On this blog, we share the stories of people all over San Antonio who are leading change. Read about the individuals, organizations, and collaborations that are moving us closer to the shared Community Vision.
Effective communication between citizens and civic leaders is vital to solving our City’s problems and building a bright future. Our representatives’ job is to carry out the will of San Antonio citizens; however, it is a daunting task for a
Last Thursday, a whole year’s worth of my work and research culminated into what I called a Civic Engagement Symposium. The symposium served as my final product for a course called Independent Study Mentorship, or ISM. The program
Located throughout San Antonio, from Mission Espada to the Witte Museum, these grey bikes are available for anyone in the community to use. Our city has seen an impact since their arrival in 2011, and we’ll get to
Voter turnout across the country is at an all-time low, and turnout in San Antonio is among the lowest. The Voting App wants to fix that. ThinkVoting, a company out of Austin, has created a mobile app that puts all of the
On March 29th, SA2020 teamed up with the Mayor’s Fitness Council (MFC) at Síclovía powered by the YMCA to host a Reclovía to highlight the importance of building community connections to help us reach our SA2020 goals like Health
Every great city has a great book festival. After only two years, the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is making a name for our city-on-the-rise, attracting authors with national acclaim and earning a reputation among city dwellers as a rich,
HSSUS’s 8th Health for Humanity Yogathon in partnership with SA2020 / San Antonio Mayor’s Fitness Council – Surya Namaskar Yajna 2015 was launched on January 17th here in San Antonio. This event was endorsed by SA2020 as #CertifiedAwesome – an event
If you don’t know the one week in San Antonio where we get to celebrate our city and its college-bound reputation, then we have the scoop for you! Destination College is a week of free events to celebrate our city as
On February 15th, 2015, EnrollSA/Get Bexar Covered wrapped up its second successful year of increasing healthcare coverage in San Antonio. Let’s hit you with the numbers: This year, a total of 110,805 people enrolled in a health insurance plan in
It’s a hard but true fact: the more educated the population, the more economically prosperous a community. It is projected that, of the 30 highest growing occupations across the country, more than half will require above a high school degree.
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