Jenna – Volunteer Spotlight
Jenna receiving the, GiGi's Twin Cities "Volunteer of the Year Award 2020" Jesse and Jenna at the Gala in February 2020 Jenna, Jesse, Annabelle, Eli Hudson Homies with Extra Chromies, Step to Accept 2020 Promoting Down syndrome Awareness in October through messages with Annabelle on social media. Eli, Beekeeper in...
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 –...
Joyce – 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...
Amelie – 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...
Sahra – 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...
Meet 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...
Meet 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...
Stacey – 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...
Meet 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,...
Nancy 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...
Meet 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!
Jen – Volunteer Spotlight
Jen, mother of Erin and Owen, has been involved with GiGi’s Playhouse Twin Cities for the past three and a half years. Jen first began by participating in programs like Kids Club alongside her children, Erin and Owen, and quickly jumped in to be one of our fantastic volunteer leaders....