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Karen – Best of All
Preparing for the 2020 GiGi’s Fundraising Marathon, October 24th – #Best of All Previous Marathons Marathon route on October 24th — for GiGi’s Partners for Step to Accept Violet’s Elementary Graduation – Summer 2020, Karen, Tim, Violet Karen is one of our Founding Moms for GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities – St. Louis Park. She is…
Read MoreJoyce – Volunteer Spotlight
Aloha Dance at GiGi’s Celebrating Halloween at GiG’s Joyce and Isaiah at Home Joyce and Isaiah Enjoying a Selfie Joyce is the mother of Isaiah, who is a young adult in his early twenties. About three years ago, Joyce found out about GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities from another family who has…
Read MoreAmelie – Best of All
Amelie, one of our amazing adult self-advocates, joined our GiGi’s community in June 2017. Amelie is kind, bright, thoughtful, hard-working, and friendly. She has participated in so much adult programming in person at the Playhouse in St. Louis Park: Fantastic Friends, Social Skills/Speech – Self Advocacy for Adults, EPIC, as well as attending the quarterly…
Read MoreSahra – Volunteer Spotlight
Over this past year, Sahra, an amazing mother and leader in our GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities community, has inspired many other Somali mothers to get their children involved with the free, progressive, purposeful, educational and therapeutic programming at GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities. Families immediately hear Sahra’s story of her life with her almost seventeen-year-old son…
Read MoreMeet Peter – Best of All
Peter, one of our adult self-advocates, has been involved with GiGi’s Twin Cities Programming for almost four years. Peter is a kind, smart, curious, and thoughtful member of our community. For our in-person programming, he has taken part in Speech skills, Self-Advocacy for Adults, Dance, Fantastic Friends, Theater, EPIC, and Music/Choir just to name a…
Read MoreMeet Carmella – Milly and Ava’s Mom, plus Running for Hennepin County Commissioner – District 6 – Volunteer Spotlight
Carmella visited GiGi’s Playhouse – Twin Cities for the first time at the end of February this year. She visited our playhouse in St. Louis Park, with her daughters Milly, age 4, and Ava, age 6. Carmella and her daughters had an amazing Saturday morning at our playhouse. Milly immediately felt right at home with…
Read MoreStacey – Volunteer Spotlight
Stacey, a Physical Therapist, found out about GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities from our Speech Language Pathologist volunteer, Rae, raving about GiGi’s at her daytime job. (Shout out to Rae for always being an ambassador for GiGi’s in our community, all the time!) In no time, Rae put together a meeting with Santi, Program Manager, Stacey,…
Read MoreMeet Chase – Best of All
Chase just started attending GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities last year. His older brother, Austin, is a volunteer and was able to be a mentor with Chase in EPIC at GiGi’s. Chase loves his family, friends, his dog – Turbo, and his cat – Bucca. He loves playing sports, especially baseball, basketball, and soccer. He is…
Read MoreNancy and Aaron (Big Guy) – Volunteer Spotlight
From the very beginning of our opening for GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities in 2013, Nancy and Aaron (Big Guy) have always been here. Families and participants, especially our teens and adults, as well as families of teens and adults, always know that they can count on Nancy and Big Guy to be there for them.…
Read MoreMeet Adam – Best of All
Adam has been involved with GiGi’s for over a year. He participates in tutoring, yoga, and Young Athletes. He loves everything – including playing with babies, grocery shopping, and making new friends. Thank you Adam, and your entire family, for being part of our GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities community!
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