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.
It’s time to vote—again! In May, San Antonians went to the polls to cast their votes for Mayor, City Council representatives, and some School Board members. Because no candidate in the races for Mayor, City Council Districts 2, 4, and
As futuristic movies and TV have shown us, it’s hard to predict exactly what the future will hold. (Where are our flying cars?) And when it comes to the future of a community and the people in it, there are a whole lot of factors to consider: federal or state policy changes, the automation of jobs, natural disasters, new technology, and more.
“What happens in 2020?” It’s our most frequently asked question. Though our community set goals for the year 2020, we all know that the work won’t end when the new decade begins. Next year, we’ll go back out to the
Happy Earth Day, San Antonio! We’re lucky to live in a city filled with and surrounded by so much much natural beauty—and to have so many people and organizations protecting it. Today especially, we hope you’ll consider how your actions might affect our entire community. Are you driving when you could be walking or cycling (and enjoying our beautiful Spring weather)? Relying on too many single-use coffee cups after late Spurs games? Creating a little too much trash at Fiesta celebrations?
Say hello to the 9 new SA2020 Nonprofit Partners! These organizations are all working toward our shared community vision—across 9 of our Cause Areas. They join 126 existing SA2020 Nonprofit Partners for a total of 135 nonprofit organizations aligning their efforts toward the
On Saturday, May 4th, we’ll head to the polls to vote for Mayor and City Council representatives. (Many voters will also elect school board members, and lots of municipalities outside of San Antonio city limits will vote on their own
Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate girls and women and recommit to building a more gender-balanced world. When we make our own community more equitable, we know we’ll move the needle on our shared goals for all of San Antonio.
We’re so excited to launch our new collaborative podcast with KLRN, The Story Goes! In each episode, you’ll get to know an individual or organization quietly (or loudly) disrupting our community and helping to change San Antonio’s story. In our
“Housing is not an individual challenge but a community issue that requires the attention of our local government,” Lourdes Castro Ramírez explains.
In Maranda Hernandez’s work to end child abuse as a community health worker, she asks parents about their own childhood experiences. “With a lot of my families, we went back to ‘well, how were things for you when you were
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