On Wednesday, July 22nd, my school’s film team and I won 1st and 2nd place on two different categories in the 2015 Neighborhood Film Project at City Block Cinema. Two film classes from the San Antonio School for Inquiry and Creativity
My early memories of the political process started in elementary school. Michael Dukakis and George H. W. Bush were running for President. It was 1988, and I lived in a house divided. My mom and dad – the man who
You may have noticed there’s been a lot of political talk around town lately, so you probably know that we are in the midst of electing a new Mayor of San Antonio. You should also know that there’s a
On April 18, over 5,000 people joined Any Baby Can of San Antonio at Any Baby Can’s Fiesta at the AT&T Center. The Official Fiesta® San Antonio Event featured the 11th Annual Walk for Autism, live music, mariachi bands, food,
Effective communication between citizens and civic leaders is vital to solving our City’s problems and building a bright future. Our representatives’ job is to carry out the will of San Antonio citizens; however, it is a daunting task for a
Last Thursday, a whole year’s worth of my work and research culminated into what I called a Civic Engagement Symposium. The symposium served as my final product for a course called Independent Study Mentorship, or ISM. The program
Located throughout San Antonio, from Mission Espada to the Witte Museum, these grey bikes are available for anyone in the community to use. Our city has seen an impact since their arrival in 2011, and we’ll get to
Voter turnout across the country is at an all-time low, and turnout in San Antonio is among the lowest. The Voting App wants to fix that. ThinkVoting, a company out of Austin, has created a mobile app that puts all of the
On March 29th, SA2020 teamed up with the Mayor’s Fitness Council (MFC) at Síclovía powered by the YMCA to host a Reclovía to highlight the importance of building community connections to help us reach our SA2020 goals like Health
Every great city has a great book festival. After only two years, the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is making a name for our city-on-the-rise, attracting authors with national acclaim and earning a reputation among city dwellers as a rich,
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