January 10, 2020

Jamaica Plain Nonprofit Gets Census Grant from Mass. Census Equity Fund

Author: John Lynds

This year the United States will conduct its decennial census. In Boston there’s been a huge push to ensure a fair and complete count in the 2020 U.S. Census because it determines everything from representation in Congress, to federal funds for schools, affordable housing, infrastructure and health care programs.
In Jamaica Plain and across Boston nonprofits have been making an extra push to get marginalized groups to fill out the census and be counted.
Those efforts in the neighborhood got a bo