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GCIR envisions a society in which everyone thrives no matter where they are born. Through our work with foundations across the country, we mobilize philanthropic resources to promote the protection, wellbeing, and inclusion of immigrant and refugee communities within our multiracial democracy. Our 2025 Public Policy agenda is informed by the tireless work of immigrant justice advocates across the country, and we encourage funders to resource the movement organizations and campaigns leading these efforts.
This initiative was established in 2017 in order to achieve two goals: to ensure that hard-to-count populations in California are accurately counted, and to build a stronger movement infrastructure across the state.
The California Immigrant Justice Infrastructure Fund seeks to invest in and strengthen a thriving power-building ecosystem that can address the immediate and long-term needs of immigrant, migrant, and refugee communities across California.
Becoming a GCIR member makes it possible for us to continue providing vital services to grantmakers and guide timely and strategic philanthropic responses to address the most pressing issues facing immigrants and refugees.
The California Dignity for Families Fund helps migrants at the border and newly arriving Afghan and Haitian migrants receive urgent humanitarian relief as they request asylum and resettle across the state.
One in four U.S. children lives in an immigrant family, and the next four years will bring unprecedented threats to their safety and wellbeing. From ongoing family separations and the threat of mass deportations, denial of basic services, and elimination of birthright citizenship, children living in immigrant families - 90 percent of whom are U.S. citizens - are already experiencing trauma.
California Dignity for Families Fund grantees.
On January 20th – a day meant to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – our nation will swear in a president who has relentlessly fanned the flames of racism, xenophobia, and division. In his first term, the president-elect kept his word on immigration: he said he was going to separate families, and he did, with thousands of children brutally locked in cages and kept from their parents. We also should believe him now, as he has made plain the intent to orchestrate the mass deportation of tens of millions of individuals and their families. It is a dystopian possibility to consider, with raids and roundups at houses of worship, schools, and hospitals – locations previously honored as “sensitive locations” and thus not subject to enforcement actions. However dark this vision, mass deportations are only one of a litany of anti-immigrant and anti-democratic plans the incoming administration has proposed.