Communities

Hosting child-friendly forensic interviews is just one of the ways the new Real County Community Initiative is providing space to help local families.

Frio River water flows from the chill of Blue Hole at Headwaters to the warmth of the Echo Valley waterfront and beyond. Our work also changes as it flows from Real County to San Antonio and beyond. But it’s always driven by our mission: to cultivate wholeness in people and institutions for the transformation of communities.

The H. E. Butt Family Foundation is the largest private employer in Leakey, Texas—a small town in Real County, Texas—just down Highway 83 from the Canyon and even closer to our hearts.

In 2017, the Foundation began testing and measuring three pilots in San Antonio—a mental health initiative, a capacity-building learning cohort, and a public storytelling effort. Each pilot is working to further the Foundation’s mission in three different but overlapping domains that benefit children and families.

Fiesta is a time-honored tradition in San Antonio, but what does it say about the city's inequality?

Federal grants might be at risk if HUD budget cuts are imposed, reducing the amount of money that's allotted for affordable housing and anti-poverty programs.