Registration & Wine Tasting ( Note: Wine will be served from 4:30 - 5:30 PM only)

Welcome Dinner, Andina Restaurant
Hosted by the Northwest Health Foundation and McKenzie River Gathering Foundation

Kick off the convening with a Peruvian dinner and conversation with funding colleagues, and get the inside scoop on what not to miss during your stay in Portland. Space is limited, so please email your RSVP request to Vanessa Cedeno.

Welcome and Overview

• Sam Adams, Mayor of Portland (invited)
• Sue Lin Chong, Public Affairs Manager, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, GCIR Co-Chair and Communications Committee Chair
• Darren Sandow, Executive Director, Hagedorn Foundation, GCIR Co-Chair
• Daranee Petsod, Executive Director, GCIR

Convening Emcee:

• Pramila Jayapal, Founding Executive Director, OneAmerica

Beyond the Numbers: Immigrants in America

The United States is home to over 37 million immigrants and refugees, constituting 12.4 percent of the total U.S. population and 20 percent of the world’s migrant population. This opening plenary will highlight significant national and regional demographic trends, using the Pacific Northwest and the South as case studies. It will also illuminate the social, economic, and civic implications of these trends and their relevance to grantmaking strategies and priorities.

Speakers:

• Luis R. Fraga, Associate Provost for Faculty Advancement, University of Washington
• Perla Guerrero, Assistant Professor of American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies, University of Maryland
• Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside

Moderator: William Vesneski, Evaluation, Planning and Research Director, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation

Federal and State Policies: Implications for Grantmaking and Immigrant Communities

The policy climate for immigrants remains volatile. Last year, 1,607 immigrant-related bills and resolutions were introduced at the state level, and five states—Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah—crafted stringent immigration laws similar to Arizona’s SB 1070. In this two-part plenary, examine the political forces driving the debate, explore what’s at stake at the federal and state levels, and understand the current and potential impact on immigrant communities and your grantmaking.

Speakers Part I:

• Ana V. Navarro, Political Strategist 
• Eric Ward, Programme Executive, The Atlantic Philanthropies

Moderator: Taryn Higashi, Executive Director, Unbound Philanthropy

Speakers Part II:

• Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
• Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, US Immigration Policy Program, Migration Policy Institute

Moderator: Cory Anderson, Vice President, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

Preview Concurrent Roundtable Discussions
Can’t decide which sessions to attend? Have trouble making a commitment? Don’t want to miss anything? This session will give you a quick sampling of all eight roundtable conversations. Then select two 40-minute roundtables in which to participate—or head to the 90-minute discussion on the intersection of immigrant and worker rights.

1. Policy issues affecting children, youth, families
Cosponsored by Grantmakers for Children, Youth, Families
 One in four children in the United States is a child of immigrants. Learn about critical policy issues and their current and potential impact on children, youth, and families.

Moderator: Terence P. Mulligan, President, Napa Valley Community Foundation

Resource Person: Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center

2. What It Takes To Win: Immigrant Community Leadership in Cross-Sector Alliances
No community can win policy changes or influence governance alone. Immigrant communities are playing leadership roles toward transformative social change, from being the public spokespeople in multi-issue campaigns to leading robust national campaigns, in unique and experimental alliances with other sectors. This provocative discussion will raise and answer questions about why collaborations with immigrant communities are critical to win and what it takes for these collaborations to take place in the most effective and successful way.

Moderator: Aditi Vaidya, Program Officer, Solidago Foundation

3. Tools for civic engagement
Learn about the range of civic engagement tools and funding strategies, and understand which makes the most sense for your foundation.

Moderator: Esther Nieves, Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

4. Creating a career ladder for low-skill workers in high-growth industries
Which industries have the greatest potential for low-skill immigrant workers?  What can we do now to ensure that they have access to family-sustaining jobs?

