Category: Blog

Taking Flight: Dee Howard Foundation

From virtually the early days of flight, San Antonio has been an aviation hotspot. Among the legendary figures that have helped shape the industry in the city was Durrell “Dee” […]

Veterans Day: Thank You For Your Service

San Antonio Area Foundation staff don’t need to look far to find a former service member to thank today on Veterans Day. For Veterans Day 2024, the Area Foundation wanted […]

Area Foundation & Diana Kersey: A Match Made In Clay

Growing up in Lubbock, Texas, Diana Kersey came up with an initial plan for her life. A stellar athlete, she would earn a scholarship to play basketball at Texas Tech. […]

Día de los Muertos: Area Foundation’s Unique Ofrenda

Día de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) as a traditional celebration evolved from the death and funeral rites of indigenous people that inhabited the Americas in pre-Columbian times. It […]

The Goldsmith Legacy: Before The Area Foundation, There Was Crosspoint

In 1963, a civic- and philanthropic-minded group of San Antonio residents formed a nonprofit organization with the goal of helping people overcome emotional and psychological challenges. They did this by […]

Advising Advisors: Discussing Charitable Giving With Clients

SAN ANTONIO – Attorneys, CPAs and financial advisors are not strangers to tough questions.   Indeed, the mix of money, family, and mortality is a potent combination that almost always creates […]

Hispanic Heritage Month: Keeping A Steady Beat

Few things are as evocative of San Antonio as conjunto music, the city’s after-hours pulse and rhythm all but syncopated to the genre’s infectious beat. For more than 20 years, […]

Area Foundation Program Combats Elder Abuse

Just as it is an inevitable fact that aging is a part of life, a sadder fact is that many of our elders become subjects of abuse, often from those […]

A Matter of Pride: Supporting Our LGBTQ+ Community

If it’s June, it must be Pride. June has become recognized across the country as LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Evolving out of the Stonewall riots in New York in the late […]

Legacy Scholarship Program Thrives

Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, 100 area high school students this year secured a collective $4 million in endowments via the San Antonio Area Foundation’s Legacy Scholarship program. […]