While loneliness is not necessarily unique to this generation, the level of disconnection Gen Z is experiencing is cause for action. In this video, Springtide executive director Josh Packard [...]

One of the questions our executive director receives most is “how can we get young people to come back to church?” In this video, Josh Packard explains how the landscape of religious formation [...]

Today, our latest product—Mental Health & Gen Z: What Educators Need to Know is available for the public. This project, and our Springtide Series on Mental Health in general, have been long [...]

Practicing Relational Authority as we emerge from the pandemic  We’re coming up on the end of what has been one of the strangest years in history.  As adults increasingly turn [...]

3 Steps for Demonstrating Impact to Funders  Your organization is phenomenal. You know it. But do funders? Demonstrating impact is all about making sure others see what you already know [...]

Begin with the End in Mind In Part. 1 of this series, we emphasized how important it is to begin with the end in mind. It’s a critical step, not only for your program goals, but also [...]

Fix It In Design Over the years we’ve worked with a number of CEOs and Executive Directors who come to us in a frenzy. Their situations almost always look the same. Whether over a phone call or [...]

While the debate continues about returning to schools while COVID-19 lingers, caring for young people in either circumstance is the critical issue. Parents, educators, and health officials [...]

Balancing the concerns of mental and physical health during a pandemic requiring isolation is tricky for a generation already prone to extreme loneliness. NPR recently ran a story titled Why Some [...]

College students are lonely, isolated, and disconnected–but our research shows how to help young people feel like they belong. As a college professor, I’ve seen firsthand these past few weeks how [...]