Moderator: Sharon Bush, Senior Program Officer, Employment, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

5. Integrating skilled immigrant workers into the economy
Many skilled immigrants are trapped in low-wage jobs. What can funders do to help them access jobs that tap their skills and expertise—and maximize their contributions to the economy?

Moderator: Daniel Sherman, Senior Program Officer, The Boston Foundation

6. Engaging receiving communities to promote immigrant integration
To reap the benefits of immigration, both immigrants and receiving communities must do their part. This roundtable will focus on key challenges and opportunities for engaging receiving communities.

Moderator: Sandra Dunn, Program Director, Hagedorn Foundation

7. Engaging religious communities in immigration and integration issues
Communities of faith play a vital role in immigrant integration. How can they be engaged to promote policies, programs, and practices that help newcomers make a greater social, economic, and civic contribution? How are congregations different in the way they engage newcomers? How does including communities of faith in your immigrant integration funding strategy strength your overall immigration/immigrant integration portfolio?

Moderator: Tessa Rouverol Callejo, FAITHS Program and Civic Engagement Officer, The San Francisco Foundation.

Resource Person: Kathy Partridge, Executive Director, Interfaith Funders

8. Intersection of economic justice and immigrant rights*
*Note that this is a 90-minute roundtable.
This roundtable will identify the synergies between immigrant rights funding and economic justice funding, as well as ways to align and leverage grants made in these two interrelated fields.

Moderators: Shona Chakravartty, Senior Program Officer, Hill-Snowdon Foundation and Mayra Peters-Quintero, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Making an Effective Case to Support Immigrant-Related Funding: What You Need to Know

How can funders make the case to support a hot-button issue like immigration? How can we mitigate the potential controversy and demonstrate the impact of funding in this field? Learn about groundbreaking research on framing immigrant-related issues, messages that resonate with the American public, and come away with practical strategies for winning support for immigrant and refugee funding within your foundations.

Speaker: Drew Westen, Author, The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, and Professor of Psychology, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Emory University.

Respondent: Sylvia Yee, Vice President of Programs, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

Moderator: Kevin Walker, President & CEO, Northwest Area Foundation

Spoken-Word Performance by Bobby Lefebre

Gain insight and inspiration from Bobby Lefebre, an award-winning spoken-word artist.

Eat, Drink, Dance! 
Hosted by Open Society Foundations.

Feast on a scrumptious dinner prepared by local immigrant chefs, savor local wines and microbrews, and brush up on your dance moves at this fun-filled, must-attend event.

Immigration Enforcement and the Fabric of American Society

Of the 397,000 immigrants deported in 2010, nearly 1 in 4 was the mother or father of a U.S. citizen. Kung Li’s presentation—along with GCIR’s hot-off-the-press guide—will help funders understand the current immigration enforcement system, its profound impacts on immigrant families and American society, and grantmaking strategies to address these impacts.

Speakers:

• Kung Li, Litigator and former Open Society Fellow
• Terence P. Mulligan, President, Napa Valley Community Foundation

Moderator: Mayra Peters-Quintero, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

The Help Writ Large: The Global Domestic Workers Movement

At least 53 million migrants worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women, are employed as domestic workers. Despite playing a vital role in our society as caregivers for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, domestic workers often lack basic workplace rights. This session will provide a global context for understanding the domestic worker movement in the United States; highlight the intersection of immigrant, worker, and gender rights through the lens of a vibrant U.S.-based campaign; and illustrate the power and potential of multi-racial, intergenerational women-led organizing and advocacy efforts.

Speakers:

• Jean D'Cunha, Adviser Employment, Social Protection, and Migration, UN Women
• Ai-jen Poo, Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Hilary Stern, Executive Director, Casa Latina

Moderator: Luna Yasui, Program Officer, Equality and Opportunity Fund, Open Society Foundations

Knowledge-Building Workshops

1. Economic Opportunity: ESL innovations
This workshop will examine two distinct approaches for helping immigrants improve their English proficiency. One approach, being piloted in Seattle with funding from the Gates Foundation, uses technology to engage moderately proficient adult English language learners in workplaces and other community settings; the other aims to build skills among limited-English-proficient refugees with low literacy in their native language.

