SA2020, the nonprofit long-range planning organization inspired by Mayor Julian Castro, is moving its operations to Geekdom, an innovation hub located in the Weston Centre.
By Katie Hoovler, SA2020 LEE Fellow Two years and a couple months ago, when I told people in Ohio that I was moving to San Antonio they usually responded one of two ways: 1) “Isn’t that where the Alamo is?”
By Hannah Monroe, SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow in Neighborhoods and Growth Management I’m going to confess something that you hopefully agree with: I think parks are wonderful! Yep. That’s it. Guess that’s not much of a secret. Although you might
By Nicole Goodman, Trinity Mellon Fellow in Downtown Development San Antonio is a special place. Sure, Austin’s got the music thing, and the Sixth Street thing, and the all-around “chill” thing. Young people love it and want to live there.
After releasing the first Progress Report in 2013, SA2020 convened over 200 nonprofit and civic leaders, along with content experts, to refine and revise our community indicators. SA2020 wanted to ensure that each indicator would be a meaningful gauge of
Want to help make San Antonio a better community overall? Here are some ways to help the SA2020 initiative improve our city.
By Moira Allen, SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow in Arts & Culture Hello there my fellow San Antonians, I’m pretty darn passionate about San Antonio and where it’s going, because it’s been my home since I was a wee(er) one. I
By Salome Wilfred, SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow in Health & Fitness The best advice I’ve ever received from someone was the importance of balance: balance with a healthy distribution of family, social activity, work and fitness activities. As a current
Darryl Byrd: There’s a real distinction to be drawn between how SA2020 was born and how many cities across the nation
If you haven’t heard already, San Antonio hosted its inaugural air quality forum this past week at the “Castle” headquarters of the
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