Join us for a timely discussion with experts from the climate justice movement on their strategies for building climate resilience in the South and learn how philanthropy can invest in transformative solutions to lessen the harms of climate change on immigrants and BIPOC communities.
August 22, 2023
Webinar
Resources from GCIR's 2022 National Convening workshop, "Building AAPI Immigrant Power in Houston."
May, 2022
Program Materials
... and level of expertise; explore the latest research on immigration’s impacts, whether economic, educational, or ... coordination. Themes and Issues Amid federal inaction on immigration reform, state and local policymakers have ... debates has influenced public discourse around immigration, and role of Latino voters and the rising ...
May 3, 2016
National Convening
... hope and opportunity for all. In this affirmative vision, immigration legal services are a vital component of a larger ... (CIII) launched a study to understand the capacity of immigration legal services in California and generate ... This report offers recommendations to strengthen immigration legal services in California for immigrants and ...
February, 2020
Report
Resources from GCIR's 2022 National Convening plenary, "Moving Money and Power: Investing in Immigrant Leadership."
May, 2022
Program Materials
... Episode 4 of the immediately acclaimed Netflix docuseries Immigration Nation with filmmakers Shaul Schwarz and ... and Saket Soni, Cynthia Hernandez of Resilience Force. Immigration Nation is a six-part series that the New York Times calls a "rare look inside Trump's immigration crackdown (official trailer here).” The ...
August 18, 2020
Webinar
Recent demographic trends and a rapidly changing immigration policy landscape, including rising federal immigration enforcement, have important implications for ... immigrants may also enter the child welfare system if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests, detains, ...
April, 2019
Report
... racism are long overdue, and they must expand to include immigration because the two issues are inextricably linked. ... sector must also wrestle with hundreds of years of racist immigration policies — from the 1790 law that allowed only ... no mistake: Masquerading behind innocuous terms such as “demographics” and “economics” are the same xenophobia ...
September 23, 2020
Statement
... Foundation Kate Vickery , Executive Director, Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative Aryah Somers ... Bar Association Hurricane Harvey Resources , Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative Huracán Harvey - ...
September 18, 2017
Webinar
... up to support our undocumented friends and neighbors whose immigration status puts them in danger of hunger, ... to deploy nearly $80 million to build local capacity for immigration legal services, advocacy, and organizing. ...
May 11, 2020
Press Release
... and their family during this crisis, regardless of immigration status,” added Tegan Acton, President of ... of California owes in large measure to the steady flow of immigration into our state,” said Dr. Thomas Peters, ... to deploy nearly $80 million to build local capacity for immigration legal services, advocacy, and organizing. GCIR ...
April 15, 2020
Press Release
... (She requested KQED not use her real name because of her immigration status and to call her Patricia instead.) The $2 ... insurance are available to workers regardless of their immigration status. But those benefits don’t help the vast ... and results in massive layoffs, workers who lack legal immigration status are particularly vulnerable, said Derek ...
March 31, 2020
News Article
... and innovative approaches to addressing changing demographics, the role of local government, and ... Communications Campaigns Navigating Race and Immigration: A Roadmap for Funders Shaking Up Our Usual ... , by Luis Montoya 10:15 am – 11:45 am State of Play: Immigration Policy Update for Philanthropy 11:45 am – 12:05 ...
May 20, 2014
National Convening
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of Immigrant Workers in Rural Communities" here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.
December, 2022
Program Materials
... divest from criminalization, the nation must divest from immigration enforcement. With some grassroots success at the ... immigrants into the pipeline of deportation coupled with immigration detention. This mass criminalization comes out of ... 59% versus 33%. Because of the size of the jail and the demographics of the county, it is not surprising that Harris ...
Issue Brief
This powerpoint accompanied our September 18 webinar on the challenges facing immigrant and refugee communities after natural disasters.
September, 2017
Presentation
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Welcoming Houston: Providing Support to new Immigrants in Texas" here, including session recording and powerpoint.
November, 2022
Program Materials
... the foreign-born; advanced aggressive and indiscriminate immigration enforcement; and terminated Deferred Action for ...
March, 2018
GCIR Annual Report
October, 2021
Program Materials
Open Society Foundations and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees commissioned this report as part of a larger effort to make resources, knowledge, and infrastructure developed during the pandemic known to grantmakers responding to future economic disruptions. Stand Together describes Covid-19 direct relief funds for undocumented immigrants and records promising practices for crisis grantmaking in immigrant communities.
October, 2021
Report