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... While national headlines are dominated by federal immigration policy —family separation, the border ... to expand access to driver’s licenses and higher education, to working to limit local police collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to advancing fair ...
December 10, 2019
Webinar
Find all program-related materials for the "Black Immigrant Leadership: Sustaining and Building Movements for Justice" webinar here.
April, 2021
Program Materials
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
... 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 ... over decades to develop an expansive playbook for reducing immigration by people of color. These hate groups often frame ...
September 23, 2020
Statement
March 11, 2020
... of New York and the Russell Sage Foundation Conference on Immigration and Immigrant Integration, originally scheduled ... by this initiative. Harvard University sociologist and immigration scholar Mary Waters will be the keynote speaker. ... ideas about what it means to be American, how increased immigration enforcement has affected crime, job opportunities ...
September 24, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
Over 70 foundations have signed a joint statement on immigration in the wake of President Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim countries. The statement, ... diversity and equality noting that ‘the recently issued immigration executive orders compromise our nation’s ...
February 8, 2017
Philanthropic News
Description Despite the highly polarized nature of federal immigration policy debates, most agree that once immigrants ... economic, and social life of their new communities. Adult education services offered through a federal-state ... to grant makers in the anti-poverty, economic mobility and immigration policy fields, and a discussion of actions that ...
October 11, 2018
Co-Sponsored Program
... trends and develop recommendations in the areas of education, immigration relief, criminal justice, and more. As the report ... details, Immigrants Rising outlined new best practices for immigration legal service providers; exciting new demographic ...
December, 2019
Report
... Kamal Essaheb , Director of Policy & Advocacy, National Immigration Law Center The Rev. Mary K. "Kaki" ... Tom K. Wong , Associate Professor of Political Science, Immigration Politics and Policy, University of California, ... 2017. DACA Update: Five Things You Should Know, National Immigration Law Center , August 25, 2017. Potential ...
September 14, 2017
Monthly Immigration Policy Call
... and housing assistance programs for fear of potential immigration consequences, as well as radically reshape how we ... our pluralistic democracy through the rewriting of our immigration system by fiat. The tremendous amount of ... short term, resourcing the field to engage in community education and outreach, as well as bolstering legal services ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Building a Multi-Racial Democracy by Investing in Immigrant and Refugee Movements Before, During, and After Elections" here, including the session recording, transcript, and other materials shared.
August, 2024
Program Materials
Earlier this month, the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund shared its ... —to our partners, to immigrant workers, to workforce and education service providers, to advocates, and to other ... evolve, every facet of society, from public health to education access to the local economy, has been vastly ...
April 30, 2020
Response Fund
... center organizers, and funders about how labor-based immigration relief has enhanced efforts to uphold workplace ... Join philanthropic partners from across the workforce and immigration fields to learn about opportunities to align and ...
August 12, 2024
Co-Sponsored Program
... We also invite funders to join us in our own political education about forced displacement, as we seek to understand ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
... commitment to ensure all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, are included in citywide COVID-19 ... We must make sure that everyone in our city, regardless of immigration status, has access to the support they need," ... Response Effort to support New York City Department of Education's (DOE) school communities during this challenging ...
April 16, 2020
Response Fund
... Initiative at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, working at the intersection of migrants’, ... areas: program and policy strategy and development, funder education and engagement, and funder mobilizing and ...
April 14, 2021
Press Release
May 12, 2022
America needs a 21st-century immigration system that advances the economic, security, and ... contributions to our society. It must encourage legal immigration and its significant benefits to the American ... the economic interests of those already here. A working immigration system can help unite our country through our ...
November 11, 2020
Commentary
... help our immigrant friends, neighbors, and coworkers whose immigration status puts them in danger of hunger, ...
April 15, 2020
Response Fund