Following multiple court cases and extensive national advocacy work – with significant leadership from philanthropy and philanthropy serving organizations - the census forms are being printed without the citizenship question.

For the past two years, CMF has advocated alongside philanthropy serving organizations throughout the country in requesting that the federal government not add the citizenship question to the Census 2020 form because it had not been field tested. All questions on the census form to-date have been tested. 

In November, the U.S. Census Bureau released the findings of its