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Webcast: Building Out of SA's Comfort Zone

Written by evrard on Feb 11, 2013

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Help build a living history of the East Side

Written by Andrew Delgado on Feb 07, 2013

We need your help!

NOWCastSA is partnering with the Eastside Promise Neighborhood initiative to collect oral histories about San Antonio's East Side.

That means we want YOU to tell us anything and everything you can remember about your community!

American Civil Liberties Union resolution for Richard Alvarado

Written by ACLU of Texas on Feb 01, 2013

Resolved,

That the American Civil Liberties Union mourns the loss, and celebrates the life, of its
board member, devoted civil libertarian Richard Alvarado.

In 2003, the ACLU of Texas board held a strategic planning retreat. Based upon recommendations from his lifetime of service to civil rights and civil liberties, and his expertise in non-profit governance, Richard was invited to facilitate the discussion. It was love at first meeting.

Remembrance: Richard Alvarado, big shoes to fill

Written by Don Arispe on Jan 31, 2013

Richard was a dear friend, mentor and one of my first supervisors in the social service field. I met him in 1985 when I was a Trinity U. Urban Studies graduate student and an intern at the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County.

Remembrance: Dick Alvarado

Written by Jose Contrerars on Jan 31, 2013

Dick touched and improved the community. He frequently saw what most others could not yet perceive, finding possible in the improbable.

Dick was among the earliest proponents of universal day care. In the 1970’s and 80’s he promoted parent training and early childhood development as strategic approaches to improving educational attainment, workforce improvement and family self sufficiency… efforts which have taken root in community, not yet at the scale he envisioned, but solidly rooted in public policy.

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