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... year in the fight for immigrant and refugee justice. GCIR, movement leaders, and our partners in philanthropy have ... GCIR doubled-down this year on developing programming, resources, and partnerships that reflect our dedication to ... to the U.S.-Mexico Border , May 2024 Podcast : Changing Perspectives and Making Connections: One Funder's Reflections ...
December 17, 2024
Blog Post
... that are increasing their annual payouts or mobilizing resources through internal or shared rapid response funds, we ... work, to transform, and to thrive. We are stepping up at GCIR. Recognizing the limited avenues for action at the ... Protecting Communities, Building Power, and Mobilizing Resources ...
April 3, 2025
President's Message
By Anduriña Espinoza-Wasil, GCIR's Programs Learning Manager women workers_resized_350x233.jpg GCIR’s recent webinar " Building Worker Power for Migrant ... until the end of April. Access it here . ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WE RECOMMEND Recent articles and videos related to ...
April 10, 2025
Blog Post
... targets, an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. GCIR joins our philanthropic partners in condemning the ... types of work they support. We have curated a set of resources to assist funders in preparation for a potential ... and will be a dynamic space where we will continue to add resources as we identify them. We also encourage you to share ...
April 24, 2025
Statement
Welcome to GCIR's Amplify blog series, where we feature interviews with ... to showcase their work and provide a platform for their perspectives. In this edition, GCIR President Marissa Tirona ... our community and different organizations, services, and resources that exist in the area. Our work starts with ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
By Cairo Mendes , GCIR's Director of State and Local Programs CMM_250.jpg ... and asylum seekers. Cultivating funder networks to move resources and shift philanthropic practices. In the early ... those directly impacted by immigration in addition to the perspectives and insights of our funder members. During a ...
July 19, 2023
Blog Post
... to showcase their work and provide a platform for their perspectives. In this episode of our Amplify podcast, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Maria ... organizing capacity on the ground, and all the extra resources that it takes to do this with people that have been ...
March 27, 2025
GCIR Blog Series
... work to support and invest in. Funders can: Move resources to build the narrative power necessary to change ... inclusive, and other pro-immigrant policies abound. GCIR’s 2024 Policy Agenda details some of those ... in which: Immigrant and refugee communities will have the resources and capital to self-determine. The leadership and ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... advocacy, and policy work that continues to this day at GCIR. At GCIR, we are deliberately providing a platform for those most ... change. For philanthropy, it must mean providing needed resources and using its powerful voice and influence to ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... has transpired in our country since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of ... and daughter of immigrants from the Philippines, I come to GCIR with a deeply personal understanding that belonging is ... I believe we must, and we will. To do so, I believe that GCIR will need to build forward its critical role in the U.S. ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
... learn from and flank our movement leaders, activating our resources, power, and platforms in service of their work. It ... and belonging. I am so honored to join the board of GCIR, an organization I have long admired and that shares my ... remain inspired by immigrant leaders and the ways in which GCIR and our funder colleagues are showing up in active ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
In this edition, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Kris Hayashi , ... and sexual orientation, and who face violence and lack of resources as a result. One response we received from funders ... only 4 cents focus on trans communities. In 2020, resources moved out of foundations in a way I’d never seen ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun , ... of engagement builds youth consciousness of how public resources are allocated. It shows the city that our youth are ... essential information like how to stay safe and access resources in the face of Covid-19. In this way, young people ...
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... 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 ... principle is about being strategic about the use of our resources for maximum impact. Collaborative. If we are to ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... and field leaders across the country. As we look toward GCIR’s biennial convening in May 2022, I am excited to have ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
In this edition, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Arcenio Lopez , ... is often made up of wealthy people who donate, who have resources, who can ask other people for money and help with ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... engages with communities and how it redistributes resources. We hope you will be inspired by the work of the ...
April 4, 2023
Response Fund
... philanthropy and other critical decision-making spaces GCIR is the lead organization guiding the Fund's strategic ... migrant communities and to inform how it redistributes resources. These principles are grounded in trusting ...
November 7, 2022
Response Fund