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6 2020 Census Complete Count Committee Guide U .S . Census Bureau • Place census messages on water bills, prop- erty tax bills, social media, and local speeches and other correspondence generated by the jurisdiction . • Host a Census Solutions Workshop (see Appendix C) with others in the community . • Develop and implement activities to involve local government employees in the 2020 Census Awareness Campaign . • Encourage corporations to become official spon- sors of your census activities . • Have census posters, banners, and other signage placed in highly visible public locations . • Include the 2020 Census logo and message on bus schedules, brochures, newsletters, social media sites, and your local jurisdiction Web site . • Sponsor a census booth at county fairs, carnivals, and festivals (especially cultural or ethnic celebrations) . • Sponsor a contest to design a sticker or poster promoting the 2020 Census . • Have census information available during voter registration drives . January–March 2020 • Add a census message during meetings, events, and to written or digital/electronic correspondence like social media . • Provide information on federally funded programs that have benefitted the community . • Plan a major promotional event around the start of self-response or when households get their invitation to respond . Advise communities that they can respond to the census online . • Saturate public access areas with easy-to- read and understandable census information customized for your community . • Ask elected officials to encourage households to complete the census online, by phone, or return the questionnaire by mail . • Place a census message on all municipal marquees urging households to complete the questionnaire online, by phone, or by mail . April 2020 • Place public service announcements in local media encouraging households to respond . • Have census rallies or parades . • Urge households who do not respond to cooperate with census takers . Community Complete Count Committees Community Complete Count Committees are often formed in areas that do not have a government CCC or areas that may require a more targeted outreach approach . Community CCCs may be formed by a community group/organization or a coalition of several organizations . For example, an organization in a predominately elderly community may want to form a CCC in order to build awareness among that population and encourage them to respond when the invitations to respond are delivered . A tenants' association may form a committee to educate tenants about the census and help those needing assistance in completing their census . Community CCCs identify their own chair and committee members . They may choose individuals who are influential leaders or gatekeepers in the community to serve as members or others that will help accomplish the goals of the committee . They may also include foundations or philanthropy groups to fund the committee's activities around a particular audience . Community CCCs are usually small to medium in size with anywhere from 5 to 25 members depending on the sponsoring organization(s) and the size of the community it represents . Small committees may not need subcommittees, however larger committees may find this structure helps them focus and work more effectively . Examples of Community Complete Count Committee Strategies A number of organizations formed Community CCCs in previous censuses . Some examples of these organizations are Community Action Groups, Hispanic Service Center, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and Human Development Commission .