Covenant with NC's Children News

Originally Submitted by Rob Thompson, Executive Director of the Covenant with North Carolina's Children

The Census Makes Sense for Us

The 10-question Census form arrives in mailboxes in mid-March. Encouraging people to fill out and return the form will have a big effect on North Carolina, including the level of government funding we receive for amultitude of programs serving children. More than one third of thehouseholds in NC did not return the form in the 2000 Census, which led to an undercount and lose of our fair share of funds in some areas. "Hard tocount" populations, according to the Census, include people with low incomes or education levels, renters, and immigrants.

The Covenant With NC's Children is teaming up with other nonprofits todistribute informational cards about the importance of filling out theCensus. More than 500,000 cards have already gone out to churches, community centers, barber/beauty shops, food banks, counseling programs, service agencies, etc. You can get a supply of the FREE cards to distribute through your programs or other means to people in your community. Maybe you could ask a couple of churches to include them as bulletin inserts during the first half of March.

Here is what the card looks like, front and back (8.5 x 3.6 inches):

http://www.democracy-nc.org/downloads/CensusCardEnglish.pdf

Cards are also available in Spanish. To receive quantities of these freecards (from 100 to 10,000), please send your name, full mailing address andfull street address (for UPS), your phone number and email address, and thequantity of cards desired, to Bob Hall, Democracy North Carolina athttps://foghorn.appcomm.net:2096/horde/imp/message.php?index=1# or 919-489-1931.

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Thank you!

Rob Thompson
Executive Director