Take 10 minutes out of your day and fill out your 10 question census form. You know, the one you received in the mail a few weeks ago? I sat down to do mine this weekend and it only took me 5 minutes and was super easy. The U.S. Census Bureau is encouraging everyone to mail their forms in by April 1, this is really no joke.
It is vital that every person gets counted for the 2010 Census. Every 10 years as mandated by the U.S. Constitution, the Census determines the distribution of more than $400 billion in federal funds each year. According to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, for every person not counted, our region will lose more than $11,500 in federal funding in the next decade. Why would we leave that money on the table when our state and region is in such financial turmoil?
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.