Nonprofit Quarterly
By: Steve Dubb
The New York Community Trust has agreed to host a New York State Grantmakers for Census Equity affinity fund, reports David Gentile in NYN Media. The foundation affinity group aims “to raise $1 to $2 million to help mobilize local and statewide efforts to make the 2020 Census accurate and fair,” said a trust spokesperson.
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And 2010 Census funding itself was far less than in 2000. The underfunding in 2010 led to an undercount of almost one million young children, reports Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families. Gentile adds, “The problem appears set to worsen in 2020.”
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Links to Karina Wagnerman’s research on undercounted children in the Census.Read more here.