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.
By Kate Sanchez, SA2020 Intern As our city celebrates the AMAZING season finale for our Spurs, I can’t help but notice some parallels between their efforts this season, and another long, trying process that I’m seeing many friends go through:
By Jeanne Russell, SA2020 Chief of Strategy As someone wholly captivated by the power of cities to change lives, I also consume books that make that case – and especially enjoy the ones with data to back it up.
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 9 | Series Archive Last week the San Antonio Housing Authority celebrated the Grand Opening of a The Park at Sutton Oaks and the addition of a new community garden. Not only
Depending on our needs these days, the SA2020 team has been known to use the following modes of transportation in our fair city: bikes (shoutout B-Cycle!), public transportation (shoutout VIA), our trusty steeds (also known as cars), taxis (‘cause who
By Samson Patton Too many of my students aren’t aware of the awesome summer opportunities available across our community, and Teach For America – San Antonio saw an opportunity to change this. Through the first-annual Spring into Summer Fair, we
By Tony Leverett, Director, Eastside Promise Neighborhood Often we hear “What Can Brown Do for you?” Well, this time it was to build a community garden on the Eastside of San Antonio. This past Saturday over 25 volunteers from UPS Inside Sales
By Jeanne Russell, SA2020 Chief Strategist “To the Chief of Strategery: I appreciate your fancy titles over there at 2020, and I want to be helpful. So please give me a clue as to what “Collective-Impact-Director” means.” So began
By Jessica Rios, Health and Fitness Partnership Manager for SA2020 There is a story unfolding in our community right now that involves some praise-worthy community collaboration, and the hopes and dreams of local teens. Sounds pretty awesome, right? The
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) With over five miles of paved and unpaved trails and a hilltop view of downtown San Antonio off to its south,Eisenhower Park, located on 19399 NW Military Highway, should be
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 8 | Series Archive In this month’s blog I want to share some information about the Action Network working on the SA2020 goals for parks and green spaces in San Antonio. Action
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