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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

For Black Americans, the statistics are even more sobering: They are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. We’re probably the first generation of Black people who have the luxury of healing the generation before us. Our parents, they were scratching and surviving.

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4 Reasons to Embrace Gen-Mix Volunteerism

VQ Strategies

Among these stark divisions—arising from perceived vulnerability to the virus, both in health and economic terms—is the one between the generations. This manifestation of the “generation gap” presents a new challenge for the voluntary sector post-pandemic. Program Innovation. For example, the 2020 census shows that 49.8%

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NextGen philanthropists and the transfer of intergenerational wealth

ASU Lodestar Center

In the coming decades, over 40 trillion dollars will change hands. Crafting a Philanthropic Identity This generation does not want to wait until the sunset of their lives to be philanthropic. They are not only willing but enthusiastic about ways of creating change on today’s fast paced and evolving world.". As part of a.

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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. The diversity comes from the different generations in the room, types of nonprofits, and budget size. It was eye opening.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.