GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge Brings in $1.6 million and Massive Awareness

The good news is that it is still not too late to join us! 

With just several in-person GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge events to still occur this year, we are happy to announce it will be our most successful Acceptance Challenge yet!

Across the network we raised $1.6 million… and counting! That’s equivalent to 32,000 hours of Literacy or one-on-one Math lessons!

Starting the GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge 5K in Hoffman Estates, IL

Our homebase, Inc./Hoffman, brought in $272,500, making it the most successful GiGi’s 5K event in the last 5 years! Wow! During three previous years, four playhouses worked alongside the Hoffman team, hosting and fundraising the event. This year the Inc./Hoffman team, with some help from Fox Valley, and the other three Playhouses, successfully hosted their own events, growing the enormity of the overall campaign.

Equally important is the number of people who moved for acceptance! More than 10,000 people across the nation and Mexico participated! This replicable event model allows each GiGi’s Playhouse to grow year after year.

Another huge win from the 2022 GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge, was the growth from new events across the network! Even though all GiGi’s Playhouse locations operate under a hub-and-spoke model, not all locations fundraise the same way. This new, replicable event model turned out to be an enormous success to many playhouses hosting peer-to-peer events for the first time! Just check out some of these numbers:

It is not without the support of the entire GiGi’s Playhouse network that we made this a reality. Thank you for bringing our mission into your daily lives. If we keep growing in this direction, the GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge will be a household name across the country and eventually around the world!