Census Toolkit

Download ready-to-use materials below to launch your Census movement. Check back regularly as new materials—both created by Art+Action and from partner organizations—in multiple languages are continuously added.

Send us your Census assets, and we’ll add them to the toolkit to share with your neighbors near and far.

+ Email Your Census Materials

For customized COME TO YOUR CENSUS assets to personalize your call-to-action for your state, city, school, business, or family, fill out this Google Form, or send requests to hello@artandaction.us. COME TO YOUR CENSUS, BROOKLYN / DOLORES HUERTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / SAFEWAY / DAD!

Join us to ignite our communities to ensure they receive their fair share of resources and political representation for the next ten years!

Create Your Census Movement
#ComeToYourCensus

Toolkit Downloads

How to Use

Other Resources

Unlike voting, you can be any age and do the Census. Everyone counts, even babies. Yes that’s right. When newborn babies and children aren’t counted, our communities lose money for hospitals, child care, food assistance, schools, Head Start, early childhood development, housing support, early intervention services for children with special needs, and children’s health insurance. So kids, tell the adults in your life that you count!

Come to Your Census, Families – For Freedoms

Come to Your Census, Students – Lava Thomas

Statistics in Schools Brochure – US Census Bureau

The Invisible Ones: Latino Children – NALEO

NALEO Hazme Contar – Presentation For Parents

Lake Research Partners – Count All Kids – Census Messaging Testing

Counting Young Children – Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality

5th Grade Westward Expansion – Sacramento and LA County DoE

5th Grade Take Action You Matter – Sacramento and LA County DoE

5th Grade Great Compromise – Sacramento and LA County DoE

8th Grade Missouri Compromise – Sacramento and LA County DoE

8th Grade Louisiana Purchase – Sacramento and LA County DoE

8th Grade Early Nation – Sacramento and LA County DoE

11th grade US SALAD BOWL OR MELTING POT – Sacramento and LA County DoE

12th Grade Government Inquiry – Sacramento and LA County DoE

12th Grade Economics Inquiry – Sacramento and LA County DoE

Census Coloring Book – Spanish – US Census Bureau

Census Coloring Book – English – US Census Bureau

Pick a Category in the ‘Toolkit Downloads’ tab above

Filter by type to download or customize-whatever strikes your fancy!

Posters
Most are 11 x 17 so anyone who has access to a printer or copy machine should be good to go!

Postcards
Print these out in any size, or go pro and send them to a printing company

Social Media Pics, Memes, and GIFS
From serious to funny – we love to laugh on all the socials

One-Sheets
Offering social media captions, data, and talking points as you spread the Census gospel!

Art+Action
Specially-commissioned by us, just for you

Spread the word in your community, IRL and online

PRINT and put up around your neighborhood, school, business, or home.

POST on your social media channels: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, TikTok, Snapchat, Triller—everywhere! Choose a Caption from our ‘One-Sheeters + Factoids’ and add it below your post.

Use one or more of the following #hashtags and tag us, so we can discover YOUR Census movement:
• #ComeToYourCensus
• #2020census
• #SFCounts
• #ICameToMyCensus
• @artandaction.us

From March 12 – October 31, 2020 set up a Census Hub in your organization, business, school, or apartment building and invite your community to come safely take the 2020 Census.

You’ll need:

An internet-enabled computer or tablet set to 2020Census.gov

Signage that lets people know they should COME TO YOUR CENSUS at your location, which you can download HERE

Let OCEIA know you’ll be hosting a 2020 Census hub—and if you’ll be offering any in-person or multilingual translation support, so they can feature you on the San Francisco Census Help Center map

Fired Up to Create Even More 2020 Census Materials?

Hold Your Own Census Create-A-Thon:
Whether you’re a professional creative, a hard-to-count community advocate, a student activist, or just fired up about Census, this 10-week plan from Art+Action’s Coalition Partner the Census Open Innovation Labs, will get you on your way to hosting a Create-a-Thon in your own community to generate even more materials to ignite everyone around the 2020 Census.

Browse Other Census Toolkits + Resources for More!

CALIFORNIA / REGIONAL

NATIONAL

Count the Nation
- Various Collected Resources and Factsheets
- Collected Illustrations, Memes, and other Media
Rock the Vote: We Count
- Video and Pledge
Hagase Contar
- Latinx Focused Resources (helpful for all communities)
- How the Census Works Video
My Black Counts
Harness
- Census toolkit
Census Counts
- Counting Everyone in the Digital Age Webinar Series
- Digital Organizing Tools and Trainings
Naleo Educational Fund
Count Us In 2020
- Census 101 (community member focused)
- AANHPI focused resources (helpful for all communities)
- Partner Resources (extensive list of resources)
Census Bureau
Accelerate
- Create-a-Thon toolkit
- Outreach email templates

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