Playhouse Sponsorship Opportunities
SPONSORED - Cafe G Studio Kitchen Sponsor
$10,000 IMPACT: Our Studio Kitchen is a perfect place for family networking and artistic activities. Artistic activities are a form of occupational therapy and self-confidence building. Many programs include offering food to teach and encourage proper food choices, mealtime routines and age-appropriate use of utensils, napkins, and manners. This encourages the setting of high expectations.Working in the kitchen gives teenagers and adults the opportunity to learn independent skills to keep them healthy and safe.
SPONSORED - Technology Sponsor
$10,000 IMPACT: Technology equipment includes laptops, iPads, flat screen TV displays, porjector, audio system, and security system.
Exterior Signage Sponsor
$7,500 IMPACT: GiGi's Playhouse is a National non-profit organization and the only Down Syndrome Achievement Center that offers a life-time commitment to the Down syndrome community. Help us purchase a large sign for all to see.
SPONSORED - Classroom / Multipurpose Space Sponsor
$5,000 IMPACT: This space is geared specifically toward the teen and adult population. The room will be configurable to support classroom-style, lounge-style, or expandable to host therapeutic programming and games centered around social skills and language development in an age-appropriate setting. A true "multi-purpose" environment for Adults and Teens!
SPONSORED - Family Room Sponsor
$5,000 IMPACT: The couch is the place of comfort for new parents coming to GiGi's for the first time. Often, this is the first time parents hear the words "Congratulations!" Parents can take it all in and share their journey, fears, and hopes. The family room is also a place for parents to network, observe and share experiences, build acceptance, and find mentors. The group nature of GiGi's Playhouse shows parents that their child has an amazing opportunity to achieve their greatest potential.
SPONSORED - Therapeutic Play Area
$5,000 IMPACT: Children and teenagers with Down syndrome participate in therapeutic play and activities with a variety of equipment, toys and manipulatives to develop motor skills, language skills, and social skills while interacting with their peers and siblings.
SPONSORED - GiGIFIT Equipment Sponsor
$5,000 IMPACT: Adults, teens, and children will enhance their fitness, muscle-tone, self-esteem, self-expression, and socialization skills through GiGiFIT. The GiGiFIT program focuses on improving fitness through strength, endurance, joint stability, balance, and movement control. It promotes wellness through nutrition and building self-confidence. From newborn through adult, the GiGiFIT programs build an environment of lifetime physical therapy and fitness.
SPONSORED - Learning Lab Sponsor
$5,000 IMPACT: These small one-on-one tutoring rooms enable focus with all necessary materials within arm’s reach. The working area in a Learning Lab is an organized and comfortable space. A small working table allows for just enough shared space for tutors, students, parents, and materials. Three available.
Decor Sponsor
$5,000 IMPACT: GiGi's Playhouse will have many empty walls that need paint and decorating. We would love to design a mural, hang a beautiful art gallery of individuals with Down syndrome, purchase rugs and decor in order to make the space feel more like home. Help us add color to GiGi's!
SPONSORED - Entry Area Sponsor
$2,500 IMPACT: From the moment you walk inside GiGi's Playhouse you will be welcomed, celebrated, and it will feel like home. The donor mural will showcase all of the generous people who helped make GiGi's Playhouse Charleston become a reality. The digital wall will allow us to highlight sponsors, volunteers, and announce upcoming programs and events. The entry table will display GiGi's brochures and the sign-in iPad.
SPONSORED: Sound Stage Sponsor
$2,500 IMPACT: The Sound Stage is at the center of every GiGi's Playhouse location offering music, dance and play for all ages.
SPONSORED: Sensory Area Sponsor
$1,500 IMPACT: The sensory area can provide a whole new world to those with Down syndrome. The area will provide individuals with great therapeutic benefits by offering a multisensory tactile experience. The benefits to the sensory area include developing senses of sight, touch, hearing, teaching cause and effect, and providing a sense of security and calmness. It will also help encourage vocalization and communication, improve coordination and gross motor skills among many other benefits.
SPONSORED - Resource Library Sponsor
$1,500 IMPACT: A space with comfy chairs with an assortment of books for all ages to include informational books/guides on Down syndrome (inclusion, sibings, IEP's, behavior, etc.)
Site Coordinator Office Sponsor
$1,500 IMPACT: The Site Coordinator is the eyes and ears of the playhouse. Their office is accessible and visible, but also enables privacy for focused work to ensure a smoothly running playhouse for all participants, family members and volunteers.An audio system that is easily accessible to the Site Coordinator is a critical component to include in this space, as music must be playing at all times in a Playhouse to provide an environment that is welcoming, alive and celebratory.A security camera must also be in the Site Coordinator’s office so that the Site Coordinator can see what’s going on in every room and at the front door.
All sponsorship levels Gold and above can be split into partial or multi-year gifts. For questions or additional information, please contact the team at charleston@gigisplayhouse.org.
