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... in Chicago’s Little Village, a predominantly Mexican undocumented community. I got my first job when I was just 10 ... capitalism. When I joined Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), I was introduced to our new ... for communities, sending immigrants to flee the state all together. This likely contributed to the worker shortage in ...
August 8, 2024
Blog Post
... our community and different organizations, services, and resources that exist in the area. Our work starts with ... community leadership. We build on this by bringing folks together for participatory action research and offering ... to manage and navigate things, but that’s not true. As immigrants, often we don’t know what resources are ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... heard from local organizers at the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.’s (CRLA) LGBTQ+ Program; Damayan , a group ... leaders and organizations across the country continue to stand up and serve their communities – "even," as one ... until the end of April. Access it here . ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WE RECOMMEND Recent articles and videos related to ...
April 10, 2025
Blog Post
... born in the U.S. and some in Mexico. Eventually – after time in Washington State and Idaho – we landed in ... That led me to a position at California Rural Legal Assistance, a legal services agency that hired me to help ... From this we learned that we needed to organize together as farmworker women, which led to what eventually ...
December 7, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... oppression that inflict harm upon and withhold power and resources from people who seek to stay, move freely, work, ... and worker solidarity; facilitate community agency over resources; and build wealth and power. leverage and amplify ... strategic opportunities for philanthropy to deliver more resources to migrant workers in the U.S. (especially in ...
July 9, 2024
President's Message