Whole Heart Appeal to date: $2,675 in donations the last two days bringing the whole appeal total to: $21,675! Keep those donations rolling in!

$20,025! Thank you to all who have already responded to our appeal to raise at least $41,500 for our children and families by June 30.  To recap, we have $19,000 in lead gifts already committed; an additional $1,025 has come in as of the writing of this update for a total of $20,025 pledged or…Continued

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” Mother Teresa Give Generously I am constantly moved by the generosity and love you show our children and their families through your support.  I work hard not to take that for granted.  This month, I appeal to your WHOLE HEART by asking you to…Continued

A very special thank you to Season for Sharing for their generous grant that will help the parents and children of A Stepping Stone reach success through quality education.   As some of you may know, Season for Sharing is a wonderful campaign through the Arizona Republic that helps local nonprofits achieve their mission by providing some…Continued

A Stepping Stone’s families are also in week 3 of the Raising A Reader program thanks to funding from Arizona’s First Things First and Southwest Human Development. Raising A Reader is a program that teaches parents the importance of early childhood literacy. For more information please visit Southwest Human Development’s site: https://www.swhd.org/  

A Stepping Stone’s families are in week 3 of the Kith and Kin project thanks to funding from Arizona’s First Things First and the Association for Supportive Child Care. The Kith and Kin Project works to improve the child care of low-income families. For more information visit their website here.

-By Andrea Reyes My job at the Florence Project has been absolutely wonderful, I can honestly say I love my job! I get to meet with kids who arrive to the U.S. as unaccompanied minors, meaning they arrived alone without a guardian. When these children are detained by immigration at/nearby the border, they are then…Continued

This year our class has become “Super Heroes” by focusing on ways to be good citizens. Each week a child is selected randomly to be our class “Super Hero”. They take a poster home to decorate with family photos then bring it back to school to share and display it in the classroom. We also…Continued

My Road to Becoming a Legal Advocate By: Andrea Reyes Out of everyone that I told, my family was the most supportive of my decision to apply to law school. But, who am I kidding? They knew my decision before I did and they sure were thrilled that I made my decision my last semester…Continued

Yesterday, I asked my 5-year old granddaughter if it was the best day of her life.  She said “I don’t know.  Is today your best day?”  “Yes”, I said, “and tomorrow will be even better”. She asked me how I knew that and I told her that I wake up every morning thinking the day…Continued