{"id":13842,"date":"2018-12-15T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T00:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2018-12-15T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T00:30:20","slug":"2000-hours-of-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/uncategorized\/2000-hours-of-achievement","title":{"rendered":"2000 Hours of Achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 2018 comes to a close, we want to thank all of you for your support of the Playhouse here in the Quad Cities. The Quad Cities is a great place to be and we are blessed with the support the community shows us each year.<\/p>\n<p>We have outstanding volunteers, families, and donors that make GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Quad Cities what it is. What is GiGi\u2019s? It\u2019s a place for families touched by Down syndrome to feel welcomed, accepted and loved. A place for individuals with Down syndrome to achieve their best of all and be celebrated along the way. A place to connect families with one another and to build lifelong friendship. A place to help the community with understanding and acceptance for ALL regardless of abilities.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year at GiGi\u2019s Quad Cities there have been approximately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>1,700 program\u00a0participant check ins\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>2,800 hours of\u00a0educational and therapeutic\u00a0programming<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>1,000 volunteer opportunities<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>2,000 volunteer hours logged<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Over 2000 hours of helping individuals achieve their #bestofall!! And the year isn\u2019t over yet!\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As we look ahead to the exciting New Year, together we will continue to deliver acceptance and belief to\u00a0many families in our community through\u00a0<strong>FREE\u00a0programs, positive energy and high expectations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Your commitment to\u00a0and support of GiGi\u2019s\u00a0Playhouse is the reason we are able to do so much. Your help and support truly changes lives!<\/p>\n<p>If you have given this year, we <strong>thank you from the bottom of our hearts<\/strong>! If you are in the giving spirit and looking to do any end of year giving, we ask you to keep GiGi\u2019s in mind and know that your donations will help individuals with Down syndrome achieve the acceptance, dignity and quality of life that anyone deserves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/Happy-New-Year-from-GiGis-Playhouse-Quad-Cities-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/connect.clickandpledge.com\/w\/Form\/c9c90b65-23a4-4438-b318-6866d3926d30 noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13843 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/Happy-New-Year-from-GiGis-Playhouse-Quad-Cities-2-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/Happy-New-Year-from-GiGis-Playhouse-Quad-Cities-2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/Happy-New-Year-from-GiGis-Playhouse-Quad-Cities-2.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.clickandpledge.com\/w\/Form\/c9c90b65-23a4-4438-b318-6866d3926d30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13844\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/donate-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/donate-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/donate-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/donate-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/files\/2018\/12\/donate.png 1278w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2018 comes to a close, we want to thank all of you for your support of the Playhouse here in the Quad Cities. The Quad Cities is a great place to be and we are blessed with the support the community shows us each year. We have outstanding volunteers, families, and donors that make&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,306,17,360,283,203],"class_list":["post-13842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gigisblog","tag-best-of-all","tag-down-syndrome","tag-end-of-year","tag-giving","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/quadcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}