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A huge thank you to at&t who has provided funding to help with our Stepping Into College event and other dropout prevention activities.  Stepping Into College takes place this Saturday at Burton Barr Library (see Media Advisory below): A Stepping Stone Foundation and AT&T to Host Workshop to Help Students “Step Into College”    AT&T to…Continued

International Literacy Day will be celebrated Monday, September 9th.  This special day focuses attention on worldwide literacy needs. According to the International Reading Association, more than 774 million of the world’s adults (nearly two-thirds of whom are women) do not know how to read or write, and roughly 123 million children lack those same skills, and are…Continued

READ ON Arizona is a state-wide movement whose mission is to create an effective continuum of services to improve language and literacy outcomes for Arizona’s children from birth through age eight over the next ten years, including helping to create an early literacy system that delivers the right program at the right time for every child.  Over…Continued

2013 brings changes to A Stepping Stone.  In this post, I’d like to say goodbye to Lead Teacher Fran Smith and Assistant Teacher, Veronica Dozal. In photo to the LEFT: Saying Goodbye. Two of our best move on to new things. Pictured from left top; Veronica Dozal, Fran Smith with Past President, Bev Carroll. Lead…Continued

“Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, ‘We kept charity overhead low.’ We want it to read that we changed the world.” Dan Pallotta (see Ted Talk) I was lucky enough to hear Dan Pallotta speak in person  several months ago (Thank you Virginia G. Piper Charitble Trust). I listened to his thesis incorporating…Continued

Director’s Fund Phoenix IDA-City of Phoenix Agency award check presentation,  Feb 20th. Left to Right, Sal Rivera of Rivera and Rivera Law Practice; Bianca Ortega, former Stepping Stone preschooler; Cindy Gattorna, Stepping Stone Executive Director; and IDA-City of Phoenix Executive Director, Juan Salgado.

We very much hope you all were able to catch Sunday’s Secret Millionaire episode (8/11/13). Mr. Jay, of course, made good on his word and donated $50,000 to A Stepping Stone Foundation a few short weeks after taping the episode was complete. Many of the extra wonderful things that Mr. Jay did for/with us included an SUV…Continued

August 8, 2013 Local non-profit gets in on the “Secret” A Stepping Stone Foundation featured on Aug. 11 episode of ABC’s Secret Millionaire PHOENIX, ARIZ. – When A Stepping Stone Foundation Executive Director Cynthia Gattorna received a mysterious e-mail from a ‘documentary producer’ interested in her Phoenix grassroots non-profit, she admits that she almost instinctively hit…Continued

We very much hope you all were able to catch Sunday’s Secret Millionaire episode (8/11/13).  Mr. Jay, of course, made good on his word and donated $50,000 to A Stepping Stone Foundation a few short weeks after taping the episode was complete.  Many of the extra wonderful things that Mr. Jay did for/with us included an SUV…Continued