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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 ... California Dignity for Families Fund. Tides Foundation, building on more than four decades of strategic solutions ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... the creation of a new partnership, the Southeast Michigan Immigrant and Refugee Funder Collaborative (“The ... community work together to support southeast Michigan’s various immigrant and refugee communities. There are more ... country for refugee acceptances since 2012, behind Texas, California and New York. The number of refugees entering ...
September 6, 2019
Press Release
A few months ago, we attended the Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference in Washington DC. Under the ... the conference included a number of sessions related to immigrant children and children of immigrants. These sessions presented unique learning opportunities for funders working at the intersection of ...
February 26, 2018
Commentary
... assistance and other supports. Before the pandemic, many immigrant families faced explicit barriers to or deferred ... with noncitizens have been hardest hit by the pandemic’s economic fallout The Urban Institute’s Health Reform ... meaning they lacked consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. One in 4 (25 percent) Hispanic ...
June 5, 2020
Blog Post
As immigrant workers and families with low incomes across the ... do these efforts need to be available and tailored to immigrant community needs , but they also must focus on ... materials from national organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International ...
July 23, 2020
Philanthropic News
... 2020 Census and its impact on the Black Lives Matter and Immigrant Rights movements” By Juan Galeano, Project Consultant for 2020 Census, Cleveland Foundation It took the combination ... massive protests nationwide to finally center our nation’s consciousness on the plight of Black lives in America. Our ...
August 10, 2020
Blog Post
WASHINGTON — Americans are eligible for up to $1,200 in coronavirus stimulus money — unless they're married and filing taxes jointly with an immigrant who doesn’t have a Social Security number. ... About 2 million undocumented people are married to a U.S. citizen or green card holder. They — along with some ...
May 1, 2020
News Article
... from across the country have signed onto this joint GCIR statement in support of children and families seeking ... role as a beacon of hope and freedom for the world’s most vulnerable people. In response to widespread public ... Washington, DC Peter Long, President & CEO Blue Shield of California Foundation San Francisco, CA Paul Grogan, ...
June 13, 2018
Statement
Reader's Note: This piece was written by staff at Hispanics in ... by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Hispanics in Philanthropy , the experience aimed ... center, which provides personal development programs for immigrant families living in the Colonias in McAllen. ...
May 28, 2024
Blog Post