Speakers:

• Myrna Ann Adkins, President/CEO, Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
• Rachel Graci, Program Manager, Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
• Ada Williams Prince, Policy & Advocacy Director, OneAmerica

Moderator: Amanda Smith, Program Director, Goizueta Foundation

2. Economic Justice: Best Practices in Immigrant Worker Organizing
Workers along the food supply chain—from the fields to the transportation hubs to restaurant tables—face harsh working conditions, exploitation, and a lack of livable wages and benefits. This session will examine these challenges and highlight innovative cross-sectoral and multiracial efforts to improve conditions for farmworkers, port workers, and restaurant workers.

Speakers:

• Saru Jayaraman, Co-Founder, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United)
• Meaza Ogbe, Organizer, Puget Sound Sage
• Ramón Ramírez, President, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)

Moderator: Archana Sahgal, Program Officer, Open Society Foundations

3. Citizenship: Reducing Economic Barriers to Citizenship
Citizenship brings significant social, economic, and civic benefits, but some immigrants face financial barriers to financing the high cost of the application process, including the $680 per-applicant fee and associated legal costs. This session will highlight innovative models from across the United States that are enabling immigrants to access the resources they need to overcome the financial barrier and attain U.S. citizenship.

Speakers:

• George Escobar, Director of Health and Human Services, CASA de Maryland, Inc.
• Daniela Salas, Associate Director, Mission Asset Fund

Moderator: Manuel J. Santamaria, Grantmaking Director, Silicon Valley Community Foundation

4. Civic Participation: Immigrant Leadership Development
This session will illuminate challenges, strategies, and opportunities for building immigrant and refugee leadership across a broad spectrum. Engage in a discussion with and gain insights directly from an immigrant youth leader, a DREAM activist, and the first female Korean-American mayor in the United States.

Speakers:

• Walter Barrientos, Program Officer, North Star Fund and Board Member, United We Dream Network
• Amanda Em, Immigrant Youth Leader, Khmer Girls In Action (KGA)
• Cindy Ryu, State Representative, 32nd Legislative District, Washington State and Assistant Majority Whip

Moderator: Suk Rhee, Vice President, Planning and Operations, Northwest Health Foundation

Innovations in Greater Portland: Four Learning Tours

1. Immigrant Economic Integration
Access to education and family-sustaining jobs is critical to immigrants’ ability to gain an economic foothold and contribute fully to society. This learning tour will highlight innovative programs that help immigrants access education, build marketable skills, and move up the economic ladder.

Tour Leader: William Vesneski, Director of Evaluation, Research and Planning, The Paul G. Allen Foundation.

2. Immigrant Civic Participation
Oregon is home to a vibrant movement to promote immigrant civic participation.  In this tour, learn about efforts to engage the area’s diverse immigrant population—and how they are improving the quality of life for all Oregonians.

Tour Leader: Suk Rhee, Vice President, Planning and Operations, Northwest Health Foundation

3. Building Bridges: Cross-Issue and Cross-Community Alliances
This tour features the alliance-building work across immigrant, people of color, and LGBT communities—as well as across a wide range of issues from health to education to human rights. It will examine challenges to this work, approaches taken, lessons learned, and insights on what it takes to build lasting and effective cross-issue, cross-community alliances. It will also explore different models for building multi-ethnic leadership to promote social change.

Tour Leader: Sharon Gary-Smith, Executive Director, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation

4. Immigrant Organizing and Integration in Rural Communities
Oregon is the tenth most rural state in the country and, as in other agricultural areas of the country, immigrants are important contributors to the local economy and a vital part of the workforce.   During this learning tour, participants will travel to the town of Woodburn, Oregon (approximately 35 miles from Portland), where they will have the opportunity to visit a local housing project for migrant workers and hear from groups that are organizing and building leadership among immigrant workers and families in rural areas.

