In her quarterly message, GCIR President Marissa Tirona calls on philanthropy to step up in this critical moment and leverage its power in service of communities under attack by the current administration, including immigrants and refugees. She also shares how GCIR is stepping up in this moment to expand our state and local strategies, advance pro-immigrant policies, amplify power-building efforts and expand protections for migrants in the long-term.
April 3, 2025
President's Message
... should give money to the areas with the most people.” Immigration funders can be prone to adopt this limited ... hazards and often exploitative working conditions. Immigration detention facilities are often located in remote, ...
December 6, 2022
Response Fund
In her fourth quarterly message of 2021, GCIR president Marissa Tirona reflects on her first year at the helm of GCIR and looks forward to what the coming year will bring for GCIR, for movement leaders and organizations, and for our shared work.
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... for a week, is more stringent in some ways than the failed immigration bill covered by GCIR earlier this year , with ... We must work to put the US on a path to a more just immigration system . Photo by Richard Ashen/Pacific ...
June 5, 2024
Statement
GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Kris Hayashi, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center, the largest trans-led organization in the country.
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... In our latest interview, Maria shares how her personal immigration story led her to become an organizer, what ... before anybody was talking about the DREAM Act or DACA or immigration reform. So I spent most of my childhood and ...
March 27, 2025
GCIR Blog Series
We at GCIR are heartbroken about the devastating crises unfolding in Afghanistan and Haiti. Our country can rise to our highest ideals by providing protection to those who most desperately need it and welcoming them into our communities. Read our statement with recommendations for philanthropy.
August 19, 2021
Statement
... interpreters, leadership development, classes for parents, immigration legal assistance, and advocacy for Indigenous ... driver’s licenses available to everyone regardless of immigration status, but many people were not able to access ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... of border communities, demonstrate the impacts of unjust immigration policies, and mobilize resources for ...
May 28, 2024
Blog Post
... is deeply rooted in our societal structures, including our immigration system, and how this has an insidious impact that ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
... will be eligible for assistance regardless of their immigration or documentation status — offering a lifeline ...
April 3, 2020
Response Fund
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
GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun, Executive Director of Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California, an organization working for gender, racial, and economic justice through community and power building efforts led by Southeast Asian young women.
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
GCIR's statement on the events in Charlottesville and the rise of white nationalist and supremacist groups nationally.
August 10, 2017
Statement
... of how one’s gender identity, sexuality, and/or immigration status converge. Gender identity, sexual ...
July 9, 2024
President's Message
... to deploy nearly $80 million to build local capacity for immigration legal services, advocacy, and organizing. ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... climate – one marked by increased and intensified Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids – both undocumented workers and those with authorized immigration status in these industries fear for their futures ...
April 10, 2025
Blog Post
... to emergency health and medical services. Increased immigration enforcement and deportations , continued en-masse court proceedings, delays in immigration and asylum procedures, and other policy changes ...
March 18, 2020
Response Fund
... a reduction in income of at least 50%. We will not ask for immigration status, nor is it considered in determining ...
April 21, 2020
Response Fund
Soon after the U.S. government’s hasty and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer, the United States received over 80,000 Afghan evacuees, many of whom were at added risk due to their association with the U.S. government during the two-decade war. Ninety percent of these migrants entered the country on humanitarian parole (HP), which allows them to live and work in the U.S. for two years, but does not provide a path to permanent residency, leaving them in legal limbo. The Afghan Adjustment Act (AAA), would allow Afghans with humanitarian parole to apply for permanent legal status and would expand the categories of Afghans eligible for Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs).
October 6, 2022
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