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Find all program-related materials for GCIR's "A Decade of DOTD: Building the Movement through Funder Collaboration" webinar here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.
GCIR invites you to join a movement of philanthropic leaders. Being a GCIR member demonstrates a dedication to building an inclusive and equitable society and helps ensure a robust community of funders focused on the needs of newcomers.
As we approach 2025, we at GCIR know that working together will be our greatest asset as we face impending challenges for immigrants and the immigrant justice movement. As we continue to mobilize funders into action, philanthropy must utilize its enormous power and privilege to stand with immigrant and refugee communities, one of the primary targets of the incoming administration.
In January 2019, I reflected on the extreme anti-immigrant policies that have come out of the White House over the past two years, the resulting human devastation, and the attacks that are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. I called on philanthropy to dream big and act with courage because we can only combat these injustices if we have a vision that surpasses the opposition’s in ambition and scope.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Funding Like You Want to Win: Philanthropy & Movement Investments" here, including the session recording and transcription of the meeting.
The first quarterly President Message from Marissa Tirona, GCIR President.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's meeting "Transnational Strategy Community of Practice Q4 Meeting" here, including the session recording, transcription of the meeting, and relevant links.
Emerging leader scholarship receipeint, Joél Junior Morales, reflects on his experience at GCIR's 2022 convening in Houston.
A letter from Unbound Philanthropy to its grantees about the COVID-19 outbreak.
In this rapidly changing policy landscape, GCIR will hold a community call to facilitate joint sensemaking, funder mobilization, and collective action. This meeting will be open to GCIR members and non-members alike who want to stay up to date on philanthropic efforts to defend immigrants and refugees and who would like to come together with peers to learn and connect across geographies.
In her second quarterly message of 2022, GCIR president Marissa Tirona shares some of the highlights of GCIR’s recent work, including GCIR’s national convening in Houston in May, grantmaking and learning through the California Dignity for Families Fund, developing a theory of change though the strategic planning process, and partnering with Upwardly Global to advance the economic power of immigrant and refugee women of color.
A pledge from California philanthropic organizations:
The COVID–19 public health and economic crisis and the murders of Black Americans by police, have laid bare the deep inequities across our state. We need bold steps to ensure a future based on economic inclusion, racial equity, and compassionate humanity.
GCIR joins our philanthropic partners in condemning the administration’s stated intent to undermine the organizations that do the essential work of protecting and caring for our communities. This impending attack on nonprofits is an obvious extension of the assault we are seeing on law firms, universities, diversity initiatives, and others - a clear attempt to dismantle civil society institution by institution.
If you are a funder practitioner currently or considering funding in rural communities and are interested in the intersection of rural issues with migrant justice and belonging, we invite you to join GCIR’s Resourcing Rural Belonging Community of Practice.