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Below are all program-related materials for GCIR's 2022 National Convening workshop, "Black Immigrants and the Fight for Racial Justice." ...
May, 2022
Program Materials
Find all program-related materials for GCIR Webinar, "A Call to Action: Investing in Black Leadership for Migrant and Racial Justice" here, ...
June, 2022
Program Materials
... racism and racial terror that most recently took the lives of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna ... be rectified, GCIR stands in steadfast solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters as an ally in the fight for racial ... of color. We double down to combat anti-Black racism in immigrant communities, the immigrant justice movement, and ...
June 1, 2020
Statement
Description While Black-led immigrant and refugee organizations have long confronted ... longstanding inequities. Called upon to meet the needs of their communities and to lead in multiple movement roles ...
April 12, 2021
Webinar
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar, "BIPOC Communites' Response to Rising White ... here, including program recording and powerpoint. Materials: BIPOC Communities' Response to Rising White ...
August, 2022
Program Materials
This op-ed was originally published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy on September 23, 2020. The undersigned ... Indigenous families and the slave trade that devastated Black families. As philanthropy confronts our country’s history of genocide and slavery, our sector must also wrestle ...
September 23, 2020
Statement
... Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's recent analysis of Candid data found that merely 1.3% of foundation funding for the pro-immigrant, pro-refugee movement in the U.S. goes to groups whose primary focus is Black migrant communities, even though Black immigrants are ...
June 2, 2022
Webinar
... returned, he shared with me a photo he took on his phone of the Tribute in Light—twin beams that reach up to four ... 9/11 unleashed violence, discrimination, and hatred toward Black, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian (BAMEMSA) ... and cultural strategies that amplify the resilience and strength of BAMEMSA communities. Invest in policy advocacy ...
September 13, 2021
President's Message
... ties to white supremacist organizations killed six people in an Oak Creek Sikh temple, and August 3rd marks three years ... the mass murder was a "response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas." Many other instances of mass violence in recent ... be distinct attacks, the current moment is part of a long history of nativism in the United States. One historian notes ...
August 4, 2022
Webinar
... moment of reckoning for our country with a legacy of anti-Black racism that continues to permeate our society. While ... this implicit and explicit bias for greater impact. Black History Month: Diversity and Strength of the Black Immigrant ...
June, 2020
Resource Portal, Video & Audio
... mass shootings in Atlanta on March 16 that took the lives of eight individuals—six of whom were Asian women—drew ... the Covid-19 pandemic are the latest attacks in a long history of discrimination, harassment, scapegoating, and ... And we believe philanthropy has a vital role to play. This month, GCIR will host a webinar to amplify the work and ...
April 7, 2021
Issue Spotlight
... a critical conversation on centering racial justice in the immigrant justice movement. As our country faces a national reckoning on race and anti-Black racism, immigrant rights funders stand in an ... alliances across movements, to center the leadership of Black immigrants and refugees within our movement, and to ...
October 22, 2020
Webinar
While there has been a long history of efforts to erase and exclude immigrants, BIPOC, and other ... BIPOC communities organizing to end the criminalization of Black and Brown lives, people have sought to protect their ...
May, 2022
Infographic
Description Dynamic immigrant leadership and civic engagement is playing an ... in the South—a region that is home to a growing number of immigrants but that has relatively limited philanthropic ... Gigi Pedraza , Executive Director and Founder, Latino Community Fund Georgia More info to follow. Registration ...
May 19, 2021
Webinar
... the new Children Thrive Action Network (CTAN). The mission of CTAN is to defend and support children in the United States in mixed-status immigrant families by engaging service providers and ...
July 1, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
Dear Colleagues, MMT_209x250.jpg Earlier this month, I attended the world premiere of Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in ... currently reading articles about the connections between Black liberation and immigrant justice and the ways in which ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
... earlier this week, which were direct consequences of the divisive rhetoric and oppressive policies promulgated ... white supremacy, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiment. What we witnessed in D.C.—and in state ... country is at a choice point. Will we build the power of Black, Brown, indigenous, and immigrant communities to bring ...
January 8, 2021
Statement
... public health and economic crisis and the murders of Black Americans by police, have laid bare the deep ... leaders and in solidarity with dozens of labor, community organizing, faith-based, policy, research, and ...
July 9, 2020
Philanthropic News
Quarterly meeting of GCIR’s national network of state and local funding collaboratives ... that coordinate local investments to strengthen immigrant and refugee communities. Note that DOTD meetings ...
May 12, 2021
Group Meeting
By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President Dear Colleagues: In January 2019 , I reflected on the extreme anti-immigrant policies that have come out of the White House over the past two years, the resulting ...
June 5, 2019
President's Message