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Fact Sheet: Why the Census Matters for Women & Girls
This fact sheet from the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty & Inequality highlights the importance of the Census for women and girls. From their website: Census data help guide the distribution of federal funds for [...]
Defeating disinformation related to ICE raids
United We Dream released a guide in collaboration with Witness that is focused on defeating misinformation related to raids. As we move into Census implementation, it is important to watch out for inaccurate information spreading [...]
How the Federal Government Can and Can’t Use Census Information
The Brennan Center for Justice has an important article on how the federal government can – and can’t – use census information. “We recognize that some people have serious concerns about confidentiality and how their [...]
Census Communications Planning
This guide for census communications planning contains strategies for public awareness and persuasion including media relations and digital campaigns. One of the insights is about audiences: "To achieve your communications goals, you must be clear on [...]
Census 2020 Disability Community Toolkit from Disability Rights California
This Census 2020 Disability Community Toolkit from Disability Rights California contains data, insights, recommendations, and links to more data and other organizations. "While people with disabilities make up 22% of the American public according to figures [...]
Does your state waive income limits for temporary census workers?
People are most likely to answer the door for people from within their community. However, members of hard to count communities are often ineligible to work even temporarily as census enumerators without losing their public [...]
One-pager: Encourage States to Waive Income Limits for Temporary Census Workers
How Income Waivers Help Your State Reach Hard to Count Community Members: Research from past advocacy campaigns demonstrates that residents are more responsive to answer the door for people from within their community. However, members of the [...]
Resource Library from Census Counts
The Resource Library from Census Counts contains fact sheets, data, webinars, digital trainings, technology FAQs, and more, including state-specific content. Census Counts is a collaborative campaign involving more than 15 national organizations and dozens of community [...]
Fact Sheet: Undercount of Young Children (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
Fact Sheet: Undercount of Young Children (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) Young children are undercounted in the census at a higher rate than any other age group. Young children – defined as children [...]
Fact Sheet: Why the Census Counts (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
Fact Sheet: Why the Census Counts (from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) Why is the census a civil rights issue? Census data are a vital tool for overcoming the nation’s legacy of [...]
Faith in Public Life presents: 2020 #FaithfulCensus: Count us in!
Faith in Public Life presents: 2020 #FaithfulCensus: Count us in! "The 2020 census will profoundly impact the future of our democracy and the health of our communities. Ensuring a complete count is a moral necessity. [...]
Zoom: Census 101 for Muslim Communities
Emgage and the Center for Law and Social Justice present a Zoom webinar that takes a “Census 101” overview approach to the 2020 Census. Visuals demonstrate how various Muslim people groups might fill out census [...]
Indian Country Counts from NCAI
The Indian Country Counts campaign is an initiative launched by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) to ensure all American Indians and Alaska Natives are accurately counted in the 2020 Census. NCAI says: "It [...]
American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 2020 Census
The following resources for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the 2020 Census are from The Leadership Conference Education Fund and Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality. When Native and tribal communities are undercounted, [...]
The ¡Hazme Contar! Campaign from NALEO
The ¡Hazme Contar! Campaign is a sub-campaign of NALEO Educational Fund’s national ¡Hágase Contar! Census 2020 Campaign with a specific focus on ensuring the full count of young Latino children across the country. The ¡Hazme [...]
Disinformation Reporting Portal from Color of Change
Disinformation is false or misleading information intentionally designed to confuse and manipulate the public. There are reports of “bad actors” online attempting to scare communities of color, particularly immigrant communities, from participating in the 2020 [...]
Video: John Oliver of Last Week Tonight and the 2020 Census
John Oliver of HBO’s Last Week Tonight discusses the 2020 Census, why it matters, and the consequences of an undercount. https://youtu.be/1aheRpmurAo
Differential Privacy in the 2020 Census from the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
Do you have questions about data privacy and the 2020 Census? The Census Bureau has a legal obligation to protect confidentiality and recognizes that unacceptable levels of confidentiality loss may undermine the public’s trust in [...]
National Federation of Filipino American Associations Census Video
View and share this Kabilang Ka, Pabilang Ka census campaign video on who should be counted and why it’s important to be counted in the 2020 Census.
AAPI Data and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy Mapping Tool
AAPI Data and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy released a mapping tool to help journalists, decision-makers, and community organizations better understand the diversity and geographic settlement patterns of AAPIs. This tool (see AAPIP website and https://aapidata.com/censusmaps/) provides detailed census-tract level maps for [...]