The Good News About Generations X & Y « Jacel's Randomness. About generation x/y in early two-thousand milieus & current reports. Said about Milieus in 2000: Where does this hunger come from? The hunger comes from a lot of different places. If you feel like you werent fed growing up, then youre going to have intense hunger. So some of it is just I didnt get what I needed from my church. Some of it is I didn’t get what I needed from my family. Via The Good News About Generations X & Y | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction. More current about the Generation X &Y.
More and more attention is starting to be paid to the working and spending habits of the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers: Generation Y. Here are a few things you may already know about Generation Y: 1 in 4 Millennials are unaffiliated with any religion.32. Like this: Like Loading... Do Nonprofit Boards Really Want Younger Members? - Leading Edge. Emily Heard’s recent post on the Board Life Matters blog, “Why Don’t More Members of Gens X and Y Join Boards?” Sparked quite a bit of discussion and speculation on the reasons why young people are so underrepresented on nonprofit boards of directors. But Ms. Heard’s post sparked another, more pressing question for me. Do nonprofit boards really want younger members? If you go by the numbers, the answer is a resounding “no.”
BoardSource’s 2007 Nonprofit Governance Index found that only 2 percent of board members were under 30 years old. The “under 30″ focus is really important to note because that age bracket encompasses all of Generation Y, the largest generational demographic behind the Baby Boomers at 80 million strong. A follow-up report shed more light on the lack of age diversity on nonprofit boards. Passion for the missionResults-oriented thinkingAccess to new networks and donorsFresh perspective on old problems Return to Top. Generation Y. Terminology[edit] Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe wrote about the Millennials in Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069,[2] and they released an entire book devoted to them, titled Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation.[3] Strauss and Howe are "widely credited with naming the Millennials" according to journalist Bruce Horovitz.[1] In 1987, they coined the term "around the time 1982-born children were entering preschool and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the millennial year 2000".[4] Strauss and Howe use 1982 as the Millennials' starting birth year and 2004 as the last birth year.[5] Newsweek used the term Generation 9/11 to refer to young people who were between the ages of 10 and 20 years on 11 September 2001.
The first reference to "Generation 9/11" was made in the cover story of the November 12, 2001 issue of Newsweek.[17] Traits[edit] William A. Political views compared to other generations[edit] Demographics in the U.S. Three Myths About Generation Y - Leading Edge. In my conversation with my peers around the country, it seems like one of the biggest hurdles in developing the now generation of nonprofit leaders is the mindset of current leaders. That’s right, I said it. It’s not the economy or the lack of funding available for leadership development. It’s the fact that many older nonprofit professionals don’t see younger generations as viable candidates for leadership. Look, I’ll prove it to you. A recent BoardSource report highlighted several disincentives for nonprofit boards to actively seek out younger members, including skepticism about the need to have younger generations on boards.
Why the skepticism? 1. This myth is pretty ridiculous when you look at the numbers. 2. Yes, Generation Y is overwhelmingly more comfortable and proficient with technology as a generation, just because we grew up with it more than other generations did. 3. Not at all. Return to Top.