NOWCastSA is a grassroots project of CI-NOW (formerly AACIS) and is funded in part by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, administered by the San Antonio Area Foundation.

CI-NOW includes more than 25 public, private, governmental, educational and healthcare organizations working together to create an informed and engaged community, for the greater good.

• Over the past 10 years, CI-NOW has led the democratization of information through its comprehensive online data center, NOWData  which is a feature application, offering searchable, community resources for health and human services as well as rural and urban statistics and information about the Alamo area.
• CI-NOW also supports NOWTech  five technology learning centers that offer classes on English as a second language, computer literacy training, G.E.D. certification and citizenship.

What NOWCastSA Does

NOWCastSA is committed to creating a vigorous online broadcasting platform so people in the community can take ownership of news and information important to their neighborhood. Managed by proven communications leaders with expertise in community journalism, new media technology and social networking platforms, NOWCastSA is poised to give San Antonians a greater voice in revitalizing the community’s flow of information.

NOWCastSA provides an interactive online communications portal for sharing neighborhood news – from neighborhood meetings and celebrations to disaster preparedness and volunteer opportunities, NOWCastSA focuses on the events, issues and concerns that matter most to the neighborhood.

• Using state-of-the art online broadcasting technology, NOWCastSA offers live streaming and on-demand video of special events, community stories and educational resources important to the neighborhood.
• Working directly with community journalists, the NOWCastSA team helps build new bridges for neighbor-to-neighbor communications.
• NOWCastSA's offices are on the sixth floor of the downtown Central Library.

We Need Your Support

In order to be effective in its outreach and usage NOWCastSA needs community and additional corporate support.

• Your support helps NOWCastSA fulfill the need for more comprehensie “inter-neighborhood” news and informational resources.

• Additional corporate support will help increase NOWCastSA’s service as a vital new communications platform; widen its educational outreach to the community; and organize a larger collective voice for neighborhood­centric news and information.