Tour Leader: Victor Quintana, Senior Program Officer, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

Skills-Building Workshops

1. Metrics, Outcomes, Evaluations: Moving Beyond the Buzz Words
Thinking about how best to evaluate the impact of your grantmaking? How to engage your grantees in a conversation around outcomes? Then this workshop is for you. Learn how to prepare your institution and your grantees for evaluation, the resouces you need, how to select a consultant, and why a theory of change is vital, especially in evaluating social change. Understand the fatal pitfalls to avoid—from taking credit for grantees’ success to undertaking a more elaborate process than you need. And come away with concrete ideas and resources to help you develop an approach to evaluation that best suits your institutional needs.

Trainers:

• Thomas Kelly, Associate Director for Evaluation, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Irene Lee, Director, Family Economic Success, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

2. An Intensive on Organizational Capacity Building
What does it mean to build the capacity of an immigrant-based organization?  Can it be accomplished with a single grant, or does it require a comprehensive multi-year program?  How can funders and organizations share a vision of what will be accomplished, and how much sustainability is reasonable to expect?  This workshop will highlight both light-touch and high-touch approaches, share best practices and lessons learned from experienced funders, and identify ways to deepen impact of capacity building dollars.

Speaker:

• Judy de Barros, Program Consultant, Neighbor to Neighbor Program, The Seattle Foundation
• Marjorie Fine, Consultant, The Linchpin Campaign
• Monona Yin, Director, Capacity Building Initiative, Four Freedoms Fund

Moderator: Marcia Festen, Director, Arts Work Fund

3. Funding Leadership Development
Strong leaders are essential to effective organizations and vibrant social movements. What can foundations do to support efforts to build skills and create opportunities for current and future immigrant leaders?  What skills should we emphasize?  This workshop will delve deep into strategies for developing strong nonprofit leaders and strong community/movement leaders. It will identify ingredients for success and offer food for thought to funders interested in building authentic immigrant leadership.

Speakers:

• James G. Adriance, State Coordinator, Latino Partnership Program, Oregon Community Foundation
• Linda Wood, Senior Director, Leadership & Grantmaking, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

Moderator: Frances Kunreuther, Project Director, Building Movement Project

4. Funding Technology: Secrets Revealed
Technology is invaluable to the work of many immigrant organizations. How do we, as funders, assess technology plans and proposals?  What's strategic and what's proportional to the grantees’ goals?  What are the possibilities and limits?  Can blogging, social media, and texting campaigns really amplify impact and diversify funding? This workshop will help you think through a range of technology requests—from social media to new software—so your funding can help build real capacity and achieve desired outcomes.

Speakers:

• Laura L. Efurd, Vice President and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
• Holly Ross, Executive Director, The Nonprofit Technology Network

Closing Plenary:  Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
A naturalized citizen who champions the rights of immigrants and Latinos among her fellow Mormons and conservatives in Utah. A North Carolina woman who, at the risk of her own deportation, wore a wire to expose sexual harassment by an immigration officer so he could not abuse other women. And a guest worker who escaped a labor camp in Mississippi and led a 1,100-mile walk and 29-day hunger strike to win protections for all guest workers.

Meet these “ordinary” individuals whose extraordinary acts of courage on behalf of immigrants and refugees led them to be named inaugural Freedom from Fear awardees. Hear first-hand accounts of their struggles and triumphs in the quest for justice and opportunity. And gain inspiration, insight, and understanding that will shape your own thinking about the role of philanthropy in supporting the work of everyday heroes and heroines in communities across the country.

• Antonella Packard, Utah
• Xiomara Benitez Blanco, North Carolina
• Aby Raju, Georgia

Closing Performance by Tou SaiKo Lee

Leave Portland feeling energized after a performance by spoken-word artist, Tou SaiKo Lee, whose work illuminates the Hmong refugee experience, culture, and history.

Drawing for iPads, Kindle Fires, and other fabulous prizes. Must be present to win.