San Antonio in February?

I’m not quite sure if I’ve ever produced a conference in February. The reason for our February event, Neighborhood Economics: San Antonio, is that we really wanted to go to San Antonio, and we don’t want to be there in the heat that strained the people and the grid last year.. We have amazing partners there, and the work on the ground in building neighborhoods that have a thriving economy is moving. People get it there, and we want to showcase that work and gather others from around the country who share common goals … and ideas!

But February? Well, we are going there in February because our local partners convinced us that the deep winter is the safest time if we want to be outside – ice storms notwithstanding! And I have to say that the scouting trips we made this summer really bore that out. You do NOT want to be in Texas in July, August, or maybe even September. Just checked the weather app and on today, September 20, this afternoon it is predicted to be 98 degrees in San Antonio! In SEPTEMBER, y’all!

But I digress. The point of this is to point out that February SEEMS a long way away, but, when you take out all of those weeks that we just stop doing much of anything other than holiday making, it’s actually getting closer than you might think! 

We don’t expect too many people to purchase tickets between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so we are hoping that folks will stop for a few hours this week or next and look at travel budgets and calendars and make a decision NOW to join us in February. 

The current ticket code for discounted tickets is FALLSPECIAL and that will give you $200 off through November 4th. Don’t let discounts slip past and then have to purchase a full-price ticket after the new year. It might be best to just go ahead and do that now! Buy the ticket.

And, yes, people are doing that now. People are buying tickets, pitching ideas for our main stage and break-out conversations, and fully engaging with us as we plan this event. We hope you will, too.

If you’ve never been to a Neighborhood Economics event, you can expect experts from around the country and quite a few local practitioners to be on hand to engage in topics such as creating economic opportunities across race, class, and zip codes in your own towns, bridging the racial wealth gap, connecting your faith to your finances, and how to use many of the tools that are currently working in this ecosystem to repair local economies.