Community Stories

Opportunities for Shopping Local this Holiday Season

The Saturday after Thanksgiving marks the start of the City of San Antonio’s Buy Local Season, coinciding with Small Business Saturday. These campaigns invite us to consider shifting some of our holiday shopping to local-independent businesses to support our entrepreneurs,

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Igniting Fire

When I found out my company was sponsoring SA2020’s The Board Game and was looking for individuals that were interested in learning more about board service, I immediately jumped at the opportunity. Over the years, I had been interested in

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Through The Board Game, We Matched 84 People with Nonprofit Partners to Help Reach the Shared Community Vision

SA2020’s 100+ Nonprofit Partners annually report 400-600 open seats on their Boards of Directors. At the same time, we regularly hear from San Antonians about their desire to make a greater impact in the community. In 2019, we launched The Board Game to bridge that gap, reimagine board service to advance racial equity, and ultimately help make local nonprofit boards more representative

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Carmen Tafolla reads her poem at a podium. In the background is an "SA2020" banner with colored icons representing the Cause Areas

“Do It”, A 2012 Poem by Carmen Tafolla

On May 19, 2012, SA2020 shifted from the name of a community visioning process to the name of our nonprofit that drives progress toward a shared Community Vision. That means that today marks nine years (!) since the launch that

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