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... to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging leader in ... play across our social justice movements. Throughout the convening, I heard from leaders who shared their powerful ... on issues that directly impact their communities. In the session “Advocating for Immigrants at the Border”, ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... this opportunity. GCIR had hired an amazing organizational transition consultant (who happened to also be my long-time ... affirmative long-term vision reflecting our evolution as a national philanthropic mobilizing organization that shapes ... move money and power to immigrant and refugee communities Convening movement leaders, funders, government actors, and ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... some of those early plantings in the last few months. 2022 Convening One significant way in which our collective ... New Theory of Change When I stepped into this role in late 2020, I focused on leading an inclusive process to develop ... requires dismantling white supremacy at the global and national levels. Our work is now, it is generational, and it ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... endeavor to examine funding trends; analyze global, national, and state developments; and engage a wide range of ... will celebrate our 30 th anniversary next year at our 2020 National Convening on March 11-13 in Atlanta, Georgia. This ...
June 5, 2019
President's Message
... Ciudad Juárez, and the deployment of Mexico's National Guard as it militarizes its own southern border and ... Muslim Ban ) and cruel ( family separation ). Beginning in 2020, our nation largely shut down our refugee and ... and oppression of migrants , and responses to events like the end of Title 42 should be grounded in both an ...
May 11, 2023
Statement
... asylum seekers,” said Kevin Douglas, senior director of national programs at GCIR. GCIR’s delegation, which ...
April 11, 2024
Blog Post
... war. As we face these real and existential global and national threats daily, many of us are dealing with grief and ... between imperialism and forced migration. GCIR’s 2022 National Convening In May, our biennial convening will launch in ...
March 24, 2022
President's Message
All of us at GCIR grieve for the lives lost in Christchurch, New Zealand, and stand in support of their families and Muslim communities across the world. We see you, we mourn with you, and our hearts are breaking along with yours.
March 15, 2019
Statement
... organizers had a lot planned. They hoped that in-person events, including house parties, bus tours and independent ... executive director of the Bauman Foundation. Bass chairs a national collaborative of funders that has extended crucial ... together around a plan to support an accurate census in 2020. From those initial conversations grew an informal ...
April 9, 2020
Commentary
... develop a new strategy which reflects our evolution as a national philanthropic mobilizing organization that creates ... GCIR team test drove emerging concepts and values at our convening in Houston last May and through our programs and ... - the impact of which is felt at the local, state, and national levels - and that GCIR must develop strategies that ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... Connecting the Dots and Seeing the Big Picture 2020 Census : We support and coordinate a statewide table of ... to discuss funding strategies and priorities. At the national level, we work closely with the Funders Census ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... the immigrant justice movement. To this end, at our recent national convening in Houston, we released our formal public policy ... goals. Staff Feature: Kevin Douglas, Senior Director of National Programs ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... and in receiving communities in California. The Fund’s national counterpart, the Dignity for Families Fund, also ... Newsom build on the success of their partnership in 2020, when they provided a combined $150 million in emergency ... million in response to anti-immigrant federal policies. In 2020, GCIR launched the California Immigrant Resilience Fund, ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... memorandum to remove undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census apportionment count, Grantmakers Concerned with ... struck down this ploy to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Once again, we will not be deterred from ... two years to support non-partisan, non-political Census 2020 efforts. Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and ...
July 23, 2020
Statement
... to Charlottesville, and what our funders are saying National Committee on Responsive Philanthropy: Wealthy ...
August 10, 2017
Statement
... of the United States Joseph Biden called for national unity in his victory speech on November 7. He said ... below. Immigration Advocates Can Have a Role in Advancing National Unity ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
The National UndocuFund will provide financial assistance to ... term relief to an undocumented person or family in need. National UndocuFund ...
April 17, 2020
Response Fund
... bill that would extend two key statutory deadlines for the 2020 Census by four months and require the Census Bureau to continue field operations through October 31, 2020. Delays in census operations due to the COVID-19 ... 200 groups have endorsed the legislation, including the National Association of Counties, U.S. Conference of Mayors, ...
September 15, 2020
Press Release
... communities in the future.” "During this moment of national crisis, undocumented immigrants are risking their ...
April 15, 2020
Press Release