And that could produce an uneven count depending on the private dollars available in various communities.
Maggie Osborn, senior vice president and chief strategy officer for the United Philanthropy Forum, tells the Prospect that foundations have become involved in the census because government services that are allocated based on census data align with the funding priorities of their organizations. “If your community, because of an undercount, receives less of the federal funds than they would be entitled to if the count had been accurate … they are going to look to philanthropy, and philanthropy will never have the kind of money to replace that funding,” she says.
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