WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.read more >>
California Civic Participation Funders
Joining Forces to Increase Impact
How can foundations help build movements for opportunity and social change... and win? An innovative partnership of 10 foundations is working in four counties in California to increase civic participation in communities of color and among low-income populations. A case study on the effort explores what’s unique about this funder collaborative aimed at collective impact, what it’s accomplished so far, and where it’s going.read more >>
2010 Census Redistricting Data is now available! According to Public Law (P.L.) 94-171, we must provide redistricting data to the 50 states no later than April 1st of the year following the census. As a result, we are delivering the data state-by-state on a flow basis in February and March. Each table will provide summaries of population totals, as well as data on race, Hispanic origin and voting age for multiple geographies within the state, such as census blocks, tracts, voting districts, cities, counties and school districts.read more >>
Illinois grantmakers banded together to form the Illinois Funders Census Initiative (the Initiative) in early 2009. They sought to increase the number of households that would complete and mail back their 2010 census questionnaires – stage one of the decennial census. The funders sought to assure that Illinois would receive its fair share of federal money and an accurate count of those historically undercounted.read more >>
Ten Illinois grantmakers banded together to create the Illinois Funders Census Initiative (the Initiative) in the spring of 2009. They sought to increase the number of households that completed and mailed back their census questionnaires – stage one of the decennial census. This phase is less expensive1 and provides more accurate data2 than the next phase of door-to-door enumeration by Census Bureau employees. The funders sought to assure that Illinois would receive its fair share of federal money and an accurate count of those historically undercounted.read more >>
This briefing paper, Counting the Invisible Man, attempts to explore some critical questions through the lens of a very specific project that endeavored to increase the participation of Black males in the 2010 Census. Seeking to impact a demographic that has been historically undercounted, Ford Foundation invested in Twenty-First Century Foundation (21CF) to develop an initiative and grantmaking strategy to attract Black males to be socially visible, by way of being counted in the 2010 Census.read more >>
WASHINGTON (AP) — Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade — one of the largest shares ever — with Hispanics accounting for much of the gain in many of the states picking up new House seats.
Preliminary census estimates also suggest the number of multiracial Americans jumped roughly 20 percent since 2000, to over 5 million. read more >>
