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Join GCIR and our colleagues, Council of Michigan Foundations, for a conversation that will provide funders with a baseline understanding of immigrant and refugee issues and insights into how they can support these communities beyond civic engagement efforts in the run-up to elections and readily and strategically allocate resources in response to post-election developments.
GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun, Executive Director of Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California, an organization working for gender, racial, and economic justice through community and power building efforts led by Southeast Asian young women.
This past year, GCIR embarked upon an exciting new initiative and formed an internal working group to engage in intersectional and cross-movement analyses and develop an organization-wide action plan to ensure equitable and inclusive policies and practices in GCIR’s internal and external work.
2020 has been a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. The fourth consecutive year of escalating policy attacks on immigrants and many other marginalized communities.
Roughly two months into the Biden administration, we will take a look at the administration’s immigration policy agenda—what has been achieved, what remains to be done, and what obstacles stand in the way.
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.
The California Dignity for Families Fund helps migrants at the border and newly arriving Afghan and Haitian migrants receive urgent humanitarian relief as they request asylum and resettle across the state.
Donate now to help migrants at the border and Afghan and Haitian migrants access humanitarian aid as they seek asylum and resettle.
Join the California Local Voting Coalition for a funder briefing on the growing movement to end the political exclusion of immigrants and expand voting rights for all in local elections across California and beyond.
Visit this page to download GCIR's new policy state of play report that lays out key developments in immigration policy during the first 100 days of the new administration along with opportunities to support the organizations and networks carrying out essential work at the local, state, and national levels.