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.
San Antonio’s grassroots, nonprofit, health care and government leaders are combining efforts to educate the more than 212,000 uninsured people in Bexar County about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the benefits of health care coverage. “EnrollSA” is a coalition
By Denise Barkhurst, SA2020 Resolutions Book Drive Leader along with her Little Brother and Little Sister and two daughters. Follow them here! (Reposted with permission from Joyful Rant) Books make me happy! This is one reason why I have
By David Nungaray We marched along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. As I walked with my friends from Teach For America I felt an incredible energy from seeing thousands of people in our city continue the tradition that celebrates Dr.
The year was 2002 and, at the time, I was going through my most challenging hardship as a high school student-athlete. My team had just been eliminated from the state playoffs in football and our season was over. Not only had our season ended, but also the hard work I had put in with my teammates over the course of our high school career had abruptly ended. This loss happened during my senior year, so there would not be an opportunity to avenge this loss.
Most people are unaware that there has been a startling change in the amount of vehicular travel in cities throughout the world. As in previous U.S. downturns,
Parks are more than just pretty green natural spaces. They serve many purposes beyond what we often see when we play or enjoy a nice picnic in them!
By Jeanne Russell, SA2020 Chief Strategist It’s been a whiplash-inducing year for me personally, leaving Mayor Castro’s office after the passage of Pre-K 4 SA to join SA2020, a fledgling nonprofit with about 6 years to help our city
It’s been quite a year, folks! As excited as we are for 2014 (we’ve got some epic plans…), we also can’t help but reminisce on all the amazing, awesome things that happened in 2013. Our city got fitter, our staff
By Chris Weigand, President of Big Red Dog San Antonio Here at BIG RED DOG Engineering, we’re huge fans of SA2020. Downtown Development is our passion, and we are never disappointed when another reason to renovate, revitalize, and rejuvenate comes
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA Post 3 | Series Archive Over the past month I had the opportunity to sit down with two women who are working within the Choice neighborhood grant to make the eastside a
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