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The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is joining with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and The Kresge Foundation to create the Southeast Michigan Immigrant and Refugee Funder Collaborative, which seeks to address a needs gap of the immigrant and refugee population in the region.
September 6, 2019
Press Release
... back to the years of the Trump Administration’s inhumane immigration policies. In 2015, I began my philanthropic ... Pramila Jayapal of Washington, a prominent leader on immigration. It wasn’t until the last hour of the second ... and hand him the policy agenda asking him to advocate for immigration reform. I felt proud to represent my migrant ...
May 11, 2023
Blog Post
... persists to this day but also the ways in which U.S. immigration policies have reinforced and sanctioned that ... of 2002, which transferred nearly all the functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to the newly-created ... of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), and Immigration and Customs ...
September 13, 2021
President's Message
In her latest President's Message, Marissa Tirona encourages philanthropy to move beyond short-term thinking and a laser-focus on national elections to resource a diversity of strategies with long-term impact in addition to supporting electoral and civic engagement work.
September 26, 2024
President's Message
... whenever someone knocked on the door in fear that it was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I shared the ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
2020 has been a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. The fourth consecutive year of escalating policy attacks on immigrants and many other marginalized communities.
October 13, 2020
President's Message