Fair Count Inc.

Fair Count builds long-term power in rural communities of color that have been historically undercounted in the decennial census, underrepresented at the polls, and whose communities are torn apart in redistricting. While we fight for civic and racial equity in all three pillars of democracy, the census is our North Star because the counting effort sets in motion a critical, decade-long trajectory for both financial resources and political representation. We use every iteration of civic participation as catalysts for continued civic engagement to end extractive organizing and build trusted, long-term relationships.

Fair Count envisions a world with equitable vote share participation in all local, state, and federa

Goal One: Fair Count works to make sure all people are counted in the census.

Goal Two: Fair Count works to make sure all votes are counted and to eliminate vote share gaps across local, state, and federal elections.

Goal Three: Fair Count works to make sure redistricting reflects all the people in the community.

Fair Count President, CEO and senior staff engage in training with the Management Center to gain resources and information on effective leadership. Fair Count CEO and President sit on national redistricting coalition hub for grassroots engagement and redistricting.

Early in the pandemic, Albany, Georgia, was outpacing most places in the world with a devastatingly high rate of new infections per capita. Our work started in Albany. On Monday March 15, our text and call campaign began in earnest, as we reached out to residents in a 20-mile radius of the mass vaccination offering help with the sign-up form and giving out the hotline number for people to schedule directly. Our field team began going door-to-door, hanging door hangers with mass vaccination site specific information that was easy to read and understand. On Friday, March 17 the Governor was shutting down the Albany mass vaccination site that very day. This closure prompted our first transition to focus on other sites. Our team supported the Bibb, Muscogee, Chatham, Habersham, Washington, and Ware sites with texts, phone calls, and in the field lit and PPE drops. We activated volunteer PPE kit makers in Atlanta, stuffing 5 paper masks with Count Me In walk cards for statewide distribution. We began hosting weekly volunteer text and phone banks, on top of the goals we set for both for our field team. We supported the mass vaccine sites all the way to their closures on May 21. During that time, our programmatic staff hit the phones, calling our partners in the medical community, organizing community, and the various county departments of health. At the same time, our relationship with CORE mobile units began and we connected them with sites in Southwest Georgia. This allowed us to bring together CORE and Feeding the Valley, a network of 17 county food distribution sites, culminating in having vaccines on site during food pick-ups. In our Faith department, we began partnering with faith leaders throughout the state, supporting vaccine events at their houses of worship, and connecting other efforts, like food distribution to them as well. Tele-town hall events that share culturally relevant and factual information in support of the vaccination program were held.