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The Ford Foundation and The Opportunity Agenda, in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations and Public Interest Projects’ U.S. Human Rights and Four Freedoms Funds, invite you to a funder briefing on public opinion and media research on key social justice topics:
The briefing will share new analysis and recommendations for funders seeking to influence public attitudes, practice, and policy. The research has implications for a wide range of issues, including education, criminal justice reform, health, employment, housing, and economic development.
Registration
Space is limited. To reserve a place at the briefing, please contact Ross Mudrick by phone (212-584-3709) or email at rmudrick@opportunityagenda.org.
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.
Speakers:
Moderator:
NFG Members: To register, please visit NFG's registration page.
GCIR Members: To register, please send an email to nfg@nfg.org.
For more information about this program, please contact GCIR's Program Director Diana Ip.
Designed by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and Workfore Matters Funder's Network.
With unprecedented and unrelenting high unemployment rates, it is hard to believe that some jobs are going unfilled. Addressing the skills mismatch is essential to driving economic recovery and growth. Yet there are reasons to believe the situation might get worse. According to new research from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, 97 million U.S. jobs require high-level skills, but only 45 million Americans are currently qualified for such positions. By 2018, 63 percent of all new jobs will require at least some postsecondary education. To meet this demand, 300,000 more Americans will need to earn a college degree or credential each year than are currently projected to do so. The workforce funding community is playing an important role in building workers’ skills and meeting industry needs while improving economic security of families. This discussion will highlight ongoing strategies and initiatives and will allow participants to ask questions about grantmaking, advocacy, partnerships, and reform approaches.
To register for this event, please visit COF's 2011 Annual Conference registration page. GCIR members qualify for the COF member rate. To receive the rate, please use our affinity group discount code, 4562, at the time of registration.
Children in immigrant families account for nearly one-fourth (24 percent) of all children as of 2010, and the vast majority (88 percent) are U.S. citizens. In fact, children of immigrants account for nearly the entire growth in the U.S. child population between 1990 and 2008.1 This policy brief draws on key indicators from the Foundation for Child Development Child Well-Being Index (CWI), as well as additional data, to highlight both similarities and differences in the circumstances of children in immigrant and native-born families.
The Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII), University of Southern California invite you to this day-long program.
With the failure to secure comprehensive immigration reform in Washington – including the inability to pass even the DREAM Act – two things seem clear. The first is that what is driving the debate is not simply the immigration system per se, but also a deeper anxiety about the changing demographics and economics of our nation. The second is that the challenge of immigration policy is moving down the geographic scale: increasingly, the battles about integrating or restricting immigrants will occur at the state, regional, and local levels.
What are the key issues facing supporters of immigrant integration in the current moment? How can we "break through" the noise of the debate with solid data on the contributions of and progress by immigrants over time? How can new grassroots coalitions of business, community, and civic leaders impact their own regions and bubble up their efforts for a more welcoming approach as a nation?
Join us at Which Way, America? as we explore these questions, share the most recent research, and discuss how to reframe, regroup and realign for immigrant integration.
This conference was made possible with funding from the James Irvine Foundation.
California Community Foundation,Center for American Progress, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund,Los Angeles Area Chamber Of Commerce,and USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Go to http://usc.edu/esvp and enter in CSII for the event code.
This Policy Brief examines four types of criteria for earned legalization (English proficiency, employment, continuous presence, and monetary fines) in the five major legalization bills proposed by Congress since 2006 and considers their projected effects on the ability of unauthorized men, women, and children to gain legal status.
Minnesota has a long history of immigration with immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century contributing to the state's economic growth. With a new age of immigrants from new parts of the world, the state is beginning to ask critical questions to guide its growth in the coming years: What impact do immigrants have on the state’s economy and our public institutions? What role should immigration play in Minnesota’s future?
This report, commissioned by The Minneapolis Foundation, seeks to answer these questions and also identifies future research topics.
Through the H-2B program, employers fill temporary and seasonal positions outside of the agricultural sector with low-skill immigrant workers. Although a small program with only 66,000 H-2B visas available each year, the program plays a critical role in the economy, helping large and small employers to meet their staffing needs. From ski resorts in Colorado, seafood processing in Maryland, and the hospitality industry in Nantucket, workers on H-2B visas support regional industries. Many critics claim the program hurts American workers and leaves foreign workers vulnerable to exploitation. This report argues there is no economic evidence to support these claims, yet provides recommendations for streamlining and improving the program.
Co-sponsored by Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and Hispanics in Philanthropy
What are the strategies and commitments that LGBTQ and immigrant activists and advocates bring to the intersection of our issues? While has been intense focus on the Uniting American Families Act - which would allow U.S. citizens to sponsor their foreign born "permanent partners", LGBTQ advocates and activists have a much broader immigrant justice agenda. Presenters on this call will discuss:
Moderator:
Nancy Ordover, Funders for LGBTQ Issues
Speakers:
To register, contact Marvin Webb at Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues.
This report reviews the characteristics of the immigrant workforce and analyzes the impact of unionization on the pay and benefits of immigrant workers. According to the most recent available data, immigrant workers are now over 15 percent of the workforce and almost 13 percent of unionized workers. Even after controlling for systematic differences between union and non-union workers, union representation substantially improves the pay and benefits received by immigrants.
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