Advocacy in Action
Guest Blog by: Jennifer Strauss. Jennifer is a self-advocate who shares her insights and learnings with her community and encourages advocacy in others as well. Jennifer allowed us to share this post she made on her social media: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the long post but I need to say this...
Life-Changing One on One Programing Applications for Summer 2024 to Help Do Your Best
Summer applications are open April 22nd - May 13th, 2024! One-on-One programming is an important part of our full programming offerings at GiGi's Playhouse Madison and applications are open on April 22nd. We would like to share a little more about what we have! As a reminder, cost will never...
Math and Literacy Tutoring – WE NEED YOU!
Our Math and Literacy one-on-on programs have become high demand. We need volunteers to TUTOR! Our Summer Session 2024 runs from June 17th-August 23rd. Tutors and students meet the same day and time each week. Tutor Applications are now open! Applications close May 13th. We KNOW what you're thinking.. 'there's...
Ready, Set, Go! Take Action
This is a 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. The GiGi’s Playhouse Madison Dash for Down Syndrome is about...
Assume EVERYONE Can- in their own way
By now, you have likely seen this viral and impactful video from NDSS (National Down Syndrome Society). We do believe our Down syndrome community should be given a chance to do whatever they choose to do instead of having others decide that for them. This video really brings that point...
Celebrating our Literacy Tutors for National Reading Month
March is National Reading Month in honor of Dr. Seuss’s Birthday - a great reason to celebrate our amazing Literacy Tutors! Our Literacy Program uses research based progressions to help people with Down syndrome learn to read using a framework created by experts. Although we give our tutors a framework...
A Playhouse Family’s Beautiful Story
Guest blog by Playhouse mom, Missy Miller. Life has a bigger plan for us than we know - rewind to year 2006, it was high school graduation and I had a plan. I thought I always knew what I wanted to do when I was "older" and my career path...
Are You Ready to Dash?
Our third annual Dash for Down Syndrome is on April 27th at Winnequah Park in Monona. We have a goal of raising $60,000 and we have already raised $35,000! We need YOUR HELP in raising the funds that will not only reach our goal, but more importantly allow us to...
2024 Dash for Down Syndrome Team Spotlights
Our 3rd annual Dash for Down Syndrome is on April 27th, 2024 at Winnequah Park in Monona. Everyone has their own reasons for participating so we wanted to highlight them for you. To learn more or create your own team, click HERE Scroll down to see all our spotlight teams!...
Community Generosity
Our participant Matt is helping us add donor recognition leaves to our robust donor tree! Our donor tree is beautiful focal point of our Playhouse and represents the generosity of our community. Each leaf represents an individual or organization who has given $1,000 or more through life-time giving (it does...
Incredible Interns
As a 99% volunteer run organization, we rely on the time and talents of all our volunteers. We have so many people willing to give their time to our Playhouse community that we are consistently in the top 5% of annual volunteer hours across our entire network of 58+ Playhouse...
Celebrating a Best of All Moment
Celebrating a 'Best of All' moment is a standard practice during all our programming because our friends are ALWAYS giving their best in all they day. Here's a reminder on what 'Best of all' is: https://gigisplayhouse.org/madison/best-of-all/ This week we are celebrating our GiGiFIT adult participant, Michelle. Michelle is always the...