Cultivating Care with Gabriella, 18 & Mirelia, 16

Hear Gabriella, 18, in Washington and Mirelia, 16, in California describe who or what has shaped their ideas about civic engagement, highlight particular political or social issues they especially care about, and offer tips on ways that trusted adults can start these same conversations with young people in their sphere.

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Cultivating Care with Brendan, 22 & Lupita, 17

Hear Brendan, 22, in Nebraska and Lupita, 17, in California describe who or what has shaped their ideas about civic engagement, highlight particular political or social issues they especially care about, and offer tips on ways that trusted adults can start these same conversations with young people in their sphere.

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Cultivating Care with Peyton, 15 & Sunny, 17

Hear Peyton, 15, in Florida and Sunny, 17, in Colorado describe who or what has shaped their ideas about civic engagement, highlight particular political or social issues they especially care about, and offer tips on ways that trusted adults can start these same conversations with young people in their sphere.

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Cultivating Care with Joe, 19 & Mya, 17

Hear Joe, 19, in California and Mya, 17, in Minnesota describe who or what has shaped their ideas about civic engagement, highlight particular political or social issues they especially care about, and offer tips on ways that trusted adults can start these same conversations with young people in their sphere.

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Cultivating Care with Jonathan, 16 & Kate, 21

Hear Jonathan, 16, in California and Kate, 21, in Washington D.C. describe who or what has shaped their ideas about civic engagement, highlight particular political or social issues they especially care about, and offer tips on ways that trusted adults can start these same conversations with young people in their

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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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Spark Dialogue

Springtide Research, an interview with Hannah

Springtide Research Institute’s Research Associate Dr. Hannah Evans was featured on the podcast Spark Dialogue – A Generation Spark Podcast. You can see an excerpt of this conversation in part below, but we encourage you to visit Spotify to listen to the piece in its entirety. I really think empathy

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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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