Make the Road New York's COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund will provide direct support to our most vulnerable workers and low-income immigrant families, and to organize to ensure they are not left out of government solutions.
April 24, 2020
Response Fund
GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun, Executive Director of Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California, an organization working for gender, racial, and economic justice through community and power building efforts led by Southeast Asian young women.
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... All eligible individuals are encouraged to consult with an immigration attorney to apply for, or renew, their DACA ... Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) at Yale Law School, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and lawyers at MRNY. The ... and deporting thousands, to severely restricting lawful immigration, to militarizing the border. At the insistence of ...
June 18, 2020
Press Release
... Tribal Governments, K-12 schools, County Offices of Education, community-based organizations, state agencies and ...
April 9, 2020
Blog Post
... for Latino families in Alabama. Arizona: Mi Familia Vota Education Fund is a national organization that helps to ... community and by fostering leadership through advocacy and education. Georgia : Latino Community Foundation of Georgia ... builds power among workers of color through organizing, education, and direct action, from an intersectional ...
April 1, 2020
Response Fund
... As a former lawyer who focused on asylum issues, immigration detention has always struck me as one of the cruelest and most inhumane features of our immigration system. Even when immigrant detainees are not ... of AB32. Cutting back the number of facilities means less immigration enforcement. Hamid Yazdan Panah, who has directed ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
... support for many aspects of that agenda. As American Immigration Council ’s Jorge Loweree observed when asked about the failed bipartisan immigration deal, “Advocating for stricter immigration policy, regardless of the actual results, is just ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... huge risk they'll be left out in the cold. The New York Immigration Coalition has launched the #NYunited Fund to ...
May 4, 2020
Response Fund
... of immigrants in California who are still subject to harsh immigration enforcement and detention, increasing their ... children. Ensure that all immigrants, regardless of their immigration status, have access to COVID-19 information, ... units in hard-to-reach communities. Halt the expansion of immigration detention in the state, suspend the transfer of ...
April 9, 2020
Blog Post
Today, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While the decision was made on procedural grounds and not on the merits of the program, it nevertheless provides a reprieve for 650,000 immigrants and their families, including more than 250,000 U.S.-citizen children.
June 18, 2020
Statement
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 human devastation, and the attacks that are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. I called on philanthropy to dream big and act with courage because we can only combat these injustices if we have a vision that surpasses the opposition’s in ambition and scope.
June 5, 2019
President's Message
COVID-19 lockdowns make it even more challenging to ensure hard-to-count populations are accurately represented in the 2020 Census.
April 9, 2020
Commentary
... own statistics. These parents are still languishing in immigration detention without information about the ... TX Kate Vickery, MPA, MSCRP, Executive Director Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative Houston, TX Randy ... New York, NY Nick Donohue, President & CEO Nellie Mae Education Foundation Quincy, MA Michele Lord, President NEO ...
June 13, 2018
Statement
November 2, 2020
Press Release
... election about taking a public stance against Trump’s immigration policies. Some funders were keen to have their ...
February 6, 2017
Philanthropic News
... They need to reopen the program." US Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Department Homeland ... has been updated with comment from US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Judge orders Trump administration to ...
July 17, 2020
News Article
A letter from Unbound Philanthropy to its grantees about the COVID-19 outbreak.
March 16, 2020
Statement
April 15, 2020
Press Release
... Mexico,” an array of cruel and ineffective asylum and immigration policies still stand, foremost among them Title ... at GCIR we are hosting a program on strengthening the immigration legal services infrastructure on July 20th as a follow-up to our recently released report Immigration Legal Services in California: A Time for Bold ...
July 14, 2022
Issue Spotlight
Many of our immigrant community members work in temporary or low-wage jobs without access to sick leave, unemployment or the ability to work remotely. Immigrants, many of them undocumented, do essential work that sustains us all.
April 24, 2020
Response Fund