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 hard-to-count

Summer 2019

• Discuss opportunities with your current funders for grants to support get-out-the-count in your community
• Create a link on your website to nonprofitvotes.org
• Add information about the census to an E-Communication or Newsletter
• Contact your local or regional census office about partnering
• Advertise U.S. Census Bureau job opportunities
• Contact your city and/or county about local complete count committees

September 2019- February 2020

• Develop a plan for how those your serve will have access to
  the census 2020 website to complete the form online
• Develop messages to connect the census to your work
• Promote census in e-communications
• Include at a conference or other convening
• Distribute 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

March – May 2020

• Incorporate the census into ongoing outreach, services and advocacy
• Display Posters – with key messages, where to get help
• Provide computers and phones for people to use when completing the census