Agenda - 6-a - 2020 Census Complete Count Committee

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11 • Place census messages on water bills, prop- Place a census message on all municipal marquees erty tax bills, social media, and local speeches urging households to complete the questionnaire and other correspondence generated by the online, by phone, or by mail. jurisdiction. April 2020 • Host a Census Solutions Workshop (see Appendix • Place public service announcements in local C) with others in the community. media encouraging households to respond. • Develop and implement activities to involve • Have census rallies or parades. local government employees in the 2020 Census Awareness Campaign. • Urge households who do not respond to • Encourage corporations to become official spon- cooperate with census takers. sors of your census activities. Community Complete Count Committees • Have census posters, banners, and other signage Community Complete Count Committees are often placed in highly visible public locations. formed in areas that do not have a government CCC • Include the 2020 Census logo and message on or areas that may require a more targeted outreach bus schedules, brochures, newsletters, social approach. Community CCCs may be formed by a media sites, and your local jurisdiction Web site. community group/organization or a coalition of several organizations. For example, an organization • Sponsor a census booth at county fairs, carnivals, in a predominately elderly community may want and festivals (especially cultural or ethnic to form a CCC in order to build awareness among celebrations). that population and encourage them to respond • Sponsor a contest to design a sticker or poster when the invitations to respond are delivered. A promoting the 2020 Census. tenants'association may form a committee to • Have census information available during voter educate tenants about the census and help those registration drives. needing assistance in completing their census. Community CCCs identify their own chair and January-March 2020 committee members. They may choose individuals • Add a census message during meetings, who are influential leaders or gatekeepers in the events, and to written or digital/electronic community to serve as members or others that will correspondence like social media. help accomplish the goals of the committee. They may also include foundations or philanthropy groups • Provide information on federally funded programs to fund the committee's activities around a particular that have benefitted the community. audience. Community CCCs are usually small to • Plan a major promotional event around the start medium in size with anywhere from 5 to 25 members of self-response or when households get their depending on the sponsoring organization(s) and invitation to respond. Advise communities that the size of the community it represents. they can respond to the census online. Small committees may not need subcommittees, • Saturate public access areas with easy-to- however larger committees may find this structure read and understandable census information helps them focus and work more effectively. customized for your community. • Ask elected officials to encourage households to Examples of Community Complete Count complete the census online, by phone, or return Committee Strategies the questionnaire by mail. A number of organizations formed Community CCCs in previous censuses. Some examples of these organizations are Community Action Groups, Hispanic Service Center, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Human Development Commission. 6 2020 Census Complete Count Committee Guide U.S.Census Bureau