The month of September is recognized nationally as Attendance Awareness Month. This is the time to capture the excitement of returning to school and use it to encourage kids to come to school and stay in school. Some children will
Last Friday, we met up with our friends from the United Way’s Emerging Leaders Council at Compadre y Compadre’s new home at the old SAISD Steele Elementary School where hundreds of boxes awaited us. Inside were thousands of backpacks donated
Just over a month ago, the New York Times published an article called “The Families That Can’t Afford Summer”. They explain that while “most kids lose math skills over the summer, low income children also lose, on average, more than
Across social media, many have shared the photos of two students taking VIA to their graduation. We managed to snag this one from Councilman Rey Saldaña’s Facebook page. (Thanks for making a collage, Councilman!) KENS5 even did a follow-up story on
If FIESTA is San Antonio’s party to celebrate the city’s history and rich diversity, then the San Antonio Book Festival is the tailgate event. Celebrating ideas, books, libraries, and literary culture, the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is your chance
In the spirit of International Women’s Day, the San Antonio non-profit Women’s Global Connection (WGC) put on the half-day Girls Global Summit recently to empower and build up area girls and young women. A diverse group of over 200 girls,
For the 5th year running, teenagers from all over the city united at Brandeis High School on Saturday, Feb. 27, to meet their favorite authors at Northside ISD’s author festival, LibraryPalooza: That Author Thing! LibraryPalooza began as a way to
“The data is important. But remember, the data represent people.” That’s how Lumina Foundation opened a session during the Community Partnerships for Attainment conference. I was in St. Louis with some pals from local organizations, ISDs, and the City. In
As the saying goes, I was a fresh-eyed, bushy tailed college grad looking to make a difference when I first moved to San Antonio. Moving over 1,700 miles from my home in Pennsylvania back in 2002, I had no idea
This summer, students from the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) at San Antonio won their third consecutive Ambassador Great Debate championship. Ramiro Rodríguez, a member of the team, shares his experience–in both Spanish and English. Una enorme experiencia que recordare por el
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