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By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President Dear Colleagues: In light of the ... DACA implementation, the DOTD network now comprises 20 sites in 15 states working to expand legal services, outreach ... to new challenges that arise, and provide the support and resources you have come to rely upon. While we will have less ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... and 2015, as well as the efforts over that time period by GCIR, our members, and partners. Specifically, the two pages ... Immigrants and Refugees: Milestones and highlights from 25 years of the wide range of efforts by GCIR, our members, and funding partners to address the needs, ...
January, 2016
Infographic
... fear and uncertainty, with threats of mass deportation, family separation, and rights violations looming large. In this volatile immigration policy landscape, GCIR provided the thought leadership, technical assistance, educational programs, and resources that helped funders understand shifting conditions ...
April, 2017
GCIR Annual Report
Throughout GCIR’s 30-year history, immigrants and refugees in the U.S. ... and want to be as a society. And for the past 30 years, GCIR, along with our members and funding partners, has ... and philanthropic responses from 1990 to 2020. GCIR 30th Anniversary Timeline ...
March, 2020
Infographic
Introduction By all measures, 2018 was a tough year for GCIR and for every organization working on immigration. The ... foundations that deployed more than $15 million to address family separation. We organized a campaign, partnering with Northern ...
September, 2019
GCIR Annual Report
... to workplaces and houses of worship. In response, GCIR mounted an extraordinary effort to inform, connect, and ... facing immigrant families and communities. Read the GCIR 2017 Annual Report: Rallying Philanthropy to Stand with Immigrants and Refugees to learn more about how GCIR staff, members, funders, and allies rose to 2017’s ...
March, 2018
GCIR Annual Report
... democracy. In the face of these extraordinary challenges, GCIR leaned into our mission, vision, and values , taking ... by immigrant, BIPOC, and LGBTQI leaders. Time and again, GCIR rallied philanthropy to act with urgency, courage, ... in philanthropic discussions on racism. 2020 marked GCIR’s 30th year of galvanizing philanthropy to address ...
July, 2021
GCIR Annual Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org GCIR and ... helping to receive, disburse, and manage these critical resources to get them to heavily impacted border regions and ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
This four-minute video features GCIR board members talking about the role the organization ... immigrants and refugees in reaching their full potential. GCIR 25th Anniversary Video ...
July, 2016
Video & Audio
... year I was thrilled to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging ... can continue to fight for inclusive communities, prevent family separation, move away from the use of detention ... refugees. I returned from GCIR’s convening with tools, resources, and new friendships that will last a lifetime. ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... a year of significant transitions for the country and for GCIR. It ushered in a new federal administration and, along ... as expelling Haitian migrants and failing to release immigrant detainees during the pandemic—continued ... on behalf of immigrant communities. Through our programs, resources, grantmaking, and communications, we addressed ...
April, 2022
GCIR Annual Report
Dear Colleagues: In 2021, GCIR launched a process to develop a new strategy which ... of oppression inflict harm upon and withhold power and resources from people who seek to stay, move freely, work, ... systemic challenges. As such: We will mobilize resources and create spaces for learning by modeling and ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
Overview This 12-page report reviews GCIR's efforts to inform, connect, and catalyze philanthropy ... Our work spanned myriad issues, including public charge, family separation, border enforcement, detention and ... sought to ensure fairness in the allocation of federal resources and in political apportionment over the next ...
March, 2020
GCIR Annual Report
... 2022 was a year of continued growth and evolution for GCIR. We continued to expand our staff capacity—including ... experience of immigrant and refugee leaders; and mobilized resources by modeling and encouraging philanthropic practices ... inclusion, and learning. As I have often said, my job as GCIR’s President is to create the conditions in which ...
March, 2024
GCIR Annual Report
... six months of 2022 have been a time when many of the seeds GCIR planted last year germinated and bloomed, and, as ... on the Black Migrant Power Fund , a new fund driving resources to groups serving Black migrant communities. You ... Haitian migrants seeking humanitarian relief. Moved $10.6 million to 44 organizations across the state. Launched a ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2022 Contact: press@gcir.org Upwardly Global, GCIR Partner To Advance ... color, and shifting philanthropic strategy to invest more resources in immigrant and refugee women leadership. ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
Last month GCIR rolled out our new theory of change, which reflects our ... Carolina. To guide these efforts, we have developed a GCIR state and local framework, which we’re thrilled to ... and refugees 3) Seed and cultivate funder networks to move resources and shift philanthropic practice Our state and ...
February, 2023
Organization Materials
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org California Dignity for Families Fund Announces ... they are released from federal care and reunited with family or placed with a sponsor in California. This reduces ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) elected to its board of directors Angie Junck , ... Blue Shield of California Foundation . In addition, the GCIR membership re-elected Shawn Morehead , Vice President ... board, including two years as co-chair. Founded in 1990, GCIR works with member foundations and the broader ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release