Millennials

By Josh Fixler, JFFixler Associate

A few weeks ago, Beth Steinhorn wrote a post about the Millennial Generation. She asked me to respond to it, since I have a unique perspective on the subject. I am, after all, a Millennial. I was born in 1984, putting me on the front edge of that generational line and I strongly identify with the label.

With so much attention over the past few years focused on Baby Boomer volunteers, it would be easy to overlook another tremendously abundant resource of volunteers: The Millennial generation. The Millennial generation is comprised of those born in the late 1970s through the mid-1990s and is characterized as the generation that has come into adulthood with the turning of the new millennium. Millennials are currently in their teens and twenties – and are just as socially conscious – and just as numerous as their parents’ iconic generation, the Baby Boomers.