By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Park #10 in our family’s #SA2020Resolutions quest to visit 20 parks in 2014, is Elmendorf Lake Park. It hasn’t escaped my attention that, in blog posts anyway, we are halfway to our
By Lyndsey Johnson, SA2020 Resolutions Walker Leader (follow her here!) Hello blogosphere. It’s been a while. Don’t worry. It’s not you. It’s me. Sooo much has happened that it’s difficult to find where to begin. 1) The San Antonio
By Patti Radle, SA2020 Board Member and 2014 Resolutions Leader (follow her here!) When I was asked back in February what I thought would be the biggest challenge or the main excuse people would offer when asked to give up
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Having to pick your favorite park in San Antonio would be like having to pick your favorite child – it can’t be done. Each child (park?) has special qualities that come
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) Y’all. I’m way behind on sharing my family’s #SA2020 Resolutions park adventures with you. Today I realized it’s been FOUR months since I last posted about a park. We’re still visiting parks. I
By Patti Radle, SA2020 Board Member and 2014 Resolutions Leader (follow her here!) Update on my SA2020 Resolution to get people to stop using bottled water–I have another commitment! To recap, so far I’ve received commitments from Dr. Perez, Superintendent of
By Patti Radle, SA2020 Board Member and 2014 Resolutions Leader (follow her here!) A couple of more stories on people who have made a commitment to stop using bottled water—the single-use kind—for the rest of 2014. As I mentioned in
By Lyndsey Johnson, SA2020 Resolutions Walker Leader (follow her here!) Ok, so before I get more into this blog writing thing, there are a few things you should know about me. 1) I was not born in Texas. *GASP “Say
It’s been over 6 months since our city sat down and made some serious resolutions to contribute to SA2020 goals. Research says that it takes at least 90 days to form a habit. Many of the SA2020 Resolutions, like giving
By Patti Radle, SA2020 Board Member and 2014 Resolutions Leader (follow her here!) My resolution for SA2020 for 2014 was to get 20 people to commit to not using those single use water bottles for at least the rest of
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