GiGi’s History

-Nancy Gianni, GiGi’s Playhouse Chief Belief Officer, and GiGi’s mom

• 2003 Down Syndrome Awareness Centers

• Tagline – educate inspire achieve

• 2007 Changed from .com to .org

• 2012 – changed the name to Down Syndrome Achievement Centers

• Changed tagline to educate inspire believe

• Took the kids out of the logo

• 2013 added GiGi University

• 2013 changed tagline Confident U Healthy U Whole U

• 2016 added #GenerationG

• 2020 added GiGi’s At Home programming!

#alwaysgrowing

#strongertogether

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