The Legal Services Corporation will offer a webinar on how grantees can use Census Bureau data sets to estimate possible changes in their LSC funding levels based on the shifts in the geographic distribution of the nation’s poverty population since the 2000 decennial census.

The webinar will run from 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Eastern on January 24, 2012. Information on how to participate will be published in the next issue LSC's newsletter, LSC Updates, and sent via email to executive directors.

The webinar will discuss how to locate potentially relevant census data sets and use them to identify shifts in the poverty population in different states and service areas. With this information, programs can begin preparing for funding changes. Actual census-based funding changes cannot be determined until legislation is enacted that revamps how census data are used to allocate LSC funding.