Celebration was a big success!

Our annual Celebration! brunch on September 10 was great fun for an enthusiastic crowd of 132 members, sponsors and agency representatives. The event, held at the San Fernando Ballroom downtown, started out with a mix-and-mingle social time, then moved on to a delicious brunch.

But the highlight of the event was hearing from our speakers. Keynote speaker Erika Prosper Nirenberg, senior director of customer relations for H-E-B and the wife of San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, gave a rousing talk to the attendees, calling them “women who just won’t sit down.” She emphasized the importance of caring, especially during the last two-plus years of the pandemic.

“Impact San Antonio was ahead of the game when it came to the word ‘care,’ ” she said.

Barbara Goldman, executive director of TEAMability, a 2021 High Impact Grant recipient, spoke about the importance of hope. She thanked Impact SA for the grant, which helped the agency purchase and upgrade their overhead tracking system, which they use to help their clients with multiple disabilities.

To end the program, noted poet Naomi Shihab Nye read her moving poem “Kindness,” which began, “Before you know what kindness really is, you must lose things.”

For a selection of photos from the event, click here.