Faith-Based Organization Toolkit

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Faith-Based Organizations play a vital role in sharing the Census message. As trusted leaders in many hard-to-count communities, these organizations are well positioned to communicate the importance of the Census to their congregations and communities and overcome some of the largest barriers to Census participation.

1. Sample Cover Letter
2. Faith-based Organization Fact Sheet
3. Faith-based Organization Brochure
4. Faith-based Leader Messages
5. Faith Leader Messages with Community Development/Empowerment themes - new
6. Faith-based Organization Drop-in Announcements
7. Flyer for Senior Groups - new
8. Flyer for Nursery and Pre-K - new

See African-American Outreach and Community-Based AgencyToolkits for other flyer options and the Latino Outreach Toolkit for Spanish language materials that faith-based communities can share.

For more information, please contact AgeOptions at (708)383-0258 (Voice) or (708)524-1653 (TTY).

Toolkit materials were created by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, NonProfits Count, the National Urban League and AgeOptions.

Funds for these materials were provided through a grant award
from the Illinois Census Funders Initiative to AgeOptions for program coordination.