Author name: Sophie & Madigan’s Playground

In 2013 our family was struck with an unthinkable tragedy when our home caught fire and we lost our beautiful daughters Sophie & Madigan. Sophie & Madigan’s Playground was formed to keep the girls memory alive through our Play Learn Create programs and the development of a public memorial park.

SaMP Kids – Compassionate Kids Club

SaMP Kids is a weekly service based group with the goal of teaching kids that their acts of compassion both big and small can make a big difference in their community. The kids pick the project each month and work together on each step to figure out how to make the project successful.  —– At […]

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Great Paint Parties

Last night we kicked off our Pink Friday with a super cute sign painting night with Great Paint Parties LLC. This is the third year that owner Christine Kinney has generously offered her time and talents to raise awareness and funds for SaMP.  Great Paint Parties LLC offers step by step paint instruction to groups.

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SaMP Kids! 

This Monday November 14th Sophie & Madigan’s Playground will meet for their very first SaMP Kids Compassion Club! This service based club is the brain child of big sister Morgan, she wanted a way to help keep her sisters giving spirits alive along side other kids. SaMP Kids will strive to teach kids of all

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Amazon Smile really does give back!

Have you guys heard of this? Amazon has a way for you to give back to SaMP in one of the easiest ways possible. If you remember to shop http://www.smile.amazon.com you can choose a charity that you love, to receive a portion of every order. All you have to do is choose Sophie & Madigan’s

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Enterprise Holdings Foundation 

This week I got the exciting news from our friend Robin at Enterprise that we were the recipient of the Enterprise Holdings Foundation Grant for the 3rd year in a row! Enterprise has helped us by way of volunteers, and with grants and donations several times since we stared this journey to help kids and

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Gearing up for Wine and Dine

As our official RunDisney charity team packs their bags, checks their to lists, and peeks to make sure their kids didn’t swipe the insoles to their running shoes. (Yes, that happened to Jack) We just wanted to take a minute to say – Thank You, thank you, thank you!  Our #runningforsophieandmadigan team is such a

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Not so scary Halloween at Adventure Park

I love Halloween – like absolutely love it – the excitement the kids have as they plan their costumes – the weather – all of it appeals to me. Plus who doesn’t love candy! Adventure Park has a fun Not-So-Scary Family Halloween Party!  We will be there set up to hand out candy and SaMP

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PINK FRIDAY

So you’ve heard of Black Friday but what about Pink Friday? Pink Friday is a unique way for people to kick off their holiday shopping and give back to their local community. Rather than waiting for the traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season on Black Friday, this is an opportunity to get your holiday

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PLAY LEARN CREATE

One of the goals of Sophie & Madigan’s Playground is to create free and low cost opportunities for kids and their families to PLAY  LEARN and CREATE together in ways that reflect things that Sophie and Madigan would have loved to share with their community. We do this in a lot of ways, with big

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