Posts in ‘2012’

Dec 27

Rally Update

Today we couldn’t believe our eyes as we looked at our Rally page- $16,275 out of our original $14,000 goal. We wanted Rally and this giving season, in general, to honor donors and to be run by you completely and that is really what is happening. So, in these last days of December, our final holiday [...]

Dec 24

Puente Staff Wish You Happy Holidays

  The holidays are often called the season of giving (and of much email!) Today we wanted to send along special message from all of us at Puente as a small token of our appreciation for all you have done in the past months and beyond. Please know that today and every day our hearts are [...]

Dec 13

16 and legal: work permit changes Fernando’s life

The day that Fernando Macias-Morales received his work permit from the U.S. government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was the day his life changed. Just ask his mother, Yanet. “I couldn’t believe it. He was crying. I was crying,” she recalls. Last summer, Puente undertook a major outreach effort to young people who could [...]