{"id":18362,"date":"2020-07-24T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T21:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/?p=18362"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:42:21","slug":"gigis-playhouse-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/gigis-playhouse-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of GiGi’s Playhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"
Did you know how GiGi’s Playhouse began?<\/div>\n
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My 6-year-old son, Franco, created our first logo! We started as a Down Syndrome Awareness Center and our tagline was Educate Inspire Achieve. Though, whenever I spoke about the Playhouses I always added the word Believe to our tag line too! As time went on it felt as if the Playhouses were evolving into education and learning centers but those names felt limiting because everyone who walked into GiGi\u2019s grew! Whether it was from confidence, education, therapy, or empowerment everyone including our volunteers were growing and achieving! That was it! We were all achieving and by taking that out of the tagline I could finally officially add the word BELIEVE! So in 2012 with 12 Playhouses open and 10 more scheduled to open within the next year, we officially changed the name to GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Centers with a tagline of Educate Inspire Believe!<\/div>\n
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-Nancy Gianni, GiGi’s Playhouse Chief Belief Officer, and GiGi’s mom<\/p>\n

Now you know!<\/p>\n

\u2022 2003 Down Syndrome Awareness Centers<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tagline – educate inspire achieve<\/p>\n

\u2022 2007 Changed from .com to .org<\/p>\n

\u2022 2012 – changed the name to Down Syndrome Achievement Centers<\/p>\n

\u2022 Changed tagline to educate inspire believe<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Took the kids out of the logo<\/p>\n

\u2022 2013 added GiGi University<\/p>\n

\u2022 2013 changed tagline Confident U Healthy U Whole U<\/p>\n

\u2022 2016 added #GenerationG<\/p>\n

\u2022 2020 added GiGi’s At Home programming!<\/p>\n

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#alwaysgrowing<\/a><\/p>\n

#strongertogether<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Did you know how GiGi’s Playhouse began? My 6-year-old son, Franco, created our first logo! We started as a Down Syndrome Awareness Center and our tagline was Educate Inspire Achieve. Though, whenever I spoke about the Playhouses I always added the word Believe to our tag line too! As time went on it felt as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1275,1300,1277,1280,1264,1261,1254,1250],"tags":[13,1278,1279],"class_list":["post-18362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playhouse","category-acceptance","category-believe","category-disabilities","category-down-syndrome","category-independence","category-programs","category-special-education","tag-gigis-playhouse","tag-nancy-gianni","tag-strongertogether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/milwaukee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}