Download a PDF application here.
AAOP is offering grants up to $3,500 for Census outreach for 2019 – 2020. The decennial Census is key to distributing federal funding into communities for everything from roads to schools to hospitals. However, communities of color and low income communities are disproportionately undercounted by the Census, resulting in less funding and less representation of those communities in a concentrated area. With severe underfunding of the 2020 Census efforts, it is crucial to carry out a massive grassroots mobilization effort with and by communities of color and low income communities.
There are over 325,000 Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in Minnesota, and many of our community are impacted by being undercounted in the 2020 Census. As such, AAOP is distributing funds to AAPI community-based organizations to carry out grassroots outreach efforts in their targeted communities. The goal is to increase API participation in the census and increase community-based organizations’ capacity to carry out this grassroots effort in their community.
Please send applications as well as any comments or concerns to Vangxor Xiong at vangxor@aaopmn.org
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until January 2nd. We highly recommend submitting applications as soon as possible.
Acceptance notifications will be sent out by January 2nd.
Timeline
- Dec 2 – Application Opens
- Jan 2, 11:59pm – Application Closes
- Jan 6 – Decisions emailed out
- Jan 11 – Required training
- March 14 – Midway check in
- July – Closeout
Requirements
- Funding cannot go to partisan related activities. Funding may be used towards general operations that supports Census work (See examples in description of funding).
- Attend Orientation, Closeout, and monthly check-ins.
- Have one to two consistent leaders showing up to all Census grant related meetings with AAOP.
- Develop a workplan and a method to track your outreach efforts with AAOP.
Funding Tiers
| Tier 1 – $1,000 |
| $1,000 to support the cost of holding 2, one-time Census events that will deeply & meaningfully engage Asian & Pacific Islander community members. |
Examples of ongoing events: multiple Census information sessions; weekly open computer lab times to fill out the Census; 1:1 census conversations with clients or community members; monthly phonebanking. |
Download a PDF application here.