Legacy Coalition

Summit conference and seminars: Legacy Coalition hosts a live grandparenting summit that is also rebroadcast to over 130 churches, featuring many christian speakers who encourage grandparents, as well as training sessions to initiate, improve & maintain relationships with adult children and grandchildren. The estimated impact of the summit conference is about 7100 grandparents. In addition, 12 local grandparenting seminars were held at different locations throughout the country.

Church ministry: Legacy Coalition provides church strategists to en- courage and support local grandparenting ministry leaders. Training via quarterly meetings is provided to support and encourage ministry growth. These strategists also conduct local, onsite grandparenting as well as representing lc at conferences. An opportunity with a global partners resulted in adding a strategist who is building relationships with independent, like-minded grandparenting organ- izations in 8 countries. Church ministry outreach includes podcasts, blogs, social media posts & "grand monday nights," a weekly webinar gathering, where speakers with expertise in family & grandparenting relationships reach about 3000 grandparents each week.

Resource development: Legacy Coalition develops and provides resources for church groups and grandparents to strengthen the relationships with their grandchildren. In the past fiscal year, Legacy Coalition developed and maintains four additional resources for grandparents: a yearly grandparenting planner; a series of "let's talk" cards; a series of short video clips paired with group discussion questions for small groups; and a children's book entitled "my wish of all wishes."