Generation Engage

GenerationEngage is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that combines grassroots outreach with new technologies to increase civic participation rates among young Americans who lack college experience. GenerationEngage was founded in 2004 by Adrian Talbott, Devin Talbott, and Justin Rockefeller. GenerationEngage's primary guiding principles include: 1. Young Americans do not suffer not from a lack of interest, but from a lack of access. 2. Our democracy should be a dialogue not a monologue. 3. The best investment we can make in the civic health of our nation is in traditionally-marginalized young people at the local level.

Strategy

GenerationEngage combines grass-roots outreach with new technologies to increase civic participation rates among young Americans who lack college experience. GenGage employs full-time staff in local communities, who, thanks to strategic corporate partnerships with Apple and Google, connect GenerationEngage members in schools, churches, pool halls, and community centers around the country via videoconference for interactive conversations with prominent national and international civic leaders on critical social issues.

Past Speakers

Video of GenerationEngage iChat conversations with prominent civic leaders, like President Bill Clinton, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Coretta Scott King, Spike Lee, Vice President Al Gore, major 2008 presidential candidates, numerous local civic leaders, and representatives of international aid organizations, can viewed at GenerationEngage's YouTube Channel.

External links

• "Tomorrow's Leaders," Charlie Rose
• "GenerationEngage Engages Its Generation," ABC NEWS
• "GenerationEngage: Young People Who Rock," CNN
• "Meet GenerationEngage," CBS Early Show