Here's the latest from the U.S. Census Bureau's partnerships team.

The World Post COVID-19: Help Us Develop Technology Solutions Each year, through The Opportunity Project (TOP), the Census Bureau brings together cross-sector collaborators to develop ways to use data and technology to solve some of the world's biggest challenges. We'd like to invite you to be a part of it. The team is looking to fill the following roles for this year's technology development sprints that will focus on "The World Post COVID-19: Society, Economy and Environment."  Tech teams. Companies, universities, non-profits, and students who build digital products throughout the sprints. User advocates. Community leaders, local or national advocates, and people with direct experience in the target challenge who guide tech teams in designing realistic, useful solutions.  Product advisors. Experts from outside of government who advise teams in developing products that are sustainable after the sprints. Data stewards. Experts on federal open datasets who advise teams on accessing and using data. Learn More TOP is led by the Census Bureau's Census Open Innovation Labs. It engages government, technologists, and communities to create digital products using federal open data that serve the public. Contact the team to get involved. Upcoming Release of 2020 Census Redistricting Data Will Paint a Clearer Portrait of America The Census Bureau by August 16 is set to release in-depth demographic statistics from the 2020 Census that will be used to redraw legislative voting districts. The August data release will provide the first look at the demographic characteristics of the nation by state, county and city.  In addition to showing how the ethnic, racial, and voting age makeup of neighborhoods has changed since the 2010 Census, these detailed data will be used by most state legislatures to redistrict or redraw their political districts for elections. In a new video, James Whitehorne, chief of the Census Bureau's Redistricting and Voting Rights Data Office, and Nicholas Jones, the Census Bureau's race/ethnicity Research and Outreach director, discuss what to expect in the upcoming data release. Read More Protecting Privacy in Census Bureau Statistics Throughout our history, the Census Bureau has enhanced and strengthened how we protect people's privacy when they respond to surveys and censuses. Using a mathematical framework called "differential privacy," the Census Bureau is modernizing privacy protections so we can defend against new threats, not just now, but into the future.  Watch and share our new video about how we're protecting privacy in Census Bureau statistics.  Spanish-Language Survey Respondents Report Greater Pandemic Hardships The economic ramifications of the pandemic have been far reaching but their impact has not been felt evenly across U.S. populations — not even within racial and ethnic groups. The pandemic disproportionately affected certain groups who were hit by record unemployment, mental health challenges and the accumulation of debt. Among Hispanics (of any race), the repercussions were even greater for those who responded to surveys in Spanish rather than in English. Read More Most Children Receiving SNAP Get at Least One Other Social Safety Net Benefit About 92% of children who received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in 2017 received at least one other form of assistance and nearly a third received benefits from two or more additional programs. An estimated 14.6 million (or one in five) U.S. children participated in SNAP in 2017, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau estimates using data from the 2018 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Read More Help us spread the word about Census Bureau data! Share this on social media or forward it to a friend. About Census Partnerships From corporations to policymakers, foundations and non-profits to software developers, the U.S. Census Bureau partners across sectors and industries to help America work better through data. Together, we harness the power of our data, support each other's missions, and co-create solutions to increase data use and participation in Census Bureau surveys, censuses and programs. Connect with the partnerships team at census.partners@census.gov to learn more.

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