The City of San Antonio continues to use and update its visioning plan, SA2020. The city is making progress on school graduation rates, per capita income, health care access, and teen birth rates.

Stockton’s efforts to build a culture of engagement have resulted in community-based programs and systems that are healing decades of trauma for individuals and communities, empowering students who have been historically marginalized and providing new pathways to higher education.

Communities across the country are creating innovative youth employment programs to help tackle issues like income inequality.

You know, it’s strange. I’ve been working in the community development field for almost ten years and yet, I’m not actuallysure when I first became aware of local government. I remember calling the Mayor’s office in fourth grade to advocate for a snow day (ironically, I was told that the city did not determine such…

2017 Community Partnership Award Program Nominee

It can be argued that few careers offer the range of opportunities and can directly touch as many lives as those within local government. Local government leaders make decisions each day across a range of diverse issues that have both immediate and long-term impacts for individuals, communities and even regions. With the impending retirement of…

Council-manager communities dominate awards, which recognize civic engagement strategies that help low-income children. Fifteen communities or community partners from across the United States were honored on June 16 with the 2017 All-America City Award (AAC) for their civic engagement efforts designed to help young children from low-income families achieve grade-level reading proficiency and early school success.…

A city that is friendly to children is a city that is friendly to all.

Congratulations! You’ve made it through another school year. Take a deep breath and relax. Then kick back and enjoy that three-month vacation. Just kidding! I know that much of a teacher’s summer is filled with new curriculum to learn, new assessments and programs, new lessons, professional development and planning.  When it’s time to focus on…