... It also addresses how the U.S. government modified its immigration policies and practices accordingly. In line with ... migration flows. We hope this timeline prompts reflection about what it looks like to support migrant populations so ... timeline , we are examining and expanding how we think about migration. In the context of historical harms that have ...
September, 2024
Data Tool
... Are you a new GCIR member? Or simply want to learn about everything GCIR can offer your institution? Join us for our inaugural 'New Member' orientation webinar to learn about all the ways you can plug into GCIR’s dynamic funder ...
August 16, 2018
Webinar
... In his first term, the president-elect kept his word on immigration: he said he was going to separate families, and ... from funders that takes seriously the threat before us in this moment. While it is important to be clear-eyed about the challenges we face, we have a large and active ...
January, 2025
Funding Recommendations
... to author their own experience, and narrative power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made ... Hearts and Minds .” We also invite funders to join us in our own political education about forced displacement, as we seek to understand better ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
Upwardly Global—a leading workforce development organization focused on connecting immigrants and refugees to skill-aligned employment—is teaming up with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant Refugees (GCIR)—the nation’s philanthropy-mobilizing organization focused on advancing immigrant and refugee justice—to address and dismantle systemic barriers that immigrant women of color face to economic security. The partnership is made possible due to a grant from Pivotal Ventures, and directly aligns with their goal of advancing social progress for women and families in the United States.
April 26, 2022
Press Release
... funders focused on the needs of newcomers. To learn more about becoming a GCIR member and the benefits of membership, ...
Organization Materials
... Juárez, Chihuahua, Detroit and Windsor collectively have about two million residents across the binational region. ... away from) the United States over time. To learn more about GCIR's Im/Migration Timeline Project, you can view our ... Migration in the Americas . We invite you to learn more about Detroit's fascinating history as a migration ...
October, 2024
Infographic
This four-page timeline summarizes immigrant and refugee policy developments and philanthropic responses from 1990 to 2020.
March, 2020
Infographic
This two-page infographic covers major policy developments for immigrants and refugees between 1990 and 2015, as well as the efforts over that time period by GCIR, our members, and partners.
January, 2016
Infographic
... support for many aspects of that agenda. As American Immigration Council ’s Jorge Loweree observed when asked about the failed bipartisan immigration deal, “Advocating ... policy developments at the state and local levels. Cities, counties, and states can often create more welcoming ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... equity, and inclusion in the long term. At GCIR, we talk about doing our work in a networked way, and we could not ... along the way. The strength of those partnerships helped us create strategic opportunities to move money and power to ... stakeholders and decision-makers to resource a robust immigration and refugee rights power-building ecosystem. In ...
October, 2024
GCIR Annual Report
This four-minute video features GCIR board members talking about the role the organization played in addressing the ...
July, 2016
Video & Audio
... for Families Fund, also launched today. To learn more about the Fund, visit www.gcir.org/CADignityFund . Led by ... initiative. “California’s diversity makes us a more vibrant and resilient state, and we are a better ... to deploy nearly $80 million to build local capacity for immigration legal services, advocacy, and organizing. GCIR ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... the organization’s and our key partners’ best thinking about how to address the problem at hand; namely, that racial ... learning on absolutely everything. This principle is about being strategic about the use of our resources for ... learning framework and include metrics on what can help us define success, I am cautious not to let numbers have the ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... serving Black migrant communities. You can learn more about the Fund from the June 2nd webinar GCIR co-hosted with ... learnings from these early “plantings,” we are excited about new projects we are sowing, including our partnership ... cooperatives. If you are interested in learning more about this project – or other work that we are sowing and ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... generative, and collaborative. It was important to us that we did not create this new framework in a vacuum, so ... journey with you, and we are eager to hear from you about what you think of our new theory of change. What resonates with you? What are you curious about? What role might you play in helping us achieve the ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... the opportunity to lead this area of work. For those of us now wrapping up the first one-year term of the working ... the end of each quarter. Several key insights emerged about how imperialism, anti-Blackness, racial capitalism, and ... is deeply rooted in our societal structures, including our immigration system, and how this has an insidious impact that ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "The Value of Learning in Grantmaking to Migrant Communities" here, including the session recording, transcription of the meeting, and relevant links.
August, 2024
Program Materials
... She joins Efrain Escobedo , Vice President, Education and Immigration, at the California Community Foundation , who ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
