families it is a learning center, to others a support center, to others a place to volunteer,...
An Unexpected Blessing: Jaida’s Amazing Journey
Jaida is a blessing we never saw coming and we are so grateful for. As a daycare owner and parents of a 20+ year old, my husband and I knew we were done having children. Or so we thought. One day, this beautiful child was brought to our in-home daycare...
A Daily Stand for Global Acceptance
GiGi and Sam at one of their many dance recitals at Bataille Academie of the Danse. Friends: today we come to you with troubling news – news that demonstrates why GiGi’s Playhouse fights so hard every day for Global Acceptance. We BELIEVE that people of...
Heroes BELIEVE: Kristen and Katelynn!
There are heroes among us every day. Children, adults, parents, siblings, volunteers, donors, and more. Here is one of their stories from the 2016 GiGi's Playhouse Calendar shoot: I believe that heroes don't always have capes or shiny armors; heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers...
From Our Nashville Playhouse : Sylvie’s Story
GiGi's Playhouse offers 30+ FREE Educational and Therapeutic programs advancing literacy, math, motor skills, speech, nutrition, fitness, career skills and more. One of the most successful programs at GiGi's Playhouses across the nation is Language Music N' Our Peeps (LMNOP). LMNOP guides parents and infants through learning basic sign language...
GiGi’s : Stronger Together
30 GiGi's Playhouses from around the country and in Mexico participated in our 6th Annual GiGi's Board Conference at the Schaumburg Convention Center. It was 3 days of inspiration, education, networking and fun! #StrongerTogether The conference ended with a banquet where our adult interns with Down...