Witness 2020 Census Initiative
Improving our neighborhoods.
The Witness 2020 Census Initiative aims to encourage incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and directly impacted populations — the hard to count — in New York City, to participate in the 2020 Census.
Witness conducts outreach for the census in partnership with formerly incarcerated-led, community and faith-based organizations. As trusted messengers, we are in a strong position to engage these populations, who generally distrust government agencies and employees, and are often wary of sharing information with them.
Our populations live primarily in low income communities, who often miss out on funding if they don’t fill out the census.