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... organizing, and more. You can listen to the full interview by pressing the orange play button below. Interview ... community organizing infrastructure across the state of Michigan that is building real power for our people. ... organizing capacity on the ground, and all the extra resources that it takes to do this with people that have been ...
March 27, 2025
GCIR Blog Series
... recipients are working to protect the health and safety of Americans as the country confronts COVID-19. They are ... as “ essential critical infrastructure workers ” by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). According to ... Svajlenka is the associate director for research on the Immigration team at the Center for American Progress. ...
April 6, 2020
News Article
... the Western world and global north holds all the power and resources – what we as Africans had was in fact enough to ... in philanthropy, helping invest in solutions realizing economic mobility for immigrants and refugees at World ... Not only was I anxious that my new role could be affected by potential shifts in these policies, but my life could be ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... Tirona speaks with Magaly Urdiales, Co-executive Director of the Western North Carolina Workers' Center . Read on as ... our community and different organizations, services, and resources that exist in the area. Our work starts with ... of popular education that we’ve developed. We start by supporting our workers to increase critical consciousness ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... continue to push for more inclusive and welcoming state and local policies for immigrants, refugees, and asylum ... (MPP), also known as “Remain in Mexico,” an array of cruel and ineffective asylum and immigration policies ... and effective asylum system. Philanthropy can help by supporting key strategies used by immigrant justice ...
July 14, 2022
Issue Spotlight
An emergency assistance fund for immigrant & undocumented workers in South Florida.
May 4, 2020
Response Fund
Immigration detention was dangerous before President Trump ... detention has expanded in the past decade, driven largely by large private prison companies such as CoreCivic and GEO ... medical experts, and organizers have built mountains of evidence that reveal the dark reality of immigration ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... United States received over 80,000 Afghan evacuees , many of whom were at added risk due to their association with the ... have been granted. It is a moral imperative that we stand by those most at risk, especially those we explicitly ... Afghan-led groups , such as Afghan Network for Advocacy & Resources (ANAR) and Afghans for a Better Tomorrow . As a ...
October 6, 2022
Issue Spotlight
... Marissa Tirona speaks with Katherine Perez , Director of the Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and ... campaign. We at CNLD felt the urgent need to work on immigration, and that’s how I came to the immigration ... address this problem—the schism between movements—is by supporting conferences like these to create intersectional ...
March 17, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... Borderland: The Line Within . The film follows the stories of Gabriela Castañeda and Kaxh Mur'al, two people who were ... United States – and whose paths eventually intersect. By following their stories, the invasiveness of and ... rights or working to counter the toxic narrative around immigration, please contact Skylight . GCIR · Amplify ...
May 30, 2024
GCIR Blog Series
... GCIR’s internal and external work. Comprised in 2023 of five staff members from different areas of the ... GCIR’s political education working group began by developing a learning agenda to deepen the team’s ... the year, the working group curated articles and resources that were shared with GCIR staff and board members ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
... and agriculture industries; industries severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has led to the loss of their homes, wages, and/or employment. At the same time, ... undocumented workers have been excluded from federally and state funded safety net programs. This comes at a time when ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
... million planned giving commitment from a project funded by the Progressive Multiplier Fund, is grappling with how ... current crisis provides an added sense of urgency to the state and local coalitions work that they are doing on the ... the philanthropic community must seriously consider moving resources into supporting a nonprofit stimulus package that ...
March 11, 2020
Blog Post
... for unaccompanied minors, ends the longstanding US policy of allowing individuals who present at a border the chance to ... for a week, is more stringent in some ways than the failed immigration bill covered by GCIR earlier this year , with the ACLU already announcing ...
June 5, 2024
Statement
This article is part of the Moving Forward on Immigration series that explores the future of immigration in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
COVID-19 financial relief —by and for immigrants. If you’re an immigrant experiencing hard times because of COVID-19, and you aren’t eligible for federal financial ...
October 1, 2020
Response Fund
... below. Progressives are getting ready to push Biden on immigration reform ...
December 11, 2020
News Article
... in the Rio Grande Valley who are unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and who urgently need to meet ... members who are facing critical situations. Forty percent of LUPE members are undocumented. El Valle has always had an ... to receive stimulus checks or benefits. Thousands of undocumented persons reside En El Valle de Rio Grande. The ...
May 4, 2020
Response Fund
October 15, 2020
News Article
... individuals from deportation. Current beneficiaries of the 11-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ... seven years, such as HR 1511 and S.2606, the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 . ... Finally, philanthropy should leverage its influence by amplifying the movement’s voice via its communications ...
September 14, 2023
Statement