Volunteer Spotlight: Francesca Giancola
Volunteer appreciation week is April 16-22, but we have so many wonderful volunteers to talk about it, that we’ll be celebrating all month! GiGi’s Playhouse Madison is 99% volunteer run – which means we wouldn’t be here without our volunteers. It’s pretty incredible to think back on all of the...
Demystifying Becoming a Literacy or Math Tutor
WE NEED YOU Our Summer 2024 tutoring session will kick off in June and we are expecting a high number of applications from our families. Our tutor applications for the Summer 2024 session are open! The Summer session runs from June 17th-August 23rd. Tutors and students meet on the same...
Dash for Down Syndrome Team Spotlights!
Our 2nd annual Dash for Down Syndrome is on April 29th, 2023 at Winnequah Park in Monona. Everyone has their own reasons for participating so we wanted highlight them for you. To learn more or create your own team, click HERE Scroll down to see all our spotlight teams! Team:...
Volunteers That Bring Unique Experiences
Oliva Marcell- Volunteer and Edgewood College Cutting Edge Student Olivia Marcell- Volunteer and College Student who has big plans for her future Please meet Olivia Marcell. We are excited to introduce you to her so we did a mini interview to learn more about her. What are you studying at...
All About Art Explosion
Starting Thursday, February 16, join us at the Playhouse for Art Explosion! Art Explosion is one of our drop-in group programs, and one of the only programs that is open to all ages! Each week, we will introduce a theme and participants will have the opportunity to create art or...
Meet our Friends of GiGi’s 2023!
If you’re reading this, you likely know that all of the programs, resources and support offered by GiGi’s is provided at no cost to participants and their families. GiGi’s programs are 99% volunteer run and funded by the generous support of our donors. Friends of GiGi’s is our annual sponsorship...
Partnerships to Strengthen the Down Syndrome Community
DSAW-SC and GiGi's Playhouse Madison Board and Staff Networking Event We believe that the Down syndrome community could never have too many advocates or too many resources. This is why our Playhouse and the Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin- South Central (DSAW-SC) are working on building a strong relationship. While...
All About LMNOP
Spring programming is right around the corner and that means LMNOP will be rockin’ the Playhouse on Friday mornings. Language Music N’ Our Peeps (LMNOP) is an interactive and engaging program designed to teach parents and young children (0-4 years old) basic sign language and other forms of communication through...
Demystifying Becoming a Literacy or Math Tutor
WE NEED YOU Our Spring 2023 tutoring session will kick off in February and we have over 40 students that have applied to our Math and Literacy one-on-one tutoring session! That's the good news. The not so good news is we only have 10 math or literacy tutors that...
2022- A Celebration of our Year in Review
Thank You! 2022 has been an exciting year for our Playhouse community! There have been so many examples of what it means to be Generation G. Be Accepting Be Generous Be Kind Here's a little recap of the incredible year we've had: February: Kicked off our Spring programming with a full program...
A Magical Holiday Celebration
At GiGi's Playhouse we provide FREE educational, therapeutic and career development programming, so WHY would we spend our time and resources on organizing giant holiday parties? We believe that everything we do at GiGi's is 'purposeful'. We can give you 165 reasons why- thanks to COVID we have not been...
Volunteer Donates a Staggering 2,300 Volunteer Hours
Volunteer can be a scary word. Not knowing how you can contribute or the amount of time you can give is overwhelming to many people. At GiGi's Playhouse we are 99% volunteer run and we are grateful to the hundreds of people that have shared their time and talents us...