COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
SA2020 Update
SUMMARY:
The purpose of this briefing is to provide the City Council with an update and overview of SA2020's work in driving progress toward a shared vision of a thriving San Antonio through 2020 and beyond.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
In late 2010, nearly 6,000 San Antonians, through public meetings, created a shared vision for the community with goals through the year 2020. San Antonio's Community Vision is made up of eleven Community Results: Arts & Culture, Civic Engagement, Community Safety, Downtown Development, Economic Competitiveness, Education, Environmental Sustainability, Family Well-Being, Health & Fitness, Neighborhoods, and Transportation. In order to guide the decade-long strategic vision into action, SA2020, an independent, nonprofit organization, was formed in 2012.
SA2020 drives progress toward San Antonio's Community Vision by:
1. Reporting on San Antonio's progress. We track and analyze 62 community indicators prioritized by the community at large. We disaggregate nearly three-quarters of these indicators by race, gender, and place in order to tell a more complete story of San Antonio's progress and identify opportunities for targeted programs, policies, or interventions.
2. Engaging and activating the community at large through storytelling, data visualization, resource sharing, and public events.
3. Aligning multi-sector organizations toward the shared vision through capacity building, annual surveys, program evaluation, and organizational support.
Through the year 2020, SA2020 will lead a community engagement process to reaffirm and strengthen San Antonio's Community Vision, leveraging the reach of SA2020's Partners and the expertise and influence of nearly 70 "SA2020 Ambassadors." The purpose of the yearlong community engagement process is multifold:
1. Increase the number of San Antonians, representative of the City demographics by race, gender, age, and geograph...
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