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... and skills that would support the successful long-term civic and economic integration of immigrants and their ... addresses immigrants’ language learning and longer-term integration success needs. The initiative has also ...
October 11, 2018
Co-Sponsored Program
Skills to Survive or Thrive? Shifting the Paradigm for Immigrant Adult Learners From Survival English to Integration Success
... for good, many restaurant workers will be faced with long-term loss of income. For months to come, they will need help ...
March 15, 2020
Response Fund
Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation Announces COVID19 Crisis Relief Fund
... insecure legal status leads to decreased wages and long-term earnings potential, as well as wage theft and other ...
June 11, 2019
Webinar
Economic Security for Immigrants: Innovative Workforce Approaches
... of all immigrant communities. We also must design long-term strategies for an inclusive recovery that values, builds ... of immigrant communities. Alleviate Dreamers’ Long-Term Concerns About Being Able to Live and Work in This ... accelerate completion of degrees and in-demand short-term credentials, it is critical that they build in the ...
May 15, 2020
Commentary
COVID-19 Highlights the Need to Support Immigrants Now and Into the Future
... immediate needs of these communities while building long-term worker power that transcends migrant status and gender ...
March 27, 2025
Webinar
Building Worker Power for Migrant Women

Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Building a Multi-Racial Democracy by Investing in Immigrant and Refugee Movements Before, During, and After Elections" here, including the session recording, transcript, and other materials shared. 
August, 2024
Program Materials
Materials: Building a Multi-Racial Democracy by Investing in Immigrant and Refugee Movements Before, During, and After Elections
... while also building the bench and conditions for long-term advances in immigrant inclusion and justice.   Join us ...
December 10, 2019
Webinar
“All Immigration is Local”: Philanthropy’s Role in State and Local Advocacy

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 21, 2020
News Article
Pandemic Steals Most from Immigrant Working Women
... this has not created the conditions for the long term sustainability of immigrant serving organizations.  In ...
July 25, 2024
Webinar
Building a Multi-Racial Democracy by Investing in Immigrant and Refugee Movements Before, During, and After Elections

Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Building Immigrant Women's Economic Power" here, including the session recording and PowerPoint. 
April, 2023
Program Materials
Materials: Building Immigrant Women's Economic Power
April, 2025
Program Materials
Materials: Building Worker Power for Migrant Women

Find all program-related materials for the webinar, "Economic Security for Immigrants: Innovative Workforce Approaches" here, including presentation, recording, and other resources.
June, 2019
Program Materials
Materials: Economic Security for Immigrants: Innovative Workforce Approaches

This 29-slide presentation covered how advocates can advance policies to boost immigrant workers' success, such as career pathways, sector partnerships, integrated education and training, and state data systems and workforce data tools.
March, 2018
Presentation
State Policy Levers That Can Address Immigrant Workforce Needs
November, 2016
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
Building California's Immigrant Workforce: Opportunities for Grantmakers

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 16, 2020
News Article
A Phase 4 Coronavirus Relief Bill Must Include Protections for Undocumented Immigrants