Our Values
Collective Impact
We are stronger when we work together. We aim to collaborate with, work alongside and strengthen our members because that strengthens our collective impact.
Our work will be driven by clear and focused tactics and strategies that align with our mission, vision, values, and relationships that result in impact.
Our power building infrastructure is rooted in equity and with our members we work collectively and in the spirit of reciprocity to reduce silos, maximize resources and incorporate diverse voices with the intention to shift power dynamics and create systemic change that achieves a healthy, just, and equitable North Carolina.
OUR FOCUS
The cross-sector partnerships established during NC Counts’ 2020 Census efforts created a unique, powerful, and lasting momentum and infrastructure for collaboration. NC Counts is leveraging, sustaining, and expanding this infrastructure as a strategy for base- building and power-building to advance racial and social equity, activate civic engagement, and mobilize for future census operations. NC Counts believes that census operations not only promote civic engagement but, if operating at their full potential, also serve as a powerful tool for equity. A complete, fair, and accurate count of the population helps ensure fair political representation, equitable resource distribution, and informed policy-making. A complete count supports systemic solutions to inequity and strengthens democracy. Historically, the census has undercounted BIPOC communities, immigrant communities, and low-income populations, resulting in disparities in political power, government funding, and private-sector investment for these
communities. By convening and creating a collaborative space for alignment and partnership among North Carolina nonprofits, grassroots communities, government agencies, and philanthropic organizations, NC Counts successfully mobilized trusted messengers to encourage census participation in historically undercounted communities and achieved a census count that led to North Carolina gaining an additional congressional seat. Our work on the census showed us how the collective power of nonprofit and grassroots organizations, supported by government agencies and philanthropy and united around a vision for inclusion and equity, is immeasurable.
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