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One month after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed over 2,200 Haitians and left ... policy, migrants are being sent back to a country reeling from overlapping crises and decades of political upheaval and ... of protest. Haitian and Black-led organizations are on the front lines of this response, providing humanitarian ...
October 7, 2021
Issue Spotlight
... at podium.jpeg Maria Ibarra-Frayre speaks to a crowd from a podium. In our latest interview, Maria shares how her ... Podcast: We the People Michigan's Maria Ibarra-Frayre on Why Funding Community Organizing is Crucial to our ... 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
... sure each and every one of us—native and newcomer—has resources to prevail through the outbreak. No one stands ... Petsod of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees joined NCG’s Emily Katz to explain how the ... has been convening an informal group of foundation CEOs on immigration issues over the past 3.5 years, and at a ...
May 1, 2020
Blog Post
... Castañeda and Kaxh Mur'al, two people who were driven from their home countries to seek security in the United ... credit: "Finally See the Light," written by Bryan Teoh on freepd.com . Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal Public ... with the Skylight team. On their vision for the next 5-7 years and how narrative power-building will help realize ...
May 30, 2024
GCIR Blog Series
Statement Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) joins a growing chorus within philanthropy ... as a unifying force in defiance of racism and deploy resources needed to protect our democracy and bring about ... There are no simple solutions. But all of us can take on the task of speaking up and denouncing acts of hatred." ...
August 10, 2017
Statement
... are unable to complete the asylum application process on their own and end up missing the application deadline. ... As we learned in our last newsletter , many migrants from Mexico and Central America do not speak Spanish and only ... are moved to invest in efforts to ensure that immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers have access to the legal ...
August 30, 2023
Response Fund
... enable this behavior and also hold those responsible—from the president to members of the House and Senate to ... their actions, whether during a Congressional roll call or on the Capitol steps. Our country is at a choice point. Will ... security of those movements and organizations working on the front lines to build enduring social change. We all ...
January 8, 2021
Statement
... home countries. Maybe you are a parent to a school-age child. Or perhaps you have a young relative or neighbor. The ... • Risking kidnapping, trafficking, and death on their journey to the U.S. Needs of Unaccompanied Children ... up with treatment. But despite these limited existing resources and services, Hannah Chotiner-Gardner of KIND ...
November 6, 2023
Response Fund
... is still being grown, packaged, cooked, shipped, and put on the shelves of grocery stores; patients are being cared ... to provide a sense of well-being and continuity to America’s youngest generation remotely. Such roles are ... the hundreds of thousands of teachers who have pivoted from the physical to the digital classroom , including 4,300 ...
April 6, 2020
News Article
... especially for migrants whose legal status is based on their employer. The T Visa – a humanitarian visa for ... to resource and amplify the leadership of immigrants and refugees and take bold action toward our collective ... until the end of April. Access it here . ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WE RECOMMEND Recent articles and videos related to ...
April 10, 2025
Blog Post
... and welcoming state and local policies for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, the fundamental right to seek ... for months or even years, advocates are calling on Congress and the administration to use all the tools at ... these strategies. Here at GCIR we are hosting a program on strengthening the immigration legal services ...
July 14, 2022
Issue Spotlight
April 15, 2020
Press Release
... Law, Policy, and Innovation at Loyola Law School. Read on as Katherine shares her thoughts about building power for ... woman and the first in my immediate family to graduate from college. I developed a deep sense of disability justice ... disability justice at all—there wasn’t a single class on the topic. I wanted to do for disability issues what ...
March 17, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... (HIP) and Grantmakers Concerned with Imigrants and Refugees (GCIR). This delegation traveled to McAllen, Texas, ... trip delegation. The learning trip left a lasting impact on Lincoln Mondy , a program officer at the Andrus Family ... and designed to separate families, designed to have a default of whiteness, have a default of what an American ...
June 3, 2024
Blog Post
... fund, California philanthropy and Governor Newsom build on the success of their partnership in 2020, when they ... Foundation is proud to be part of this effort.” “TCE is pleased to join our philanthropic colleagues in ... helping to receive, disburse, and manage these critical resources to get them to heavily impacted border regions and ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... oppression that inflict harm upon and withhold power and resources from people who seek to stay, move freely, work, transform, ... Ventures , GCIR launched work in early 2022 focused on designing and implementing funder education, strategic ...
July 9, 2024
President's Message
... The fourth consecutive year of escalating policy attacks on immigrants and many other marginalized communities. A ... broader philanthropic sector. As our country enters the final countdown to the most important election in modern ... courage, conviction, and hope. Together, we will fight on. The future of our country depends on us. "Vote Like Your ...
October 13, 2020
President's Message
... as the convening site, we aimed to shine a spotlight on the challenges facing immigrants in Texas, which has some ... and organizations who have been historically excluded from philanthropic investment, including trans migrants, ... on the Black Migrant Power Fund , a new fund driving resources to groups serving Black migrant communities. You ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... CA - Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) today announced a new $10 million challenge ... California Immigrant Resilience Fund. The Fund, launched on April 15, 2020 in partnership with California ... . “Our Foundation believes that those of us with the resources have the obligation to step up and help those who ...
May 11, 2020
Press Release
Over 70 foundations have signed a joint statement on immigration in the wake of President Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim countries. The statement, published by Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) focuses on the fact that America was built ...
February 8, 2017
Philanthropic News