What’s Working: Servant Year 

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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Does limiting screen time improve mental health for teens?

Springtide Research Institute’s 2024 survey of 1,112 Gen Alpha 13-year-olds asked about screen time and mental health. The results show that 13-year-olds with limited screen time use their phones less than those with unlimited screen time. Restrictions on screen time are associated with slightly better mental health outcomes. The graphs

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What’s Working: The Place

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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The election is over. Now what?

Even after the last ballot is cast, civic engagement remains vital to the lives of young people between the ages of 13 and 25. How civically engaged are teens and young adults? In Springtide’s 2024 survey, most young people (72%) report that they have participated in at least one civic

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Gen Z Is Turning Online for Spiritual Guidance

Springtide Research Institute was recently featured in an article by Christianity Today. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety. Talbot School of Theology philosophy professor Timothy Pickavance sees the growth in the “nothing

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Cultivating Care: How to Engage with Young People in Civic Life

Our newest report, Cultivating Care: How & Why Young People Participate in Civic Life, explores young people’s civic lives in the context of care—how they seek and gain knowledge, detangle complex identities from narrow labels, and engage in dialogue and action in ways that feel safe and productive. This post

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Voting: What Young People Say

Our newest report, Cultivating Care: How & Why Young People Participate in Civic Life, explores young people’s civic lives in the context of care—how they seek and gain knowledge, detangle complex identities from narrow labels, and engage in dialogue and action in ways that feel safe and productive. In surveying

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