The Big Give, San Antonio’s 24-hour campaign of online giving, is here. Now in its tenth year, this annual event showcases the impact of individual giving—folks throughout our community (and beyond) donating to the organizations and causes they care about
When the COVID-19 crisis reached San Antonio in early 2020, local nonprofits leapt into action. Organizations immediately shifted services—or began offering new ones—to meet new and changing community need. From telehealth to digital access to food distribution, nonprofits have played
SA2020 Partners are organizations that have committed to actively align their work to San Antonio’s shared Community Vision. We’re proud to welcome 15 new Nonprofit Partners who are leading important work and meeting community need. Read about these organizations below—and
School’s out—and we know that brings a lot of days to fill. Fortunately, a number of SA2020 Partners are hosting summer camps (and more) to offer opportunities for learning, exploring, and creating. Read more about them—and find out how to
SAY Sí—an SA2020 Nonprofit Partner that provides after-school arts programs to middle- and high-schoolers—knows that students who consistently arrive to their building to participate in programming succeed in the classroom, and beyond. Over the last 17 years, their numbers prove it: 100% percent of high school seniors in SAY Sí graduate from high school, and 98% get accepted into college. This, in Bexar
History has shown us what’s possible when people come together with a desire to make things better. In San Antonio, just in the past 10 years, it has led to a shared vision that demands institutions be accountable to the
In 2010, nearly 6,000 people came together to envision a stronger San Antonio where students are provided a quality education no matter where they live and San Antonians are deeply engaged in selfless service to the community. Soon after, in
Happy Earth Day, San Antonio! Today we’re feeling (extra) appreciative of our beautiful environment—and for the local organizations that are committed to protecting it. These nonprofits celebrate our natural resources, advocate for sustainability policies, and offer all of us opportunities
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.
Since moving to San Antonio, I’ve learned a lot about the glue that holds this city together. “Where did you go to high school,” devotion to H-E-B, explaining exactly how Austin’s breakfast tacos are worse (basically inedible!) all come to mind, along with the shared Community Vision that SA2020 has held through the last ten years and now carries into a new decade.
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