ESCRIBAN: “DOMINICANO OR DOMINICANA” EN LA PLANILLA DEL CENSO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington, DC. ––The Dominican American National Roundtable (DANR), the only national non- profit, non-partisan 503 (c) (3) organization headquartered in Washington, DC, advocating on behalf of over 2 million Dominicans in the US and Puerto Rico, urges all Dominicans to write “Dominican” on Question 8 on the 2010 Census form. The questionnaire will be sent to households throughout the United States by March 15-17, 2010.

To view or download the 2010 Census Questionnaire, click here:

The Census form includes 10 questions expected to be answered in ten minutes. The Census Bureau requires that form is filled in appropriately to account for everyone living in the United States as of April 1, 2010.“It is very important that all Dominicans and Hispanics in the United States and Puerto Rico answer correctly question number 8 about “Hispanic Origin,” said Nestor Montilla, President of the DANR. “To answer this question correctly, Dominicans are encouraged to write “Dominican” in the space provided.

“The DANR would like to remind all Dominicans that the 2010 Census form should be sent back promptly to the US Census on or before April 1st, 2010,” said Julio Guridy, DANR Vice President and Councilman in Allentown, PA.

Households that do not mail back the form will be visited by census takers.

“The US Census Bureau aims at counting all U.S. residents, including citizens and non-citizens regardless of their immigration status,” said the Hon. Claribel Matinez-Marmolejos, Vice President for DANR Affairs in Puerto Rico. “Census data help government determine the number of seats per state in the U.S. House of Representatives, and how more than $400 billion dollars are spent on infrastructure and provision of services at hospitals, schools, senior centers, and job training centers.”

For more information about the US Census and the importance of filling out the census form visit the Census Bureau’s Question & Answer Center at 2010/census.gov or call 1-800-923-8282.

About DANR National Census Campaign One Plus One

¡Uno Más Uno! (One Plus One!) is a multi-layered non-partisan national program to raise awareness in both English and Spanish about (1) the importance of being counted by the US Census; (2) the importance of becoming US citizen via naturalization and (3) the importance of being registered voters in the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico.

The program promotes the full count of Dominicans, Dominican Americans and Latinos in the US Decennial Censuses.

For more information about DANR’s Uno + Uno Campaign, click here.

The Dominican American National Roundtable is a non-partisan non-profit Washington, D.C.  based organization that advocates for the empowerment of over 2 million Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico. The DANR is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization established in 1997 and incorporated in 2000. We are the first and only national organization advocating on behalf of the growing Dominican American community in areas concerning education, health, economic development, and civic empowerment at the national level.