Meyer Foundation Announces Grants to    Support Census Outreach

Community-based nonprofit organizations have an essential role to play in ensuring a fair and accurate count in the 2010 Census. Nonprofits are trusted messengers among many groups considered hard to count—new immigrants, the elderly, those with disabilities, the homeless, those with limited English proficiency—and are uniquely positioned to explain the importance of the Census to the individuals and families they serve, as well as to encourage them to complete the Census questionnaire.

The Meyer Foundation has allocated $100,000 in grant money to support the Census outreach efforts of 12 grantee nonprofits. These grants range in size from $3,500 to $15,000. For more information on these grantees, click on the links below. For more information, contact Amy K. Harbison, Director of Communications, at (202) 552-7470 or aharbison@meyerfdn.org.

Advocates for Justice and Education, $5,000
to support outreach activities to underserved and undercounted communities in Wards 4, 7, and 8

Asian Pacific American                                Legal Resource Center, $15,000
to support the Census 2010 Community Education and Outreach Project

Asian Pacific American                                Legal Resource Center, $15,000
to support the DC Language Access Coalition's Census outreach efforts

CASA de Maryland, $5,000
to support outreach  to hard-to-count, low-income immigrant families in the Langley Park and Long Branch areas of Maryland

DC Voice, $5,000
to support outreach activities and town hall meetings

Identity, Inc., $5,000
to support outreach to undercounted Latino communities in Gaithersburg

Latino Economic Development Corporation, $10,000
to support outreach to Latino and other hard-to-count communities

Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care, $10,000
to support outreach efforts and the cost of creating bilingual informational materials

Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association, $3,500
to support outreach to hard-to-count Vietnamese communities

Prince George's Child Resource Center, $5,000
to support outreach activities

Reston Interfaith, $6,000
to support outreach to undercounted communities in Fairfax County

Tenants and Workers United, $15,000
to support outreach to undercounted communities in Virginia

Established in 1944 by Eugene Meyer, an owner and publisher of The Washington Post, and his wife Agnes E. Meyer, the Meyer Foundation is one of the Washington area's oldest and most experienced private grantmaking foundations. The Meyer Foundation works to develop Greater Washington as a community by supporting capable, community-based nonprofit organizations that foster the well-being of all people in the region. The Foundation is especially concerned about low-income people and creating healthy neighborhoods, and seeks to promote the region's diversity.