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Count Me In “Ten for ‘10”
The Hagedorn Foundation and several other Long Island-based funders have launched a collaborative funding initiative to support a coordinated nationwide campaign to increase participation in the 2010 Census in communities that are at significant risk of being undercounted.
The foundations released a Request For Proposals [download the PDF directly], inviting projects from nonprofit organizations to develop public education, outreach, communications, special events and community mobilizing activities specifically aimed at increasing mail response rates in designated communities.
Specifically, the initiative seeks to increase the response rate in what the Census Bureau has determined are Long Island’s hard-to-count communities, which include people of color, children, immigrants, residents of multi-family dwellings, renters, and many other undercounted populations.
The CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research created maps of these communities to identify areas that likely will be hard to count in 2010, based on an analysis by the Census Bureau and related information. The maps are part of a nationwide effort to map "hard to count" communities and help guide local groups to focus their outreach on the most important areas.
