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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
... To push back against this punitive and harmful policy, GCIR submitted a public comment in opposition and ... lead to humanitarian crises at home and abroad. Moving resources in a way that centers the leadership and ... transportation, food and water, and legal services. Moving resources to border and regional nonprofits rapidly can be ...
May 11, 2023
Statement
... year I was thrilled to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging ... to come. Joel Morales at 2022 Convening 350x304px.jpg GCIR’s lineup of plenary sessions, workshops, and ... refugees. I returned from GCIR’s convening with tools, resources, and new friendships that will last a lifetime. ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
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
... and community building in the face of this complex web of oppression, trauma, and injustice. In my experience, ... if that is the way we will survive?” To that end, GCIR is responding to these complex challenges by leaning ... rapid response funds mobilizing humanitarian aid and other resources within Ukraine. Earlier this month, the European ...
March 24, 2022
President's Message
... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) joins a growing chorus within philanthropy standing in ... as a unifying force in defiance of racism and deploy resources needed to protect our democracy and bring about equity and justice for all. — Team GCIR Foundation Statements Member Statements "....the veil ...
August 10, 2017
Statement
... Kevin Douglas, senior director of national programs at GCIR. GCIR’s delegation, which included GCIR staff and representatives from The Surdna Foundation and ...
April 11, 2024
Blog Post
... 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 ... can learn more about the Fund from the June 2nd webinar GCIR co-hosted with the Four Freedoms Fund. California ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... , and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) began working together last year to close these ... of Mexico in Los Angeles; Daranee Petsod, president of GCIR; Julián Escutia, head of consular coordination and ... Building Partnerships for Change: Engaging and Leveraging Resources for Immigrant Financial Integration ...
February 17, 2017
Commentary
... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) today announced the launch of the California Immigrant ... This unprecedented partnership aligns public and private resources to help immigrant Californians and their families ... helping to receive, disburse, and manage these critical resources to get them to the undocumented Californians hit ...
April 15, 2020
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org GCIR and Philanthropic Partners Announce Creation of ... helping to receive, disburse, and manage these critical resources to get them to heavily impacted border regions and ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2022 Contact: press@gcir.org Upwardly Global, GCIR Partner To Advance Economic Power for Immigrant and ... color, and shifting philanthropic strategy to invest more resources in immigrant and refugee women leadership. ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
All of us at GCIR grieve for the lives lost in Christchurch, New Zealand, ... supremacy have no place in our world. To funders in the GCIR network: While you may not be able to act in New ... Dunedin, New Zealand. Mark McGuire / Creative Commons GCIR Stands Against Islamophobia and Hate ...
March 15, 2019
Statement
... 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
By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President Dear Colleagues: In January 2019 , I ... the opposition’s in ambition and scope. I also announced GCIR’s plan to develop an affirmative vision to drive ... and engage a wide range of stakeholders, including GCIR members, immigrant rights and service organizations, as ...
June 5, 2019
President's Message
... tackle the most pressing issues facing our communities. GCIR is committed to supporting an equitable and sustainable ... essential work on the front lines. To learn more, read GCIR’s 2020 report on secondary traumatic stress and ...
July 8, 2021
Issue Spotlight
In this edition, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Kris Hayashi , ... and sexual orientation, and who face violence and lack of resources as a result. One response we received from funders ... only 4 cents focus on trans communities. In 2020, resources moved out of foundations in a way I’d never seen ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
Welcome to GCIR's Amplify blog series, where we feature interviews with ... our community and different organizations, services, and resources that exist in the area. Our work starts with ... to go to learn how to navigate systems and connect with resources and different types of people. Not knowing has ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), guided a group of six of us in and out of the long ... In 2015, I began my philanthropic journey as a staffer at GCIR. Over five years at GCIR, I worked on mobilizing philanthropic resources in support of disaster relief and legal services ...
May 11, 2023
Blog Post