Research & Reports

We offer local expertise on our community's issues and the programs addressing these needs.

Learn about key issues that our community faces and how local organizations are working to address these problems.

Through our research efforts, we seek to increase public awareness of the challenges facing our community. We invite you to read and share our research papers. Each paper describes an issue that affects our community, identifies local resources working to address the problem and includes additional resources for more information.

Animal Services

• Becoming a No-Kill Community: The Importance of Spay/Neuter [PDF 389KB]
• Becoming a No Kill Community: San Antonio Reaches a "Tipping Point" [PDF 405KB]

Arts and Culture

• SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow - Creativity, Community and Cognitive Development: Potential Benefits of the Pre-K4 SA Arts Education Resource Guide  [PDF 115KB]
• School Arts Education and Developing Audiences for the Future [PDF211KB]

Community Safety

• Child Maltreatment: Its Consequences, Risk Factors and Prevention Programs [PDF 89KB]

Downtown Development

• SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow - Downtown San Antonio and Arts and Culture: The Potential for Improving Quality of Life in Our Community [PDF 85KB]

Economic Competitiveness

• SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow - From High School Student to Employee: A Proposal for A Citywide Internship Program in San Antonio [PDF 75KB]

Environmental Sustainability

• The Urban Forest [PDF 93KB]

Education and High School Completion

• Addressing Summer Learning Loss through Summer Learning Programs  [PDF 93KB]
• Involving Families in Out-of-School Time Programs  [PDF 219KB]
• The Impact of Dropping Out on the Individual, the Nation and the State  [PDF 266KB]
• The Importance of Middle School in High School Completion [PDF 264KB]
• The Student Loan Debt Burden [PDF 94KB]
• Middle School Students and Out-of-School Time: Barriers to Participation and Strategies for Recruitment and Retention [PDF 125KB]
• What is Out-of-School Time? [PDF 217KB]

Family Well-Being

• Teen Pregnancy: Its Effects and Interventions Efforts [PDF 212KB]

Government Accountability and Civic Engagement

• Engaging the Public at the Local Level to Strengthen Civic Engagement [PDF 108KB]

Health and Fitness

• The Adult Obesity Epidemic: Its Impact and Intervention Efforts [PDF 214KB]

Neighborhoods and Growth Management

• SA2020 Trinity Mellon Fellow - Collective Impact: Strengthening Collaboration Between the Wheatley Choice Neighborhood, Eastside Promise Neighborhood and SA2020 Initiatives [PDF 62KB]

Transportation

• Walkable Neighborhoods and Walkability in San Antonio [PDF 87KB]

With the support of Trinity University and the Mellon Foundation, Mellon Fellows served as interns at SA2020 Cause Area Lead Partner agencies in summer 2013. As part of the experience, Mellon Fellows wrote papers to document a collaborative effort related to a Cause Area. Thank you to SA2020, Trinity University and the Mellon Fellows for allowing us to share your papers with our community.