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2017 dealt a relentless series of policy blows to virtually every vulnerable community in the ... the foreign-born; advanced aggressive and indiscriminate immigration enforcement; and terminated Deferred Action for ... Protected Status (TPS) programs. Cumulatively, these policy changes have devastated newcomers and their families ...
March, 2018
GCIR Annual Report
... rights, providing legal representation, and advocating for policy changes informed by the lived experiences of her ... strategic leadership role in three areas: program and policy strategy and development, funder education and ...
April 14, 2021
Press Release
Upwardly Global—a leading workforce development 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 organization focused on advancing immigrant and refugee justice—to address and dismantle systemic barriers that immigrant women of color face to economic security. The partnership is made possible due to a grant from Pivotal Ventures, and directly aligns with their goal of advancing social progress for women and families in the United States.
April 26, 2022
Press Release
... Hearts and Minds .” We also invite funders to join us in our own political education about forced displacement, ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
This two-page infographic covers major policy developments for immigrants and refugees between 1990 ... refugees reach their full potential. Immigrant and Refugee Policy Developments: Major policy changes between 1990 and 2015 that have impacted ...
January, 2016
Infographic
... in the U.S. and across the globe have faced a volatile policy environment that has been alternately welcoming and ... This four-page timeline summarizes immigrant and refugee policy developments and philanthropic responses from 1990 to ...
March, 2020
Infographic
... a case for long-term philanthropic commitment to funding immigration as a defining and cross-cutting issue of our ... the hostile policy environment; and peer-led sessions on topics such as effective funding strategies in rural and ... long-term movement and field building will require all of us to deepen the connection between immigrant rights and ...
March, 2020
GCIR Annual Report
... tough year for GCIR and for every organization working on immigration. The federal administration continued its ...
September, 2019
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 plain ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... in the United States were catapulted to the center of policy debates. The United States Supreme Court issued a ... and rights violations looming large. In this volatile immigration policy landscape, GCIR provided the thought leadership, ...
April, 2017
GCIR Annual Report
... living memory. The fourth consecutive year of intensifying policy attacks on immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, ... to center racial justice , and pushed for inclusion of immigration in philanthropic discussions on racism. 2020 ...
July, 2021
GCIR Annual Report
... the way. Your support, mutuality, and reciprocity helped us create strategic opportunities to move money and power to ... and to galvanize stakeholders and decision-makers to resource a robust immigration and refugee rights power-building ecosystem. We ...
March, 2024
GCIR Annual Report
... our new theory of change , the group delved into complex topics – including imperialism, racial capitalism, ... the opportunity to lead this area of work. For those of us now wrapping up the first one-year term of the working ... is deeply rooted in our societal structures, including our immigration system, and how this has an insidious impact that ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
... 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 ...
April, 2022
GCIR Annual Report
... centering invisibilized communities and often-neglected topics within the migrant justice movement. The next session, ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... the results of America’s presidential election, and immigration policy was top of the agenda. Not only was I anxious that my ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... a beat, mobilizing an effective and aggressive response to policy crises; keeping pace with the thirst for information ... and lifting up the voice of philanthropy in opposition to policy attacks. Our work focused both on addressing urgent ... we laid the groundwork for a project to examine immigration enforcement and detention in the context of ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... generative, and collaborative. It was important to us that we did not create this new framework in a vacuum, so ... are you curious about? What role might you play in helping us achieve the transformative change we seek? In these ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... data, evidence, knowledge, and storytelling for informing policy and decision-making at all levels. I arrived at GCIR ... learning framework and include metrics on what can help us define success, I am cautious not to let numbers have the ... di Prima wrote: “No one way works, it will take all of us shoving at the thing from all sides to bring it down.” ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature