Undocumented Immigrants
Join GCIR and Resilience Force in an abbreviated showing of episode four of the immediately acclaimed Netflix docuseries: “Immigration Nation.” Following various clips, dive into a discussion with filmmakers and organizers exploring the connection between climate, immigration, labor, ICE enforcement, and philanthropy’s response in this moment.
August 2020
Webinar
Program
Join ReWork the Bay, in partnership with the San Francisco Foundation and the Grove Foundation, who have mapped cash relief efforts across the nine-county Bay Area, as a first step toward strengthening the infrastructure needed to ensure undocumented residents can safely and efficiently access cash relief.
June 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
Source: Bay Area Undocumented Cash Relief Network
Program
The COVID-19 crisis has heightened the consequences of recent policies that have deterred immigrants from receiving federal safety net assistance and other supports.
June 2020
Blog Post
Source: Urban Institute
News
Researchers at the UC Merced Community and Labor Center find non-citizen women have experienced the deepest job losses. The study is an early signal of how the coronavirus recession is widening California’s economic inequities.
May 2020
News Article
Source: CalMatters
News
Immigrants have always been a vital part of the social and economic fabric of this country. They have always taken on an oversized share of the frontline work of caring for our sick, our young, and our elderly. So it may not be surprising that immigrant communities are disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 2020
Commentary
Source: JFF
News
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) today announced a new $10 million challenge grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation toward the California Immigrant Resilience Fund.
May 2020
Press Release
News
Americans are eligible for up to $1,200 in coronavirus stimulus money — unless they're married and filing taxes jointly with an immigrant who doesn’t have a Social Security number. Democratic leaders are demanding to change that.
May 2020
News Article
Source: NBC News
News
U.S. deportation and expulsion practices are recklessly exposing an entire region to increased risk of COVID-19.
May 2020
Issue Brief
Resource
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be one of the worst economic recessions in American history, and the federal government has rightly taken preliminary steps to mitigate the harm for working-class Americans. As a result of the first three stimulus bills, some economic relief is on the horizon for the average American. Unfortunately, there has been relatively little done to provide relief to a critical yet often overlooked segment of the American labor force: undocumented immigrants
April 2020
News Article
Source: Center for American Progress
News
April 2020
Press Release
Source: Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
News