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.

Not What You Think

Yesterday our organization was the beneficiary of an amazing performance put on by Not What You Think at Dublin Roasters Coffee. First we just want to say thank you to this amazing group for using their time and talents to help our organization raise funds and awareness for our mission to help kids and families […]

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SaMP Kids – March project week 2

This month the SaMP Kids are working on a few small projects for Make A Wish Mid Atlantic. We started off with a team building energy busting activity where one person couldn’t see and their guide had to get them through an obstacle course. Then we had the privilege to have one of our samp

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SaMP Kids – Make a Wish Presentation

Yesterday we kicked off our March Compassion project with a presentation by Kari Hartbauer from Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic. Most of the kids knew about Make-A-Wish and what they do but it was a lot of fun hearing all the smiles they bring to kids who are facing serious medical conditions. Kari shared this video of Addy’s

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SaMP Kids ~ Middle Ridge Farm

In January and February, SAMP Kids Compassionate Kids Club partnered with Middle Ridge Farm and Rescue in Middletown! Whitney case to speak to our club and the kids decided that a service day at the farm would be a great way to help them! Last week, the kids got to the farm and realized horses

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Sophie & Madigan’s Playground at West Side Regional Park

Sophie and Madigan’s Playground is excited to have received approval from City of Frederick Parks and Rec to put our destination memorial park on this property. Just one more step – approval of our MOU by the Mayor and Board to be official! We will post updates as they become available. More information visit http://www.cityoffrederick.com/987/Westside-Regional-Park-Task-Force

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Five years ago

Five years ago two of our beautiful girls we taken from us. Half our family gone in the blink of an eye. Our sweet and giving Sophie. Our precious spunky Madigan. Five years ago we lost our pets. Our Kenny and Creedance the cats Jack and I got when we first moved in together. Our

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We have Princess Half Marathon Spots!

You read that right! We have a few half marathon, and challenge spots open! These races are SOLD OUT through Disney but because of our unique charity partnership with runDisney we have a few spots left just for you!  Take some time to register to run with us! http://www.sophieandmadigansplayground.org/dphmw.php

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Run like a Princess 1k

With our Disney Princess Half Marathon team gearing up to leave for Disney in just a few short weeks we held our local sister run Run like a Princess 1k! It was a gorgeous unseasonably warm 1k around Baker Park ~ We had an amazing team this year who worked hard to raise just over

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SaMP Kids

We are looking for organizations who are interested in presenting their needs to the SaMP Kids – Compassionate Kids Club at the beginning of each new project. Do you know someone who has a need that we might be able to help with? Presenters would need to be able to join us at a meeting

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Walt Disney Marathon Weekend

We are incredibly excited to share the news that that our Team SaMP runners at this year’s Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend has already raised nearly $28,000 for Sophie and Madigan’s Playground!!!! 45 runners from 17 different states will be running for Sophie and Madigan at Disney World over the next 4 days. To each

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