Leadership is How Our Playhouse Grows
Sarah Berndt- Vice-President Our Playhouse is lucky to have incredible leadership, which allows our Playhouse community to grow. In our eight years of serving the Madison community, there have been many individuals who have contributed to our success. Each person brings their own talents to our team and assists in...
Unique Ways to Support GiGi’s Playhouse Madison: 8 Creative Giving Options for a Worthy Cause
We wanted to share some unique ways to support GiGi's Playhouse Madison, which provides invaluable services to individuals with Down syndrome and their families. Here are several options to consider: Monthly Giving with Incentives By signing up for monthly donations, you can ensure an easy way to give that you...
Shake it Up! An Advocate’s Dance Blog
This is a Dance blog by Maya Greengus, GiGi’s Playhouse Madison’s first board member with Down syndrome. Check back often to hear more from Maya, as she plans on sharing throughout the year – here and via our social media channels. Maya, 7 years old The power of dance in...
Growing and Celebrating with Strategic Planning
Board and Staff sharing a giant check for a donation a local church gave us! Each year, our Board of Directors and staff come together to learn how we've been growing and celebrating the past year during our Strategic Planning retreat. An important part of this exercise is to set...
Volunteer and Program Spotlight: One on One Math Tutoring
Our Math Program is only possible because of our amazing volunteers and is built based on the ways in which individuals with Down syndrome learn best. Knowing that our participants vary greatly in their abilities and challenges in comprehensive math, we combine multiple approaches that utilize multi-sensory teaching. Graduated levels...
A Safe Place for the Entire Family
GiGi's Playhouse Madison is a welcoming and safe place for the entire family! We hear time and time again how families come here and 'can breathe' and 'put their shoulders down'. This is a place filled with people sharing similar experiences and always has 'good energy'. We are proud to...
A Place for EVERYONE to Grow
by: Sarah Bitter As a new volunteer and intern at GiGi’s Playhouse this past Spring Session, I got to experience for the first time how special of a place GiGi’s really is. I saw the tremendous progress of so many of our program participants: just beginning to crawl, learning new...
Where Passion Meets the Greens
GiGi’s Playhouse Madison is gearing up for another impactful fundraiser this August. Our 4th Annual ‘Go FORE It’ Golf Outing, where passion meets the greens, will be held on Monday, August 5th at Lake Windsor Country Club in Windsor, WI. GiGi’s Playhouse supports the Down Syndrome Community by providing FREE...
GiGi’s Playhouse Madison- Executive Director
Kelly Antonson has been promoted to GiGi's Playhouse Madison's first Executive Director. GiGi’s Playhouse Madison is excited to share the promotion of Kelly Antonson to the first Executive Director of the Madison Playhouse. Kelly started with the Madison Playhouse as a volunteer in early 2018 with various roles. She began...
Family Involvement is the Foundation of our Playhouse Community!
YOU are the foundation and heart of our Playhouse community and are needed to help us do our best! We have an exciting opportunity for our families to join our newly formed Family Outreach Committee! The role of the Family Outreach Committee will be to: Connect parents/givers in the Down...
Start Practicing Your Golf Swings!
The 4th annual Go FORE It Golf Outing is SOLD OUT as of 7/23/24. This fun day on the Lake Windsor Country Club course will be the most inspirational round of golf you'll have all year. All funds raised from this outing will directly benefit about 400 families in the...
Thank You for Celebrating Acceptance
Our third annual Dash for Down Syndrome was another incredible display of acceptance! On April 27th, we welcomed over 400 people to Winnequah Park in Monona on a gorgeous Spring day! This was the first year it was warm and the sun came out! We started the day with the...