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City of Plainview NEWS
901 Broadway St.
Plainview, TX 79072
December 26, 2019
City of Plainview Receives Texas Communities Count
Grant from Hogg Foundation for Mental Health to
Support Census Efforts
The City of Plainview was one of 27 Texas organizations to receive the
Texas Communities Count Grant from the Hogg Foundation for
Mental Health to support complete count efforts in Texas for the 2020 U.S. Census. The goal is
to encourage participation in the 2020 Census so that every person in Texas is counted.
The $6,901 grant allows Plainview the ability to mobilize our community for get-out-the-count
activities, outreach events, media buys, collaborative networking, and other efforts to ensure
that communities in Texas do not get left out of the 2020 Census.
“We’re thrilled that these grant funds from the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health will help us
ensure that every Plainview citizen is counted,” says Jeffrey Snyder, City Manager. “We
appreciate Belinda’s diligent work to gain more monies to reach more people about the census.”
The Texas Communities Count initiative grew out of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health’s
recognition that without a complete count including hard-to-count persons during the 2020
Census, Texas will face unprecedented challenges, losing both resources and representation for
at least a decade. An accurate and complete census is necessary to determine fair allocation of
federal dollars for resources, services and infrastructure that support our everyday quality of life.
For the purposes of this initiative, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health uses the following
definition of hard-to-count: persons who typically do not get captured by census data, such as
children under the age of five, highly mobile people, racial and ethnic minorities, non-English
speakers, low-income and persons experiencing homelessness, undocumented immigrants, and
people with mental health conditions.
“This initiative has something for everyone who cares about well-being in our state,” said Dr.
Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., executive director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. “It
promotes civic engagement and renewal, it is part of a larger effort to ensure that Texans get the
resources and political representation to which they’re entitled, and by focusing on hard-to-
count areas it addresses historic patterns of discrimination and inequity.”
Established in 1940, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health envisions a future in which the
people of Texas thrive in communities that support mental health and well-being. Using a variety
of approaches, including grantmaking, convening, research and public policy, the foundation
works collaboratively to transform how communities promote mental health in everyday life.
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