Letters to Our Younger Selves

Letters to our Younger Selves: How to Be Happy

Our newest offering, Thirteen: A First Look at Gen Alpha, uncovers what today’s 13-year-olds (who are the oldest of Generation Alpha) think, feel, and believe about their identities, religion and spirituality, media and technology, US politics, and COVID-19. In conjunction with this release, we invited members of the Springtide Ambassadors

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What do young people think when they hear the word politics?

For many young people, the word politics evokes feelings of unhappiness and disillusionment. Close to half of young Americans surveyed in Springtide’s 2024 Study of Young People and Civic Life express unhappiness with the current direction of US politics (48%) and with US society overall (45%). Conducted between December 2023

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What’s Working: GatherDC 

This post continues our series to showcase our learnings in a multi-year campaign titled What’s Working to discover how faith-based organizations are working to engage Gen Z. GatherDC works to connect Jews in their 20s and 30s from the Washington, DC, area to the local Jewish ecosystem, and to help

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What’s Working: Engaging Stories

This post continues our series to showcase our learnings in a multi-year campaign titled What’s Working, a  Lilly Endowment Inc.– supported project to discover how faith-based organizations are working to engage Gen Z. Over the course of 2024, we’ll visit organizations across the country that are revamping traditional methods and

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Letters to Our Younger Selves: Sage Advice

Our newest offering, Thirteen: A First Look at Gen Alpha, uncovers what today’s 13-year-olds (who are the oldest of Generation Alpha) think, feel, and believe about their identities, religion and spirituality, media and technology, US politics, and COVID-19. In conjunction with this release, we invited members of the Springtide Ambassadors

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