A Stepping Stone Foundation is proud to announce the 2023 Billie Gannaway Memorial Scholarship award recipients, including awards for the William O. Smith Memorial Awards, the Ivey Stepping Higher Scholars, and the APS STEM Scholarship Awards. In 2023, A Stepping Stone Foundation will award over $44,000 in scholarship awards and since 2001, the Billie…Continued

A Life of Literacy Passion and Achievement – Maritza’s Story In celebration of International Women’s Day, we want to share the story of Maritza – one of our first preschoolers in our LEAF program, one of our first Billie Gannaway Scholarship award winners and a proud parent of 3! Maritza’s father immigrated from Mexico more…Continued

Each year, we invite former preschoolers who were in one of our Stepping Stone-funded LEAF programs for six months or more to apply for the Billie Gannaway Memorial Scholarship.  Over the years, two additional scholarship offerings have been added; Ivey Stepping Higher and the William O. Smith awards. $44,300 is the total of all 2021…Continued

Please welcome the newest A Stepping Stone Foundation scholars! Each year, we invite former preschoolers who were in one of our Stepping Stone-funded LEAF programs for six months or more to apply for the Billie Gannaway Memorial Scholarship.  Over the years, two additional scholarship offerings have been added; Ivey Stepping Higher and the William O.…Continued

COVID19 has taken a dramatic toll on our lives.  I hope we always remember the almost half million people who have already succumbed to its effects and all the families who have been touched by that loss of life.  Just as important to those of us remaining behind them, are the secondary effects: the heroic…Continued

Hello my name is Neida Sandoval. I am one of six of my family members that has attended A Stepping Stone preschool. This program has helped me and my family in many ways. It has helped me further my education and through the years I have met several people that to this day are close…Continued

My name is Kimberly Fernandez and I am a former Stepping Stone preschooler. Although it was a long time ago, I remember being in Mrs. Cindy’s class (Cindy Amos). I really enjoyed all the fun activities we use to do such as painting, drawing, singing, playing, dancing and even sleeping! Those were fun memories in…Continued

I would like to welcome all our new and returning families to A Stepping Stone Foundation’s 26th program year for preschool with family literacy! This year we once again have preschool classrooms with all the family literacy obligations that go with it (home visiting, adult education, parenting classes and child-and-parent-time-together) in collaboration with Alhambra Elementary…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

On Tuesday, April 21st, eighty guests gathered to celebrate the latest group of Billie Gannaway Memorial Scholarship (BGMS) award recipients. This year, the BGMS Team awarded 29 scholarships.  Also, thanks to the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust (NMPCT), five additional scholarships were awarded concurrently to five of those students.  These five awards are called the…Continued