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By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President Dear Colleagues: In light of the ... DACA implementation, the DOTD network now comprises 20 sites in 15 states working to expand legal services, outreach ... states to launch new collaboratives by year's end. California Immigrant Integration Initiative (CIII): We ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... year in the fight for immigrant and refugee justice. GCIR, movement leaders, and our partners in philanthropy have ... immigrant communities. In the face of these challenges, GCIR doubled-down this year on developing programming, ... and increasing immigrant belonging in rural communities. California funders continued to demonstrate their leadership ...
December 17, 2024
Blog Post
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org GCIR and Philanthropic Partners Announce Creation of California Dignity for Families Fund Private Fund Will ... Newsom build on the success of their partnership in 2020, when they provided a combined $150 million in emergency ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... six months of 2022 have been a time when many of the seeds GCIR planted last year germinated and bloomed, and, as ... 2nd webinar GCIR co-hosted with the Four Freedoms Fund. California Dignity for Families Fund This past month we ... New Theory of Change When I stepped into this role in late 2020, I focused on leading an inclusive process to develop ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org California Dignity for Families Fund Announces $2.8M ... million in response to anti-immigrant federal policies. In 2020, GCIR launched the California Immigrant Resilience Fund, ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... year I was thrilled to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging ... to come. Joel Morales at 2022 Convening 350x304px.jpg GCIR’s lineup of plenary sessions, workshops, and ... solidarity with immigrants and refugees. I returned from GCIR’s convening with tools, resources, and new friendships ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
Dear Colleagues: In 2021, GCIR launched a process to develop a new strategy which ... design team worked together to: Define the problem that GCIR seeks to address. Articulate the ways in which GCIR wants to show up in the world. Identify the external ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... a single yearly grantmaking cycle. When I heard about the GCIR 2024 conference, I immediately knew I wanted to ... I think it’s important to recognize that the GCIR conference immediately preceded the election. Something ... you're feeling like nothing will change. Attending the GCIR conference did just that for me by reinforcing my ...
November 21, 2024
Blog Post
... homes they can afford, and enough food on the table. At GCIR, we support the right of individuals fleeing violence ... on iStock , is licensed under standard license . GCIR Statement: Honoring the Rights and Dignity of All at a ...
September 11, 2024
Statement
... of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) elected to its board of directors Angie Junck , ... Wang Kong , Chief Program Director at Blue Shield of California Foundation . In addition, the GCIR membership re-elected Shawn Morehead , Vice President ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2022 Contact: press@gcir.org Upwardly Global, GCIR Partner To Advance Economic Power for Immigrant and ... up with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant Refugees (GCIR)—the nation’s philanthropy-mobilizing organization ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
... inclusive, and other pro-immigrant policies abound. GCIR’s 2024 Policy Agenda details some of those ... satisfy voting requirements, such as in Santa Ana, California. Supporting state-level efforts to extend access ... in movement infrastructure is the central topic of GCIR’s webinar taking place this week, Funding Like You ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... also found significant value in applying a global lens to GCIR’s work, and saw this as a ripe opportunity to strengthen GCIR’s commitment to addressing the global forces that ... worker justice, and racial justice. For these reasons, GCIR is exploring what it means to do our work as a ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
... there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs Learning Manager. My position is new, ... policy and decision-making at all levels. I arrived at GCIR in December 2022, weeks before the launch of our new ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund . In 2020, as I was accepting my offer for this role, the world ... from other funders since our inception in 2019. As a GCIR board member, I am deeply proud that our Fund has built ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... Sara Feldman, Angelica Laguna, and Ivy O. Suriyopas GCIR logo.png This past year, GCIR embarked upon an exciting new initiative and formed an ... ensure equitable and inclusive policies and practices in GCIR’s internal and external work. Comprised in 2023 of ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
... problems we're trying to solve? I moderated a recent GCIR webinar asking this exact question, hearing from ... migrant justice movement is of course a key offering of GCIR through our programming and technical assistance. Here ... materials , webinars , and grantmaking . Here at GCIR, we’re in our second year of collective study on ...
September 9, 2024
Blog Post
Our work at GCIR is grounded in the belief that affecting transformative ... or in case of law enforcement abuse. To that end, GCIR, alongside other philanthropic organizations, will host ... power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made narrative work one of its central strategies ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
As we approach 2025, we at GCIR know that working together will be our greatest asset as ... that accelerated after the advent of the COVID pandemic in 2020. This time around, philanthropy must again act boldly. ... new year, we will convene funders in Texas, Michigan, and California to strengthen state and local networks, and we ...
December 19, 2024
Statement