Lisa Ayres grew up in San Antonio and attended local Catholic Schools then the University of Texas -San Antonio and received her degree in Communications/Public Relations. She has been working in the Non-Profit sector since receiving her degree in 1998. She first worked for KLRN-TV/PBS managing their on-air fundraiser “Blazing Gavels”. She then moved to Pennsylvania to work for WVIA-TV PBS/NPR managing their on-air fundraising and events. While at both stations, she received national awards for her on-air events. After 5 years in Pennsylvania and what seems liked 20 cold winters, her family decided to move back to San Antonio and she began working for the American Cancer Society focusing on fundraising and community engagement. She has been with the American Cancer Society for 10 years.
We have heard a lot about cancer in recent days, as beloved artist like David Bowie, Lenny from Moterhead and Alan Rickman of Harry Potter and Die Hard fame have passed after their battles with cancer. In his State of
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