... public funding for legal services for immigrants facing deportation. In January, SVCF created the Opportunity for All ...
March 14, 2017
Philanthropic News
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
... DC, offered translations of key prevention and program information in languages most commonly spoken among ...
July 23, 2020
Philanthropic News
... new and pending applications and throwing the fate of the program into question yet again. While current DACA ... continue to live and work in this country without fear of deportation for now, the court ruling upended the lives of ... eligible immigrants with access to this life-changing program. Local, state, and national funders delivered on ...
July 21, 2021
Statement
... evacuated to the U.S. through the humanitarian parole (HP) program, a temporary relief mechanism designed to provide ... will lose their immigration status and be vulnerable to deportation. The United Nations High Commissioner for ... and protection they so urgently need. Rana Elmir is the Program Director of the RISE Together Fund at the Proteus ...
March 18, 2024
Commentary
... immigrants from qualifying for a U.S. taxpayer-funded program and helps reduce fraud and abuse.” Pelosi — who ...
May 1, 2020
News Article
... the next decade. Since the announcement, I’m pleased to report that we have embarked on a comprehensive endeavor to ...
June 5, 2019
President's Message
... • Support those in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody and help prevent their possible deportation by providing legal information, representation, ... and only know their indigenous language. Liza Diniakos, Program Manager for MICOP’s Immigration Legal Assistance ...
August 30, 2023
Response Fund
... these problems. edited_00000434-PHOTO-2019-07-22-03-06-16.jpg From this we learned that we needed to organize ... but we didn’t have enough money to hire staff until 2018. We were able to get funding to hold meetings to begin ...
December 7, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... level, you must bring to your appointment: A copy of your 2018 or 2019 tax return (regardless of whether it was filed ... is funded by private donations and is not a City program. Any assistance through this fund is not considered a ...
April 21, 2020
Response Fund
Researchers at the UC Merced Community and Labor Center find non-citizen women have experienced the deepest job losses. The study is an early signal of how the coronavirus recession is widening California’s economic inequities.
May 21, 2020
News Article
... Another example is the wrongful death suit we filed in 2018 to hold the government accountable when KH Interview ... do so. When a large migrant caravan came to the border in 2018, we had already been under-resourced for years and were ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... while at the same time asking Congress to send additional enforcement officers to the border. It was a disappointing ... long-term funding and resources to build out a structured program with concrete goals.” If funders are not able to ...
February 27, 2023
Response Fund
With the federal administration set to end the use of public health law Title 42 as an expulsion tool to deny would-be asylum seekers entry into the United States (a policy deemed unconstitutional by a federal court late last year) tomorrow, it is widely expected that a significant number of individuals and families will enter the U.S. through the southern border in search of refuge. Therefore, GCIR is calling on philanthropy to resource immediate and long term responses to the humanitarian needs of migrants.
May 11, 2023
Statement
... going to simmer.” Training Needs Shireen Zaman, program director of the RISE Together Fund, which is ... One example: Two years ago Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel raided a meat - packing plant in ...
October 22, 2020
Philanthropic News
... in short order. Biden’s administration will inherit an enforcement system cracking under the strains of the ...
December 2, 2020
News Article
The historic 2020 U.S. presidential election is over, and the will of the people has prevailed. A record number of people cast their votes, not just for the next president of the United States but also for the kind of country they wish America to be: vibrant, inclusive, welcoming.
November 10, 2020
Statement
... director of the Carnegie Corporation’s U.S. Democracy program, “If [the collaborative] hadn’t spent five years ... on voting and civic engagement,” said Erika Wood, program officer for civic engagement and government at the ...
April 9, 2020
Commentary
The Boston Foundation issued a statement expressing their opposition to the proposed changes to the "public charge" rule.
September 25, 2018
Statement
... a learning curve,” said Martina Leake, who is a program associate at Maine Initiatives. “But it was really ... for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 287(g) immigration enforcement program, and more. And with the highly-anticipated 2024 ...
April 11, 2024
Blog Post
