People are often encouraged to “think outside the box” when they want to stimulate creative thinking. A group of San Antonians took that a step further on today, Sept. 27, by thinking outside the parking spot at the city’s first
Although she gets nervous pedaling in traffic and wishes the city had more bike lanes, Janet Clifford swears she is going “to bicycle more around town.”
Imagine you are 8 years old, riding a yellow school bus on a third-grade field trip.
Diplomás Project is celebrating its one-year anniversary today with a two-day conference at cafécollege aimed at increasing the number of Latino college graduates in San Antonio.
When people are asked to list the nation’s top college towns, they spout off locations like Austin or Boston, College Station, Berkeley, Calif., or State College, Pa.
With a handful of U.S. cities, including Detroit, in bankruptcy and others headed toward fiscal danger because of pension liabilities, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report Friday on seven “enterprising” cities, with San Antonio among them.
A local blogger and social media manager with a passion for justice, education, health, faith, and family. A local business owner who isn’t afraid to stand up for what she believes in and makes the city a little friendlier. A
By Lorenzo Gomez How do you tell your story or sell your idea in seven words or less? In the start-up world the ability to distill your idea into one sentence is an art that takes almost NBA-level practice at
By Brittany Sharnsky, SA2020 team member and Ambassador for Downtown Development Here’s the thing—Millennials get a bad rap, but they’re kind of my favorite people (and not just because I am one). Even though Millennials are chided for tweeting, facebooking
Today the San Antonio City Council will make a decision regarding the proposed Non Discrimination Ordinance. After setting aside the complexity of unwritten inferences, and cultural, religious, or environmental biases on both sides of this issue, I see something quite
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