Overview
In 2020, The Minnesota Census Mobilization Partnership brought together communities, nonprofits and grantmakers to ensure a fully inclusive, nonpartisan, and accurate count in Minnesota with a focus on historically undercounted communities. The partnership’s efforts helped lead Minnesota to the #1 spot in self-response rate for the census and reached over 1.3 million people. Following the Partnership’s unprecedented effort to ensure historically undercounted communities were counted during the 2020 Census in Minnesota, leaders turned their attention to ensuring the fair representation of these same communities in the redistricting process. View our final report.
Our Maps MN Campaign
Our Maps MN is a nonpartisan grassroots campaign committed to a community-focused and transparent redistricting process in Minnesota. The campaign is driven by community organizations, grassroots organizations, civic engagement advocates and nonprofits dedicated to putting people first in the redistricting process.
The goals of the campaign are to:
- Engage Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and other historically underrepresented commuinities in the redistricting process
- Promote reform that increases community ownership over the process and promote community-focused redistricting
- Achieve fair legislative and congressional district maps that reflect input from communities, and in particular BIPOC communities
- Sustain and strengthen the community-based civic engagement infrastructure and relationships developed from the 2020 Census effort to support enduring advocacy and organizing for democracy-focused causes
To learn more about Our Maps MN visit the campaign website.
Results - Community Drawn Unity Map Submitted for Consideration
On December 7th, 2021, a community drawn congressional and state legislative Unity Map was submitted to the Minnesota Special Redistricting Court Panel in efforts to ensure that Black, Indigenous, and Minnesotans of Color are fairly represented in the state’s new voting maps. View the unity map and learn more about how it was developed.
Community Mapping Resources
- Map Your Community
- Train the Trainer Community Mapping Curriculum
- Community Mapping Session Materials
- Our Maps Our Power - Digital Redistricting Messaging Toolkit
- Translated Redistricting Social Media Graphics
- Community Mapping Preparation Video (ASL, Voiceover, Captions)
- If you are interested in mapping your own community, please contact May Yang to coordinate technical mapping support.
Community Testimony Resources
- Community testimony toolkit
- Preparing your testimony - Spanish
- Preparing your testimony - Asian languages (Chinese, Hindi, Hmong, Korean, Khmer, Tagalog, Vietnamese)
- Community testimony informational resources (What to expect, public hearing process, legislative terms, etc)
- Community of Interest testimony template for the court hearings
- Template for submitting written testimony for court hearings
General Resources
- Redistricting 101 toolkit
- Redistricting Community Handbook
- Power on the Line(s): Making Redistricting Work for Us
- The Impact of Redistricting in Your Community
- 5 Things Communities of Color Need to Know About Redistricting
- Redistricting Data Hub - Minnesota
- Redistricting Resource Hub
Press
Our Maps Minnesota Redistricting Press Release
Final Report
Learn More
To learn more about redistricting, communities of interest mapping or the Our Maps MN campaign contact May Yang MCF Public Policy Manager.