GCIR is closely monitoring the impact of the 2020 election on immigrants and refugees, with a focus on how philanthropy and leaders in the field are addressing this impact.
This discussion will examine how California funders can coordinate their power-building strategies and is open only to members of the California Immigrant Integration Initiative (CIII).
April 29, 2021
Group Meeting
GCIR’s Biennial National Convening will take place May 10-12, 2021, at the Hotel ZaZa in the Museum District of Houston, Texas.
Join us for philanthropy's foremost conference on immigrant and refugee issues. The convening brings together the sector’s leading voices and advocates with the aim of giving funders new tools and renewed enthusiasm to guide their immigrant- and refugee-related grantmaking.
May 10, 2022
National Convening
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's "A Decade of DOTD: Building the Movement through Funder Collaboration" webinar here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.
January, 2023
Program Materials
... residency and citizenship. • Support those in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and ... language. Liza Diniakos, Program Manager for MICOP’s Immigration Legal Assistance Program (MILA) , tells us about ... April 3, 2019. To help recruit attorneys who can meet the language needs of their clients, ImmDef created a ...
August 30, 2023
Response Fund
On June 18, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court sided with DACA recipients ruling that the way in which the Trump administration rescinded the DACA program in 2017 was unlawful. The decision is a huge victory for immigrant communities and their allies who mobilized to protect the DACA program.
June, 2020
Issue Brief
... Office for Management and Budget, aims to curtail family immigration by punishing low-income families for ... this country. This month’s edition of GCIR’s Monthly Immigration Policy Calls will provide an in-depth review of ... Policy Marielena Hincapié , Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center (NILC) Laura Speer , Associate ...
April 19, 2018
... a reduction in income of at least 50%. We will not ask for immigration status, nor is it considered in determining ...
April 21, 2020
Response Fund
Join Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) for a special two-part series with experts from the field on understanding the challenges and opportunities along the southern border, with an emphasis on the role philanthropy can play at this critical stage.
April 22, 2021
Partner Program
... interpreters, leadership development, classes for parents, immigration legal assistance, and advocacy for Indigenous ... driver’s licenses available to everyone regardless of immigration status, but many people were not able to access ... to our culture and language. We need investments that meet those needs and recognize that this is long term work to ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
GCIR invites you to join a movement of philanthropic leaders. Being a GCIR member demonstrates a dedication to building an inclusive and equitable society and helps ensure a robust community of funders focused on the needs of newcomers.
Organization Materials
... 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
... justice causes that demand our attention. Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife who immigrated from ... what was new was getting a close-up look at a byzantine immigration system that makes it extremely difficult for ... in children, youth, and older adults – the issue of immigration stood out to me because of the magnitude of the ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
September, 2020
Funding Recommendations
... 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
... that views the client as a whole person and attempts to meet the entirety of their needs. Migrants have multiple ... differences faced by many migrants. Organizations that can meet the immediate humanitarian needs of migrants can then ... case management is an effective and efficient way to meet the needs of immigrants and refugees. We encourage ...
February 27, 2023
Response Fund
