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Arizona's passage of sweeping anti-immigrant legislation has far-reaching implications for immigrant communities - and raised the stakes for comprehensive immigration reform. State and local police in Arizona will soon be required to check the immigration status of anyone suspected of lacking legal papers - and arrest those who cannot provide proper documentation.
What's the potential impact of this legislation on immigrants in Arizona; what other states may follow suit; and how does it all figure into the national debate? Join our next webinar and learn who is behind these efforts and what local and state immigrant rights organizations are doing in response. Discuss how their mobilizing, organizing and advocacy are crucial to shaping the local, state and national immigration debate. And hear the latest developments on the national push for comprehensive immigration reform.
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GCIR's 2012 National Convening, Global Trends, National Implications, Local Innovations, June 13-15 in Portland, Oregon, will bring together a community of grantmakers who share a commitment to helping immigrants become full and active members of our society. It will offer funders an opportunity to learn from one another’s experiences and expertise. And it will uplift a range of perspectives, strategies, and innovations from some of the field’s most inspiring leaders, thinkers, activists, and advocates.
"What really struck me was how many different kinds of funders from different parts of the country are involved in immigration…this was an opportunity for me to meet people who have more expertise, making the experience really valuable."
Open registration for GCIR members and non-members is now open. GCIR members can register at a special discounted rate! If you’re not a member, join now and receive this exclusive discount!
Presented jointly by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and Neighborhood Funders Group.
Immigrants play a vital role in our society during boom times as well as recessions. As native birth rates continue to decline and as the Baby Boom generation retires, immigrants and their children will become even more critical to U.S. economic vitality and global competitiveness. Together with longtime residents, newcomers can contribute to community problem solving and help address long-standing social issues like poverty and racial inequities.
Join fellow NFG members to explore the implications of the latest demographic shifts on the economy, the workforce, and the social fabric of communities across the country. Learn about local, regional and federal policy issues that affect the social, economic, and civic integration of immigrants and refugees. Understand how the immigrant integration framework can strengthen grantmaking, policymaking and community building efforts in neighborhoods in transition.
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For more information about this program, please contact GCIR's Program Director Diana Ip.
Immigration is an indispensable piece of any strategy to boost economic growth and prosperity. Alongside investments in education and workforce-training systems, research and development, public infrastructure, and thoughtful regulatory policies that reduce barriers to employment, immigration policy can contribute directly to innovation, technological progress, and rising human-capital levels. While the United States has a natural advantage in attracting the world's most talented workers, employment-based immigration makes up too small a proportion of overall permanent immigration in the United States — even though it admits the country's most highly skilled foreign workers and serves as the most direct channel through which policymakers can shape the economic impact of immigration. The authors discuss the impact of immigration on the economy and the various policies directed toward workers. The authors also consider the role of immigrants in two important sectors: health care and information technology.
Co-Sponsored by GCIR, Northern California Grantmakers, The California Endowment, Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Rosenberg Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
As Arizona’s Attorney General from 2002 to 2011 and former mayor of Phoenix, Terry Goddard has unique insights on the immigration debate and how it is being used as a wedge issue across the country to dismantle wide-ranging issues important to philanthropy from health and education to economic mobility and civic participation.
Join your funding colleagues for a conversation with Mr. Goddard as he speaks from his experience as Arizona’s Attorney General during an increasingly hostile environment for immigrants. Hear his insightful analysis on the state of the immigration debate and how it may play out in California and nationally. And discuss his recommendations for what the field and philanthropy can do to advance immigration reform and promote immigrant integration in today’s tough policy and economic climate.
Cathy Cha, senior program officer at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, will set the context for this lively discussion, and Daranee Petsod, executive director of GCIR will moderate the program.
For any questions regarding this program, please contact Rebecca Dames.
As America experiences its fourth large wave of immigration, questions about how well immigrants are integrating and how quickly they are becoming part of society continue to dominate public debate. Immigrant integration is a complex process, however this report finds that newcomers are integrating fairly well according to five main indicators: language proficiency, socioeconomic attainment, political participation, residential locale, and social interaction with host communities. Adapting to American society varies for each ethnic group and also by state. In addition to exploring each of these dimensions the report examines the policy context for immigrant integration and looks ahead to the impact of continuing America's laissez faire approach to immigrant integration.
Despite lots of attention and heated debate about our nation's broken immigration system, comprehensive immigration reform did not become a reality when Congress adjourned at the end of 2010. Congress could not reach an agreement even on partial but critically important measures, such as the DREAM Act that would have allowed undocumented students who have graduated from high school to earn eventual legal status by completing two years of college or serving in the U.S. military.
In the abscence of any bipartisan consensus on comprehensive immigration reform, immigrant communities and American businesses continue to face expanding and harsh enforcement measures at the federal and state levels.
In this policy update, six immigration policy advocates from across the country share their perspectives and insights on federal and state legislative or administrative actions coming down the pike during these challenging times for immigrants and refugees. We hope their analyses will inform your understanding of the current policy climate and invite you to let us know what information would be helpful to you in the future.
The opinions expressed in this policy update are the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of GCIR, its members, and funders.
The policy debate regarding immigration has turned from the national scene to an issue being taken up by local and state governments given the lack of national immigration policy reforms. This report analyzes the impact of enforcement and deportation only policies such as Arizon'as S.B. 1070 finding that if the law were to have its full intended effect, there would be serious negative economic consequences for local economies. The authors find that legalizing immigrants, for example in Arizona, would have a net positive economic impact.
A teleconference regarding this report is also available online.
This examines bridging leadership between NGOs and government. This case focuses on the work of Margie McHugh and her associates at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC). During the 1990's, they labored to turn a respected, though loose-knit and somewhat ill-defined coalition of community-based immigrant organizations into a high-performing institution, which has become a major force at the national level in the area of immigration and immigrant policy. The strategies and methods used by the NYIC are based on the concepts of partnership or "bridge-building", and have attracted attention for their "sustainable collaborative systems that address critical social and economic needs." This case study documents how the NYIC has evolved over the years to the point in which today, it represents a new model for linking people to organizations and felt needs to strategies, and eventually, to policy change.
Co-Sponsored by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families
In the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, immigrant communities and American businesses continue to face expanding enforcement measures. And state and local governments, frustrated with federal inaction, are taking matters into their own hands. For example, the Utah legislature recently passed an Arizona-style measure that would put immigration enforcement into state and local hands, as well as one that would create a state-based guest-worker program. At the federal level, some members of Congress are calling for an end to birthright citizenship, which is deeply embedded in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What will happen in 2011? Which additional states will follow Arizona’s lead and enact harsh measures against immigrants? Will Congress enact comprehensive immigration reform—or any piece of it—this year? How is your community dealing with these challenges?
In this one-hour policy update, learn about federal and state legislative or administrative actions coming down the pike, as well as positive and inclusive immigration policy models springing up across the country. And discuss funding needs and strategies in light of the current policy challenges and opportunities.
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