Arts & Democracy Resources

Census Resources

The Arts & Democracy Project is gathering culturally-based resources that support efforts to engage historically undercounted populations in the 2010 census.

Make Yourself Count campaign from Leadership Conference on Civil Rights offers tool kits, campaign plans, multi-lingual resources, and materials for organizing around celebrations and cultural events

Podcast of Biko Baker describing the League of Young Voters' census work.

Podcast of Steven Renderos describing Main Street Project's census work.

Numbers Don't Lie campaign from League of Young Voters will launch on March 1 with new videos appearing every other week.

Multi-lingual community census guides in English, Spanish, Somali, and Hmong created by Main Street Project.

Indian Country Counts: Our People. Our Nation. Our Future, from National Council for American Indians. The initiative includes an art competition and resources include a Toolkit for Tribes.

The Fair Count to Fair Share Census Initiative from the Praxis Project. Resources include a Census 2010 Toolkit and Building Capacity Building Power Initiative Report, aimed at protecting the interests of people of African descent.

Latino Census Network from the National Institute for Latino Policy includes an informational listserv that publishes the Latino Census Network eNewsletter.

Census 2010: South Asians Count! Campaign from South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) includes fact sheets in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu.

Be Counted Represent from Voto Latino includes census-themed itunes cards, a "pledge to be counted" page, and radio PSA's with high profile celebrity artists available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Queer the Census, from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, seeks to ensure that LGBT people are accurately counted in the next census.

Increasing Democratic Participation: Motivating Historically Undercounted Populations to Be Counted in the 2010 Census is a message manual for census activists.

Communicating the Message Effectively is communication and messaging resource that provides language you can use to create an effective message about the importance of participating in the 2010 Census for the community you serve.

Podcasts

mvl podcast: arts & activism - is there a disconnect?: http://www.communitychange.org/our-projects/movementvisionlab/blog/mvl-podcast-arts-activism-is-there-a-disconnect.mp3/view

Web sites

Appalshop / Roadside Theater: www.appalshop.org

Can't Stop Won't Stop: http://www.cantstopwontstop.com

Christensen Fund: http://www.christensenfund.org

Humboldt Area Foundation: http://www.hafoundation.org

League of Rural Voters Main Street Project: http://www.leagueofruralvoters.org

Third World Majority: http://cultureisaweapon.org

Provisions Library: Resources for arts and social change: http://www.provisionslibrary.org

Radio Bilingue: http://www.radiobilingue.org

Research Center for Leadership and Action: includes cooperative inquiry research related to art, social change, and leadership. ext/javascript"> // --> t;http://wagner.nyu.edu/centers/leadership.php

Alternate Roots, Resources for Social Change: http://www.alternateroots.org

Animating Democracy Initiative: www.americansforthearts.org/AnimatingDemocracy

Community Arts Network: http://www.communityarts.net

Recent Publications

Art, Dialogue, Action, Activism. Washington DC: Americans for the Arts, 2005

Borrup, Tom, with Partners for Livable Communities. The Creative Community Builders Handbook. St. Paul: Fieldstone Alliance, 2006

Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005

Goldbard, Arlene. New Creative Community. Oakland: New Village Press, 2006

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