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... invested and leveraged more than $42 million for outreach, education, and legal services to ensure that eligible ... from deportation, DACA recipients furthered their education, pursued careers, and enriched the civic and ... of DACA beneficiaries surveyed indicated that they work in education or health care, which could mean a loss of ...
September 9, 2017
Statement
... farmworkers by addressing the inadequate levels of health education on COVID-19, the lack of access to health care, and ...
April 4, 2020
News Article
What do we hope to accomplish? What will success look like? What will it take to get there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs Learning Manager. My position is new, reflecting the organization’s commitment to proactive learning throughout our work. In a nutshell, I aim to support the team in building evaluative capacity, including through the design (and constant iteration) of ways of working that make it easy for people to engage meaningfully in learning processes.
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... of the board. She joins Efrain Escobedo , Vice President, Education and Immigration, at the California Community Foundation , who ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
October 15, 2020
News Article
Emerging leader scholarship receipeint, Joél Junior Morales, reflects on his experience at GCIR's 2022 convening in Houston.
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... countries can also drive migration. Immigrant women whose immigration status is dependent on their partners and women ... or an added layer of vulnerability due to their immigration status – funders can invest in housing, employment training, and community education programs that inform them of their rights. ...
April 4, 2023
Issue Spotlight
... be guided by the input of those directly impacted by immigration in addition to the perspectives and insights of ... immigrant communities due to a lack of understanding that immigration is a cross-cutting issue which intersects with other marginalized identities and priorities like education, housing, health, and employment. Addressing this ...
July 19, 2023
Blog Post
... 2017 DACA rescission memorandum, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has taken no public steps to ... have made great strides ; they have pursued higher education, advanced their careers, enlisted in the military ...
July 13, 2020
News Article
... what it does best: designing learning spaces for political education that center anti-racism, internationalism, and the ... that have been historically excluded from the immigration funding space, including disability justice ... Status (TPS) for 18 months. According to the American Immigration Council, of the 344,000 Ukrainian immigrants in ...
March 24, 2022
President's Message
... success—allowing beneficiaries to pursue further education, earn a better living, and support their ... New Way Forward , which seeks to disentangle the U.S. immigration and criminal justice systems. Fund immigration legal services programs that will be called on ...
July 21, 2021
Statement
... 15 states working to expand legal services, outreach and education, advocacy, and more. In addition to supporting ... we laid the groundwork for a project to examine immigration enforcement and detention in the context of ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
More than 40 leading California foundations signed this statement in support of DACA following the program's cancellation.
September 16, 2017
Statement
... my younger sister is autistic and went through special education and confronted a lot of discrimination. I ... campaign. We at CNLD felt the urgent need to work on immigration, and that’s how I came to the immigration space. We had no money, but we had power ...
March 17, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... that end, late last year we launched a staff-led Political Education Working group which is developing a learning agenda ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
... Africa, many in countries where they are denied work and education and have no formal status. The United States has ...
November 12, 2020
News Article
... have limited their ability to seek other forms of immigration relief that would allow them to stay in the U.S., ... or receive another form of relief, they will lose their immigration status and be vulnerable to deportation. The ... we can afford to conduct business as usual. While many immigration funders are answering the call to respond to the ...
March 18, 2024
Commentary
... building, storytelling, narrative change, and public education. KH Interview Pull Quote 1.png Since 2014, ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... when immigrant communities were already threatened by anti-immigration policies like public charge. UndocuFund ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
... filed a change to a long-standing tenet of federal immigration law that will endanger the health and well-being ...
December 6, 2018
Statement