Colleen is a life-long learner and lover of marketing, social media, and blogging (and laughing!). She started her company, Social Media Mentoring, in 2008 and has helped businesses (including The Westin La Cantera Resort and the San Antonio Children’s Museum) create social media strategies to capture the attention and revenue of their target markets. She's also a mama; a foodie who doesn’t know how to cook; a supporter of non-profits; and a Parrothead. She started her first personal blog in 2005. SanAntonioMomBlogs.com celebrates and supports San Antonio mom bloggers. It’s also where she shares her views on life and parenting in the Alamo City.
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Only a mother’s abiding love could produce a park this beautiful. In the middle of downtown San Antonio, if you know just where to look, you’ll find small, tranquil, lushly
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Having to pick your favorite park in San Antonio would be like having to pick your favorite child – it can’t be done. Each child (park?) has special qualities that come
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Y’all. I’m way behind on sharing my family’s #SA2020 Resolutions park adventures with you. Today I realized it’s been FOUR months since I last posted about a park. We’re still visiting parks. I
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) With over five miles of paved and unpaved trails and a hilltop view of downtown San Antonio off to its south,Eisenhower Park, located on 19399 NW Military Highway, should be
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) We live in a “City on the Rise” so it makes sense that our annual San Antonio Book Festival (which is free and open to the public!) will draw over 90 acclaimed national
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Located on the northwest side of San Antonio, off of Bandera Road, O.P. Schnabel Park lies on just 200 acres, but it has just as much to offer as some of San
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Sometimes, visiting a park more than once is the only way to discover everything it has to offer. This is the case with Walker Ranch Park, located off of
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) With over 185 parks and greenways in San Antonio, it’s tough to decide which park to visit next. As we work toward our goal of visiting 20 parks in 2014, our
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) The first park of twenty we visited this year as part of our #SA2020Resolutions was McAllister Park. But it’s not a stretch for us to go there. It’s practically across the street so
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020