“Anxious Mass. Pushes Census Participation”
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe describes efforts to ensure an accurate 2010 census count in Massachusetts, including work by the Massachusetts Census Equity Fund. The Fund recently awarded grants to local nonprofits for census outreach activities to encourage participation by historically hard-to-count populations. The data collected from the census will have a significant impact on the allocation of federal funds and congressional representation in Massachusetts.
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Featuring the Massachusetts Census Equity Fund, a donor collaborative supported by the Herman & Frieda L. Miller Foundation, Theodore Edson Parker Foundation and Mabel Louise Riley Foundation.
