The Miami-Dade Counts 2020 collaborative awarded $475,000 in grants to 29 local nonprofits working on efforts encouraging all Miami-Dade residents to participate in the 2020 Census. Stay tuned in the coming months for more information about their work as it progresses and specific ways you can partner. Click here for contact information and to learn more about which hard-to-count communities each grantee is targeting.
The deadline for the Miami-Dade Counts 2020 grants program has passed. See a copy of the program guidelines here to learn more.
Asian American Federation of Florida will unite leaders of different Asian American and Pacific Islander groups to conduct education and outreach to increase census completion and representation over the next decade.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami will educate families in hard-to-count areas of Miami-Dade on the importance of the census and help them fill it out, if appropriate and necessary.
Branches will provide education and assistance to promote active participation in the 2020 Census at all of their sites, the United Way Center for Financial Stability, 53 Volunteer Income Tax sites and 12 Emergency Services Network partner sites, from Florida City to North Miami Beach.
Camillus House will perform tactical outreach activities geared toward encouraging 2020 Census participation among the homeless community.
Catalyst Miami will partner directly with community members and grassroots organizations to implement on-the-ground strategies that will ensure a more accurate count of the low-wealth, underrepresented and immigrant communities with which they have worked for 20+ years.
Catholic Charities will establish dedicated community sites to provide information and assistance, organize events to promote participation, and conduct targeted outreach and communication efforts with the Catholic community in Miami-Dade.
Catholic Legal Services will encourage and promote participation in the 2020 Census within Miami-Dade’s immigrant populations, specifically through partnerships with other legal service providers, faith-based organizations, immigrant rights groups, and business and community leaders.
The Advocacy Network on Disabilities will increase the census participation of individuals with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities and their families living in both congregate and family/home settings.
Centro Campesino will reach out to wage workers, migrants, immigrants (regardless of work status) and their families in the South Dade area of Miami-Dade County. They plan to get 5,000 locals to take the 2020 Census.
The Circle of Brotherhood’s “We Matter” initiative will include neighborhood based canvassing, educational town hall seminars, and materials and supplies to address census mistrust in underresourced communities in Miami-Dade County.
Community Justice Project will provide simple, community-friendly answers to common legal questions about the census, and engage and mobilize racial justice advocates to prioritize Miami-Dade's census efforts.
Emgage USA will engage their expansive network of trusted community messengers to raise awareness about the 2020 Census among the South Florida Muslims and intersecting marginalized communities, and secure pledges to complete it.
Engage Miami will educate students and other young Miamians via class presentations, social media, and distribution of engaging and information literature about the purpose and importance of the 2020 Census, how to participate, and how to activate family and friends in the effort.
Faith In Florida Miami Dade will bring community awareness of how an accurate count of the census is important and assist people in filling out the census forms both online and off through working with clergy, congregations, volunteers, canvassers and community leaders.
Family Action Network Movement will access, educate and actualize hard-to-count communities about the importance of the 2020 Census.
Florida Association of Free and Charitable Clinics will engage its free clinics members across Miami-Dade to conduct data-informed outreach and engagement programs with a historically undercounted population of individuals.
Florida Immigrant Coalition will organize its members and convene local partner organizations to conduct targeted outreach and communications to 20,000 households in hard-to-count communities.
Miami-Dade Public Library will conduct promotional efforts and establish dedicated self-service census kiosks in some library locations, which will provide residents with a safe and trusted location to complete the 2020 Census online or in hard copy.
Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center will create print and audiovisual materials to be shared with partners to do outreach and education efforts through grassroots and culturally informed strategies focusing on Miami’s North East Corridor (Little Haiti, North Miami and North Miami Beach).
The League of Women Voters will be working in partnership with local groups to provide presentations to residents in hard-to-count areas and by providing "training the trainer" presentations to local leaders.
Maven Leadership Collective will launch the #SeeUsCensus campaign to restore the LGBTQ community’s faith in the U.S. census by tracking it’s impact in our daily lives The campaign will serve as a call to action to be fully counted and claim the full benefit of funding, representation, and research that is influenced by the US census.
Miami Dade College Foundation will coordinate a multi-faceted initiative to engage, educate and ensure the participation of more than 100,000+ MDC students, faculty, staff, administrators and their expanded networks.
Mujeres Unidas will conduct a multi-service outreach effort, including door-to-door and social media campaigns, in neighborhoods located in the southern part of Miami-Dade County where traditionally hard-to-count immigrant communities reside.
New Florida Majority Education Fund, in partnership with Miami Workers Center, and Florida Immigrant Coalition, will leverage their experience on knocking on doors, expand capacities, and use multiple communications platforms to reach hard-to-count residents in Miami-Dade County.
Opa-locka Community Development Corporation, through the Opa-locka Tech Hire Center community computer lab, will provide a space where adults can access computers to take the 2020 Census as well as make laptops available to community-based organizations for mobile workstations where residents can take the census.
Radical Partners will leverage best-practice behavioral tools, such as text message reminders and influential messaging leveraging hyper-local data about Census completion rates, to encourage Miami-Dade residents to complete the 2020 Census.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools will educate the school community that has low response rates based on the Response Outreach Area Mapper (ROAM) data and leverage their relationships with parents, family members, students, and school site administrators, teachers and staff.
Town of Cutler Bay will implement an outreach campaign through community canvassers, targeted digital and print marketing, outreach to neighboring municipalities, and public information sessions.
WeCount! will target Latin American immigrants, farmworkers, undocumented persons, indigenous immigrants and immigrant youth, through specific targeted messages, radio announcements, and door-to-door outreach with information about the 2020 Census.