California Census 2020 Statewide Funders’ Initiative Executive Summary

The California Census 2020 Statewide Funders’ Initiative was created to ensure a fair and accurate count in California for the 2020 Census. Established in 2017, the initiative had two overarching goals:

• To ensure that hard-to-count populations in California are accurately counted
• To build a stronger movement infrastructure across the state that can improve opportunities and
conditions for Californians who have been politically, economically, and socially marginalized

In the fall of 2019, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees commissioned SPR to serve as the evaluation partner for this initiative. Through this evaluation, SPR endeavored to document the story of the campaign within the context of significant upheaval that marked 2020, while also capturing collective outcomes and learnings from this enormously complex undertaking that could inform future census campaigns as well as philanthropy’s efforts to support them.

Read the executive summary here.