GCIR is proud to share that after months of deep evaluation, final learnings from the California Dignity for Families Fund (CA DFF) are now published in our new report, “Providing Refuge & Restoring Dignity: Meeting the Needs of Migrants in a Networked Way.”
October, 2023
Report
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "The Future of Immigration Legal Services: A Time For Bold Action" here, including program recording and powerpoint.
July, 2022
Program Materials
This guide provides an overview of the 2010 census and background information for foundations interested in supporting efforts to produce a more accurate count of California's population.
January, 2009
Report
... It is not only morally repugnant, but also bad policy, as decades of private prison expansion in the United ... lack sufficient oversight, and subvert sensible public policy by bankrolling lobbying for excessive incarceration. ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
This report offers recommendations to strengthen immigration legal services in California for immigrants and asylum seekers. The report draws from 20 interviews with executive-level staff from legal service organizations and 80 responses to an online survey of a broad range of immigration legal service providers across the state.
February, 2020
Report
The East Bay Community Foundation is fortunate to be part of a compassionate, generous, and resilient community. In these times especially, the health, safety and well-being of their partners, staff and neighbors remains their top priority.
March 14, 2020
Statement
... repelled. To the extent that Americans are aware of such policy changes, they’re probably only familiar with the ... administration’s “zero tolerance” family-separations policy for asylum-seekers; the abrupt deportations of ... evidence and peripheral forms now required. (An update to the form and instructions, recently proposed by the ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
... force immigrants already here to leave through unilateral policy directives that fuel widespread fear and increase ... for legal assistance, to a redoubling of advocacy and policy strategies to create better conditions on the ground ... is that every piece of inflammatory rhetoric, every policy proposal, rule change, or executive order—whether ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... are not available to all immigrant families . A policy environment in which immigrant families fear accessing ...
June 5, 2020
Blog Post
... possible impact. We are also advancing an updated policy agenda , focused on promoting protection and safety, ... with funders and advocates - continue to advance our policy agenda in diverse localities across the country, ...
April 3, 2025
President's Message
... expelled tens of thousands of people under a new policy weaponizing the pandemic to deny people access to ... While initially characterized as an emergency measure, the policy was just extended indefinitely. View the full brief . ...
May, 2020
Issue Brief
Find all materials for GCIR's "California Immigrant Inclusion Initiative Q3 2024 Meeting" here, including the slides and other materials shared during the meeting.
September, 2024
Group Materials
... and refugee communities and how this translates into policy and opportunities for deeper philanthropic engagement. ... present. Speakers Samantha Artiga , Director, Disparities Policy Project, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation ... Health , The Children's Prtnership, California Immigrant Policy Center, March 2017 Golden Opportunity: Lessons from ...
March 8, 2018
Webinar
March 19, 2020
Co-Sponsored Program
While there has been a long history of efforts to erase and exclude immigrants, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities, this timeline shows how powerfully communities in Texas have resisted. From Indigenous nations fighting to preserve their culture to BIPOC communities organizing to end the criminalization of Black and Brown lives, people have sought to protect their freedom to move, stay, work, and thrive.
May, 2022
Infographic
... and strategies. This quarter’s meeting will include a policy update about how the unwinding of continuous enrollment in ...
March 15, 2023
Group Meeting
Find all program related materials from our QI LSWG Meeting here, including recording.
Group Materials
... changing conditions at the State and Local level and will update its planned start dates for selected operations and in ...
May 7, 2020
Blog Post
... Despite the highly polarized nature of federal immigration policy debates, most agree that once immigrants are admitted ... Over the past year a new initiative led by the Migration Policy Institute’s (MPI) National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy has worked—in partnership with UnidosUS, and an ...
October 11, 2018
Co-Sponsored Program
