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... Committing to the WES team and their efforts to invest in immigrant and refugee communities felt like a no brainer because I was ... because, according to the New York Times, Africa’s youth population is expected to be the largest in the world ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... and strategy, the ways learning processes can hold us accountable to the communities we serve, and how funders ... of how we got here and how systems operate can help us make the change we want to see. Sharing up-to-date ... Thus, there is an unlearning that needs to take place so that the evaluative methods we carry out may result ...
September 9, 2024
Blog Post
... PHOTO.jpg 2024 was a challenging year in the fight for immigrant and refugee justice. GCIR, movement leaders, and our partners in ... of community cultivated at our convening will help fortify us for the challenges, but also opportunities, that lie ...
December 17, 2024
Blog Post
... across the state. In August, GCIR expanded the Fund’s purpose to include support for families and individuals from ... Assistance also supports unaccompanied children and youth after they are released from federal care and reunited ... members include Dulce Garcia ( Border Angels / San Diego Immigrant Rights Coalition ), Mitzie Perez ( California ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... as we face impending challenges for immigrants and the immigrant justice movement. As we continue to mobilize ... enormous power and privilege to stand with immigrant and refugee communities, one of the primary targets of the ... communities. And – as we know – an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Immigrant justice movement ...
December 19, 2024
Statement
This four-minute video features GCIR board members talking about the role the organization played in addressing the needs, uplifting the contributions, and supporting immigrants and refugees in reaching their full potential.
July, 2016
Video & Audio
... I was reminded that these efforts should also include youth leadership, which is essential to securing wins for ... the workshop “Using c3 and c4 Strategies to Advance Pro-immigrant Policies”, we looked at how 501c4 strategies can ... participants to destinations across Houston to learn about immigrant justice work happening in the city. One site visit ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... unfold. Refugees and Asylum Seekers : On International Refugee Day, we released Philanthropic Strategies to ... to launch new collaboratives by year's end. California Immigrant Integration Initiative (CIII): We continue to ... coordinate strategies, and leverage investments. The Immigrant Workforce Learning Community continues to engage ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
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.
Organization Materials
... we played in coordinating funder pushback to federal anti-immigrant policies. For more information, visit www.gcir.org ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
... we seek to amplify and support. With a new, openly anti-immigrant federal administration and congress now in place, it is ever more critical that we leverage our ... privilege and power to stand with immigrant and refugee communities. Building on our past two years leading ...
February 23, 2025
Partner Program
... the opportunity to lead this area of work. For those of us now wrapping up the first one-year term of the working ... Robust discussions with GCIR staff and board members took place over Slack as we connected lessons between readings and ... goes far beyond individual prejudice. Our learning led us to see that racial capitalism intentionally extracts the ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
Centering learning in our work allows us to refresh and recalibrate grantmaking approaches to ... a learning orientation have on grantmaking in support of immigrant and refugee communities? And how can learning shape grantmaking ...
July 15, 2024
Webinar
... members, and allies reflecting on the past 20 years immigrant integration efforts and immigration policy ...
July, 2010
Video & Audio
... many of the common goals most organizations prioritizing immigrant and refugee justice claim to have. The Arab American community ...
November 21, 2024
Blog Post
... about everything GCIR can offer your institution? Join us for our inaugural 'New Member' orientation webinar to ...
August 16, 2018
Webinar
... advocacy continue to strengthen philanthropic support for immigrant justice. To Marissa, GCIR’s new fearless ... your grantmaking and leadership. To my fellow BIPOC and immigrant philanthropic professionals: You have carried this ... engage other white allies—and may you center and amplify immigrant and BIPOC leadership. To my fellow PSO leaders: ...
December 15, 2020
Philanthropic News