FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 26, 2014         A Stepping Stone’s Literacy Program Earns Support of The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation         Valley’s Most Vulnerable Parents Commit to Bettering Themselves For The Sake Of Their Children   PHOENIX, AZ (June 12, 2014) – More than 42 million Americans can’t read. In an effort to combat multi-generational…Continued

I love Neil deGrasse Tyson.  If you take the time to watch this video link all the way through, you might too.  How do we get kids interested in science?  To watch just click here.

Please read with your young children.  And by read I mean share a book even if you’re just looking at pictures and talking about them.  Don’t worry about interruptions or attention span.  Just snuggle once a day and hold a book you both love together!   Along that line, check out this article on NPR webpage this morning called Never Too…Continued

I was blessed by the Tooth Fairy last Tuesday.   It was time for a program visit and Teacher Janet and Program Coordinator Paulette had also alerted me that one of our former preschoolers, Blanca Pereda, CDA, was going to do a short dental presentation for our kids and then give each child a quick tooth cleaning and I really…Continued

I received the following from Susana Ibarra-Johnson, Parent Awareness and Community Outreach Coordinator for Central Phoenix Regional Partnership of First Things First: Best Gift for Kids Under 6? Simple Toys, Quality Time with Adults What are the top choices for holiday gifts that will fire up young kids’ minds? So many parents have spent too…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

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