To Start
- Assign a staff person or volunteer as your nonprofit’s census liaison
- Learn about the census – timeline, impact
- Discuss at a staff meeting
- Discuss at a board meeting
- Learn about the areas of your community that are traditionally undercounted
- Discuss opportunities with your current funders for grants to support get-out-the-count (GOTC) in your community
September 2019- February 2020
Raise Awareness about the Census
- Develop a plan for how those you serve will have access to
the census 2020 website to complete the form online or by phone
- Develop messages to connect the census to your work
- Promote census in e-communications
- Include at a conference or other convening
- Distribute awareness materials to target audiences, internal and external
- Host – or advertise someone else’s – training or online webinar
- Co-Sponsor a community event on the census
- Advertise U.S. Census Bureau job opportunities
- Contact your city and/or county about local complete count committees
- Raise awareness by going door-to-door to educate your community about the importance of the census
- Have clients complete pledge cards
March – July 2020
Get Out the Count
- Hold townhall meetings with trusted community leaders
- Follow-up with your clients that completed pledge cards
- Distribute GOTC materials to your target audiences, internal & external
- Conduct census parties in your community
- Incorporate the census into all ongoing outreach, services, and advocacy
- Provide computers and phones for people to use when completing the census
