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... Providing Refuge & Restoring Dignity: Meeting the Needs of Migrants in a Networked Way .” Launched in 2021, the Fund worked to ... humanitarian relief to newly arrived migrants, ensure due process for asylum seekers, and support their integration ...
October, 2023
Report
... are operating under tremendous stress during a period of significant political and cultural volatility. From the ... or “compassion fatigue”). Impacting professionals in a range of roles from case manager, to lawyer, to medical ... Philanthropy Forum Workforce Matters Philanthropy’s Role in Fostering Grantee Resilience and Managing Secondary ...
September 24, 2020
Webinar
President-elect of the United States Joseph Biden called for national unity in his victory speech on November 7. He said , “It’s ... at the link below. Immigration Advocates Can Have a Role in Advancing National Unity ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... Census helps to direct to California, what types of programs it covers, historical challenges in counting everyone, and six ways funders support an ...
October, 2016
Funding Recommendations, Infographic
... Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun , Executive Director of Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California, ... for youth, racial justice, and climate resiliency programs in Long Beach. The measure was approved by over 60% ... development, the youth in the community played a central role in shaping its culture and operational practices by, for ...
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... reviews the populations the Census typically undercounts in California, why there is a state undercount, and how that ... undercount can be reduced in 2020. It provides estimates of how many were missed in 2010, why immigrants and the impoverished are at high risk of being missed, and figures for how many adults and children ...
October, 2016
Infographic
Description The COVID-19 global pandemic has been one of the most consequential events in the last decade, wreaking havoc on families, communities, ... GCIR recently commissioned a study to analyze the efforts of philanthropy to support immigrant communities via relief ...
October 27, 2021
Webinar
... Resilience Fund and how we can strategically invest in the infrastructure and long-term capacity of the immigrant movement in California. We will then shift to a funder discussion on ...
April 30, 2020
Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION Over the last two decades, waves of immigrants have made rural communities their homes. ... from 2000 to 2018 immigrants accounted for 37 percent of overall rural population growth. Driven by demand for labor in the agricultural, meat packing, and dairy processing ...
October 18, 2022
Webinar
description With the onset of summer, there is excitement over warmer weather, summer ... for farmworkers who often have few, if any, protections in the workplace, the summer harvest season can bring heat ... many farmworkers are in the U.S. temporarily through visa programs such as H-2A, which can perpetuate labor abuses ...
July 13, 2023
Webinar
The COVID-19 crisis has heightened the consequences of recent policies that have deterred immigrants from ... explicit barriers to or deferred from participating in programs such as Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition ... will be difficult to resolve. State and local government agencies—a trusted source of information for immigrant ...
June 5, 2020
Blog Post
... Tirona speaks with Magaly Urdiales, Co-executive Director of the Western North Carolina Workers' Center . Read on as ... effect the changes workers want to see, and the important role philanthropy can play in building immigrant worker power ... and we need to start talking about us. Government agencies are not talking about us. When you say the word ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... new framework in a vacuum, so we convened a dynamic group of movement leaders, funders, and experts whose perspectives ... at our convening in Houston last May and through our programs and communications in the latter half of 2022. And ... What resonates with you? What are you curious about? What role might you play in helping us achieve the transformative ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... only morally repugnant, but also bad policy, as decades of private prison expansion in the United States have demonstrated. For-profit prisons ... rebalancing the portfolio can be a relatively streamlined process. If your institution cannot withdraw from those ...
August, 2019
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... United States received over 80,000 Afghan evacuees , many of whom were at added risk due to their association with the ... parole (HP), which allows them to live and work in the U.S. for two years, but does not provide a path to ... will have to apply for permanent residency through other programs, such as refugee admissions, asylum, or the SIV ...
October 6, 2022
Issue Spotlight
... CARES Act extensively expanded unemployment insurance (UI) programs in terms of who is eligible, the length of time for ... payments, and any future stimulus support. Everyone who files tax returns, regardless of immigration status, should ... care facilities, and other COVID-19 testing or quarantine sites or against people traveling to such sites. And while ...
April 16, 2020
News Article
In 2016, immigrants and refugees in the United States were catapulted to the center of policy debates. The United States Supreme Court issued a ... the thought leadership, technical assistance, educational programs, and resources that helped funders understand ...
April, 2017
GCIR Annual Report