... year, we shared with you GCIR’s new state and local framework , a development that reflects our evolution as a ... expressed a desire for GCIR’s California Immigrant Integration Initiative to leverage its relationships with ... the first in-person gathering of the California Immigrant Integration Initiative after three years of virtual meetings, ...
July 19, 2023
Blog Post
... judicial review. National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a special registry targeting Muslim men and ... and Solidarity: Islamophobia, the U.S. Immigration System, and the Impact on BAMEMSA Communities ...
September 13, 2021
President's Message
... and to strengthen the network that is conducting immigrant integration efforts. Hosted at the Mexican Consulate of Los ... the country to learn about each other’s work on economic integration and dispel myths about each sector (consulates, ... needs and plans for increasing coordination of immigrant integration efforts. The seeds sown during this convening ...
February 17, 2017
Commentary
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
... It was important to us that we did not create this new framework in a vacuum, so we convened a dynamic group of ... transformative change that is possible. With a draft framework in hand, the GCIR team test drove emerging concepts ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... new collaboratives by year's end. California Immigrant Integration Initiative (CIII): We continue to help ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... the bill would create a “merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers and taxpayers.” The ... the country’s current employer- and family-centered system with a points-based program , awarding immigrants ... are, collectively they have crippled the legal immigration system and choked the flow of newcomers into the United ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
... in need of protection will attempt to access our asylum system, as is their right per U.S. and international law. It ...
May 11, 2023
Statement
More than 40 leading California foundations signed this statement in support of DACA following the program's cancellation.
September 16, 2017
Statement
Drawing on reflections from a recent GCIR webinar about the value of learning in grantmakin, GCIR's Programs Learning Manager Anduriña Espinoza-Wasil explains that learning for evaluation purposes is not a one-time event at the end of a grant period, but a powerful process that is ongoing. There is an important relationship between learning and strategy, the ways learning processes can hold us accountable to the communities we serve, and how funders can start learning now.
September 9, 2024
Blog Post
Today, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While the decision was made on procedural grounds and not on the merits of the program, it nevertheless provides a reprieve for 650,000 immigrants and their families, including more than 250,000 U.S.-citizen children.
June 18, 2020
Statement
... based on a lack of understanding of how the immigration system operates and exacerbated by disinformation campaigns. ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system . Health care workers include “Healthcare ...
April 6, 2020
News Article
... Data-informed, not data driven. As I develop the learning framework and include metrics on what can help us define ... and ability status, inevitably affects the learning framework. The same goes for others who I engage in the ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... that demand our attention. Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife opened my eyes to the complex and ... new was getting a close-up look at a byzantine immigration system that makes it extremely difficult for immigrants of ... or stay in the country. If everyone understood how the system actually works, no one would exclaim, as so many ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... we sometimes struggle to navigate what the nonprofit system requires in a capitalist context while following our ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... to suffer from mass unemployment, a strain on the medical system and hospital infrastructure, and we will have a ...
April 9, 2020
Commentary
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
... The public charge rule is demonstrative of how our system is rooted in and inextricably linked with ableism. ... on reimagining the whole foundational elements of this system. Healthcare policy is another huge issue. I teach ...
March 17, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... payments, and any future stimulus support. Everyone who files tax returns, regardless of immigration status, should ...
April 16, 2020
News Article
