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.
The SA2020 Team is growing! Gladys Hernández joins us as the Director of Community Impact after time spent as an educator and an executive director. Find out more about Gladys below, including why we may need to host an SA2020
In February 2019, SA2020 and KLRN partnered on a podcast to bring more complete stories of the San Antonians working to achieve shared goals. The Story Goes… celebrated our community’s collective successes, highlighted our shared challenges, and inspired listeners to
For the past year, every evening, we have downloaded the daily data on the COVID-19 crisis from the City of San Antonio’s Metro Health Department. We know, for example, when reporting shifted from whole numbers to percentages and back again
Today is International Women’s Day, a chance to challenge ourselves to forge a more gender-equal world, celebrate women’s achievement, and raise awareness against bias. When we, collectively, make our own community more equitable, we move the needle on our shared goals for all of San Antonio.
Our community has prioritized the lifelong physical and mental well-being of the people who live here. During The Collective, I was privileged to lead a virtual Zoom-ba session celebrating physical activity as an important piece of our wellness. I cleared
In honor of Mary Kate’s Birthday Buy a ticket to Movies by Moonlight in the Garden at San Antonio Botanical Garden.Visit Southbound Coffee – snag a coffee and donate menstrual products for the San Antonio chapter of Periods United.Get takeout at a Black-owned
More and more, I sign off emails, calls, texts, meetings, and conversations with “take care.” As my power grows with the title of President & CEO at SA2020, in the middle of a pandemic and on the heels of a devastating
In order for a democracy to function properly and foster constructive debate to move our society forward to resolve challenges, operating on the same set of facts is vital. What the founders of the United States wouldn’t be able to
updated Tuesday, February 23 at 2:20pm Last week, San Antonio, Bexar County, and the state of Texas faced freezing temperatures and utility outages. We know that this crisis, much like COVID-19, is affecting community members differently due to long-standing inequities.
The last ten years have proven that driving progress toward a shared Community Vision requires targeted, race-conscious investments informed by San Antonians most impacted by systemic inequities. The following bold efforts have driven real progress toward the goals we set
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