By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) With over 185 parks and greenways in San Antonio, it’s tough to decide which park to visit next. As we work toward our goal of visiting 20 parks in 2014, our
By Lyndsey Johnson, SA2020 Resolutions Walker Leader (follow her here!) Living in San Antonio is one of the best decisions that I’ve made, aside from saying yes to marry my future hubby (Dave). I started living in the Alamo City
By Colleen Pence, SA2020 Resolutions Outdoorsy Leader (follow her here!) The first park of twenty we visited this year as part of our #SA2020Resolutions was McAllister Park. But it’s not a stretch for us to go there. It’s practically across the street so
This is post 5 in a series. See them all here. Did you know that there is a long-term goal to encircle all of San Antonio in multi-use linear parks? Progress toward that vision is already underway in the construction
By Denise Barkhurst, SA2020 Resolutions Book Drive Leader along with her Little Brother and Little Sister and two daughters. Follow them here! (Reposted with permission from Joyful Rant) Books make me happy! This is one reason why I have
By David Nungaray We marched along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. As I walked with my friends from Teach For America I felt an incredible energy from seeing thousands of people in our city continue the tradition that celebrates Dr.
The year was 2002 and, at the time, I was going through my most challenging hardship as a high school student-athlete. My team had just been eliminated from the state playoffs in football and our season was over. Not only had our season ended, but also the hard work I had put in with my teammates over the course of our high school career had abruptly ended. This loss happened during my senior year, so there would not be an opportunity to avenge this loss.
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