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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
... CA - Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) today announced a new $10 million challenge grant from ... Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation toward the California Immigrant Resilience Fund. The Fund, launched on ... situation, she and her two children, ages 9 and 12, were building a new life for themselves. Despite limited literacy, ...
May 11, 2020
Press Release
... present spaces for healing, grieving, and community building in the face of this complex web of oppression, ... if that is the way we will survive?” To that end, GCIR is responding to these complex challenges by leaning ... conditions and issues impacting immigrants and refugees. California Dignity for Families Fund Learning Series This ...
March 24, 2022
President's Message
... IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org California Dignity for Families Fund Announces $2.8M ... is announcing the California Dignity for Families Fund’s first round of grantmaking investments. The Fund, launched ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... These policies are having a far-reaching impact in California, where one in four Californians is an immigrant; one out of every two children in our state has at ... and fear among residents across our state. Philanthropy’s response Since November 2016, the undersigned foundations ...
January 12, 2018
Statement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2022 Contact: press@gcir.org Upwardly Global, GCIR Partner To Advance Economic ... Concerned with Immigrant Refugees (GCIR)—the nation’s philanthropy-mobilizing organization focused on advancing ... for immigrant and refugee women of color through movement building, skilling, and investing in mutual aid networks and ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
... To push back against this punitive and harmful policy, GCIR submitted a public comment in opposition and ... of narrative and communications strategies, coalition building and convening, and other infrastructure building ... , direct support of groups including grantees of the California Dignity for Families Fund , or Hispanics in ...
May 11, 2023
Statement
... 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 ... and refugee women of color through movement- and skill-building and investing in mutual aid networks and worker ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... to protect the most vulnerable among us – while also building for a better future in the long term. Groups are ... work, to transform, and to thrive. We are stepping up at GCIR. Recognizing the limited avenues for action at the ... We will continue our work with strong funding partners in California while expanding our regions of focus from eight to ...
April 3, 2025
President's Message
... a single yearly grantmaking cycle. When I heard about the GCIR 2024 conference, I immediately knew I wanted to ... very informative. It helped me understand a lot more about building relationships with bigger networks worldwide. In ... and fueling further systemic injustices. I think it’s important to recognize that the GCIR conference ...
November 21, 2024
Blog Post
... Dear Colleagues: As I write my first quarterly President’s Message, I am awed by all that has transpired in our country since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of ... personal understanding that belonging is essential to building strong communities and a healthy democracy. As the ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
By Anduriña Espinoza-Wasil learning webinar.png For many organizations within the philanthropic space, the ... metrics, track activities, and measure impact, but it's important that we first ask: do our current evaluation ... problems we're trying to solve? I moderated a recent GCIR webinar asking this exact question, hearing from ...
September 9, 2024
Blog Post
A pledge from California philanthropic organizations: The COVID–19 public ... developing an economy that can grow living wage jobs; building a caring economy; strengthening an education system ... to secure their (and our) futures; and solving the state’s ongoing challenges for those who are unhoused or struggling ...
July 9, 2020
Philanthropic News
By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President Dear Colleagues: In January 2019 , I reflected on the extreme anti-immigrant policies that have come out of the White House ... if we have a vision that surpasses the opposition’s in ambition and scope. I also announced GCIR’s plan to ...
June 5, 2019
President's Message
... targets, an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. GCIR joins our philanthropic partners in condemning the administration’s stated intent to undermine the organizations that do the ... long-term strategies that funders can invest in to advance immigrant justice in our current context. We will be ...
April 24, 2025
Statement
... year I was thrilled to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging leader in ... the power of resistance and showed how coalition building and uplifting the voices of those directly impacted ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
Dear We Count Los Angeles Partners, Thank you for your participation in yesterday’s census launch press event that unfortunately, was cancelled ... Stay strong. Stephania + the We Count LA Campaign Team California Community Foundation and We Count LA's Guidance to ...
March 13, 2020
Memo
... I needed to know about getting ready for this opportunity. GCIR had hired an amazing organizational transition ... our work as a philanthropic mobilizing organization Building the team forward , nurturing authentic ... distributed leadership, and investing in the team’s sustainability and learning Creating and sharing power with ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
As we approach 2025, we at GCIR know that working together will be our greatest asset as we face impending challenges for immigrants and the immigrant justice movement. As we continue to mobilize ... new year, we will convene funders in Texas, Michigan, and California to strengthen state and local networks, and we ...
December 19, 2024
Statement
By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President The Trump administration has launched its most ... from Europe and Canada. In fact, as much as one-third of U.S.-born citizens would fail to meet the harsh new public ... and their grantee organizations. More than harming immigrant communities, these acts bear the hallmarks of ...
September 10, 2019
President's Message