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 Lyndsey Johnson, SA2020 Resolutions Walker Leader (follow her here!) It’s a tough price to pay for someone who is terrified of flying, but going to Europe for the first time with my wonderful “just married” husband was worth
By Ariana Stone In my first year as a 7th grade teacher, I learned a lot about the value of creative expression in the lives of the young people at my school. My fellow teacher, and Teach For America –
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 7 | Series Archive The EastPoint Neighborhood On March 4, 2014, Mayor Castro unveiled the EastPoint neighborhood: a four square mile area located on the Eastside of San Antonio that geographically encapsulates
By Jessica Rios, Health and Fitness Partnership Manager for SA2020 Prior to getting married, my husband did not have health insurance, and did not see the importance for it. He’s a healthy, young guy who eats right and watches
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) We live in a “City on the Rise” so it makes sense that our annual San Antonio Book Festival (which is free and open to the public!) will draw over 90 acclaimed national
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Located on the northwest side of San Antonio, off of Bandera Road, O.P. Schnabel Park lies on just 200 acres, but it has just as much to offer as some of San
By Lyndsey Johnson, SA2020 Resolutions Walker Leader (follow her here!) My bridal photos were last weekend, my wedding is in 2 and a half weeks, and what am I doing? Catching up on Game of Thrones and eating Totinos pizza
By Mary Bily Westfall, Physical Education teacher at Bonham Academy I knew from the time I started playing sports at Runge High School that I wanted to be a coach. I participated in basketball, volleyball, track, tennis and golf! Entering into college,
By Trevor Chauvin “Obamacare is a scam! The site is faulty, and impossible to figure out and navigate! Even Obama couldn’t register his family on the crappy site….” These are all things I’ve heard about The Affordable Care Act (aka.
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 6 | Series Archive When looking through the SA2020 indicators, you might have noticed something in the Neighborhoods cause area. There is a relatively new indicator: “Improve Housing and Transportation Index”.
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