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SA2020 | November, 2013 | SA2020

November 2013

From Dropping Out to Skipping Up

Brandon Martinez hated school. At 16, he found himself in eighth grade, years behind his peers, overwhelmed by the volume of work required to catch up. He considered dropping out.

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Fasting for a cause

Every year around this time, the folks at Inner City Development hold Thanksgiving 365, an event in which volunteers commit to eat nothing but bread and water in order to fund the nonprofit group’s emergency food pantry.

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The Fast and the Furious(ly Fasting)

By Darryl Byrd, President and CEO of SA2020 Today, I should be starving. I’ve chosen to fast until I can raise $1,000 for the Inner City Development’s Emergency Food Pantry, which serves families on the West Side of San Antonio.

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Walkability: What is it good for?

By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Neighborhoods Liaison at SAHA  Post 2 | Series Archive     As I’ve been working downtown at the San Antonio Housing Authority and interning at First Presbyterian Church, I’ve gotten to take the opportunity to walk to lunch,

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