UPDATED for 2022: Where you can get free help preparing your income taxes? Check out the map of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) offices in San Antonio. Individuals and households who earned up to $55,000 in total income last year are eligible for free income tax preparation and electronic filing.  As coronavirus, COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S. and the globe, the VITA San Antonio Coalition is responding to the ever-changing circumstances. The health and safety of the community and its residents is our number one priority.

More than 300 volunteers gathered at Woodard Park on San Antonio's East Side on May 11, to build a new playground designed by children.

Replay Video: Join NOWCastSA from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21 for the live webcast of the U.S. Department of Education's Together for Tomorrow: A Discussion on Family and Community Engagement in Education.  Together for Tomorrow (TFT) is a national initiative to spotlight and foster partnerships among schools, families, national service programs and community-based organizations to propel improvement of our lowest-performing schools.

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.

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 1970s and 1980s 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.

REPLAY THE VIDEO: The Center for Public Policy Priorities hosted the annual Texas Kids Count breakfast briefing Thursday, April 5, where community experts discussed findings from the new report, Choices: The State of Texas Children 2012.

On Thursday, March 1, two major organizations operating on the East Side are announcing a marriage of resources and efforts that could forever change the neighborhood’s physical appearance, employment opportunities, and educational outcomes. Click here to watch Thursday's meeting.

Christmas came early for the San Antonio Eastside Promise Neighborhood project: The collaboration, led by the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, won a $24.6 million grant to from the federal government to provide "cradle to career" services to improve educational achievement.Mayor Julian Castro announced the grant at a news conference on Dec. 19."What this means is that education on the East Side will never be the same," Castro said.

With help from a grant from U.S. Department of Education, San Antonio school, city and community leaders joined with residents to create the East Side Promise Neighborhood initiative to collaborate on a plan to expand the opportunities for children to succeed in getting an education from cradle to career. This video is the third in a series to collect the participants' expectations, desires and ideas about how the East Side Promise Neighborhood Initiative will function.

With help from a grant from U.S. Department of Education, San Antonio school, city and and community leaders joined with residents to create the East Side Promise Neighborhood initiative to collaborate on a plan to expand the opportunities for children to succeed in getting an education from cradle to career. This video is the second in a series to collect the participants' expectations, desires and ideas about how the East Side Promise Neighborhood Initiative will function.