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... vulnerable community in the United States. Immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers were among those whose lives ... the foreign-born; advanced aggressive and indiscriminate immigration enforcement; and terminated Deferred Action for ... Philanthropy to Stand with Immigrants and Refugees to learn more about how GCIR staff, members, ...
March, 2018
GCIR Annual Report
... organization focused on connecting immigrants and refugees to skill-aligned employment—is teaming up with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant Refugees (GCIR)—the nation’s philanthropy-mobilizing ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
... change in support of immigrants, migrants, and refugees includes combating the international systems of ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
... GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ANNOUNCES IVY SURIYOPAS WILL BE ITS NEW VICE ... of Programs at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), effective May 12, 2021. Suriyopas is a ... resources on the most pressing issues facing immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. In 2017, Inside Philanthropy ...
April 14, 2021
Press Release
In 2016, immigrants and refugees in the United States were catapulted to the center ... racist and xenophobic vitriol, pitting immigrants and refugees against other vulnerable communities. The year ... and rights violations looming large. In this volatile immigration policy landscape, GCIR provided the thought ...
April, 2017
GCIR Annual Report
... covers major policy developments for immigrants and refugees between 1990 and 2015, as well as the efforts over ... pages feature: Philanthropic Response to Immigrants and Refugees: Milestones and highlights from 25 years of the ... needs, uplift the contributions, and help immigrants and refugees reach their full potential. Immigrant and Refugee ...
January, 2016
Infographic
Throughout GCIR’s 30-year history, immigrants and refugees in the U.S. and across the globe have faced a ...
March, 2020
Infographic
... uplifting the contributions, and supporting immigrants and refugees in reaching their full potential. GCIR 25th ...
July, 2016
Video & Audio
... solutions realizing economic mobility for immigrants and refugees at World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund ... the results of America’s presidential election, and immigration policy was top of the agenda. Not only was I ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... year of intensifying policy attacks on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, as well as Black, Indigenous, ... to center racial justice , and pushed for inclusion of immigration in philanthropic discussions on racism. 2020 ...
July, 2021
GCIR Annual Report
... stakeholders and decision-makers to resource a robust immigration and refugee rights power-building ecosystem. We ...
March, 2024
GCIR Annual Report
... communities and galvanizes funders to resource a robust immigration and refugee rights power-building ecosystem. We ...
February, 2023
Organization Materials
... tough year for GCIR and for every organization working on immigration. The federal administration continued its campaign against immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers at our borders and in our ... accurate 2020 census count. We strategized with funders on refugees and asylum seekers, criminalization of immigrants, ...
September, 2019
GCIR Annual Report
In 2021, GCIR launched a process to develop a new strategy which reflects our evolution as a national philanthropic mobilizing organization that creates strategic opportunities to move money and power to immigrant and refugee communities. To that end, we asked the Luminare Group to design and facilitate a strategy development process that was inclusive, generative, and collaborative. It was important to us that we did not create this new framework in a vacuum, so we convened a dynamic group of movement leaders, funders, and experts whose perspectives are informed by varied experiences and roles within the social justice ecosystem.
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... administration began by undoing many racist and draconian immigration policies from the Trump era, including fortifying ... of constant fear. The potential for significant federal immigration relief was at its highest in decades. Yet, 2021 ... and transformative change on behalf of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. After more than three decades ...
April, 2022
GCIR Annual Report
... In light of the intensifying attacks on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, I want to keep you—our ... both on addressing urgent concerns facing immigrants and refugees and advancing an affirmative agenda with an eye ... we laid the groundwork for a project to examine immigration enforcement and detention in the context of ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... in the United States, directly targeting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers through inhumane policies and ... a case for long-term philanthropic commitment to funding immigration as a defining and cross-cutting issue of our ... for advancing long-term, high-impact grantmaking in the immigration space. These efforts informed our thinking about ...
March, 2020
GCIR Annual Report
... 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
... political context, and the critical role immigrants and refugees play across our social justice movements. Throughout ... in those doing the work led by and for immigrants and refugees. The conference also included site visits that ... detention centers, and show solidarity with immigrants and refugees. I returned from GCIR’s convening with tools, ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post