The mission of SA2020 is to catalyze the entire San Antonio community into passionate, focused, and sustained action to achieve the shared goals that will transform San Antonio into a world-class city by the year 2020 in eleven key vision areas.
Since the COVID-19 crisis hit the local community, “equity” is everywhere. Dozens of education leaders have signed a pledge for equitable recovery, San Antonio’s community foundation reinforced its commitments to equitable grantmaking, and the City of San Antonio’s COVID-19 Community
In order to partner effectively—in “normal times” and especially in crisis—organizations must know the breadth of their own impact. This guide supports multi-sector organizations—for-profit businesses, nonprofits, funders, public institutions, educational institutions, faith-based organizations, member/trade agencies—in assessing their impact on San
Eight years ago, nearly a year and a half after its public visioning launch, SA2020 shifted from the name of the Community Vision for San Antonio to the full-time brand of the organization responsible for driving progress toward the Community
In 2010, San Antonio embarked on a Community Visioning process. Spearheaded by former mayor Julián Castro and a committee of 26 community members, nearly 6,000 San Antonians agreed on what they wanted the city to look and feel like in
In the midst of a global pandemic, where uncertainty seems to be the place we occupy most, being the organization that drives progress toward a shared vision for the future is weird. There. We said it. But as our society
By revealing where information at the community level may be masking disparate outcomes, disaggregated data gives multi-sector organizations the opportunity to understand the different histories, challenges, and needs of San Antonians, and thereby create responsive policies, budgets, and programs. Disaggregated
In the past month, public and private sector institutions have shown their ability to quickly meet the needs of San Antonians. The San Antonio Housing Authority suspended evictions of all public housing, CPS and SAWS ended service disconnections, and schools
This past Monday morning, our tiny but mighty SA2020 team had our first meeting since we started seeing the exponential spread of COVID-19. Even though we’ve always had a work from home policy, we’ve never needed to do so all at once, so to the Google Hangout we went.
COVID-19 has created a good deal of stress and uncertainty in our community (and all communities), to be sure. At the same time, it’s also an opportunity to take care of our neighbors—which is perfect in a city that outlined
2020 is a big year for our community: we’re reaffirming and strengthening San Antonio’s Community Vision, completing the U.S. Census, and voting in elections that will have major implications for our future. First up: the primaries! We want you to
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