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... proposals seek to corrode public confidence in the asylum system, demonize asylum seekers, and erode protections for ... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) partnered with the Four Freedoms Fund to commission an ... https://www.strausscenter.org/images/MSI/AsylumReport_MSI.pdf [5] While each side along with outside parties are, in ...
March, 2019
Report
... large. In this volatile immigration policy landscape, GCIR provided the thought leadership, technical assistance, ... Annual Report to learn more about our work that year. GCIR 2016 Annual Report ...
April, 2017
GCIR Annual Report
... and uncertainty in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, GCIR is leaning into our core values to guide how we mobilize ... and assert leadership and influence in the public sphere. GCIR stands ready to work with funders to ensure that your ... in implementing these recommendations, please contact GCIR’s COVID-19 leads, Aryah Somers Landsberger or Kevin ...
April, 2020
Funding Recommendations
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
... proposals seek to corrode public confidence in the asylum system, demonize asylum seekers, and erode protections for ... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) partnered with the Four Freedoms Fund to commission an analysis of challenges to the system and opportunities for intervention. This summary is ...
March, 2019
Issue Brief
... 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
... but also great opportunities for philanthropy. Based on GCIR’s conversations with movement leaders throughout the country about key priorities, strategies, and needs, GCIR is releasing today our recommendations for how ... the first 100 days of the Biden administration and beyond. GCIR Post-election Funding Recommendations ...
December, 2020
Funding Recommendations
... and 2015, as well as the efforts over that time period by GCIR, our members, and partners. Specifically, the two pages ... highlights from 25 years of the wide range of efforts by GCIR, our members, and funding partners to address the needs, ... visions of who we are and want to be as a society. GCIR 25th Anniversary Timeline ...
January, 2016
Infographic
... a year of significant transitions for the country and for GCIR. It ushered in a new federal administration and, along ... immigrant communities and communities of color. Here at GCIR, 2021 marked the organization’s first year with our ... the helm. With Marissa’s leadership and the strength of GCIR’s 30-year legacy, we built forward our critical role ...
April, 2022
GCIR Annual Report
... 2022 was a year of continued growth and evolution for GCIR. We continued to expand our staff capacity—including ... inclusion, and learning. As I have often said, my job as GCIR’s President is to create the conditions in which ... individual and collective sustainability and thriving. At GCIR, we talk about doing our work in a networked way, and we ...
March, 2024
GCIR Annual Report
Overview This 12-page report reviews GCIR's efforts to inform, connect, and catalyze philanthropy ... inhumane policies and dehumanizing rhetoric. In response, GCIR continued to provide timely updates and expert analysis, ... as well as a learning lab on the immigrant detention system, both of which fostered deeper connections among the ...
March, 2020
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
Introduction By all measures, 2018 was a tough year for GCIR and for every organization working on immigration. The ... and undermine our pluralistic democracy. In response, GCIR mounted an all-out effort to galvanize philanthropic ... and secondary trauma for service providers. Read the GCIR 2018 Annual Report to learn more about ...
September, 2019
GCIR Annual Report
... the two fundamental flaws that plague the current U.S. system. First, the system is too restrictive, which leads to violations of the ... to Americans who wish to interact with both. Second, the system is too inflexible to adapt to new economic or social ...
November, 2020
Analysis
... undocumented, a modernization of our legal immigration system, and sensible immigration enforcement priorities ... and other nonimmigrant visa bans and reform the H-1B visa system to boost American innovation and better protect ... link below. 21 for ‘21: Fixing America’s Immigration System ...
November, 2020
Issue Brief
Remarks delivered by GCIR's president, Daranee Petsod, at Courage, Vision, Action , GCIR's 2020 National Convening, in Atlanta, Georgia. ... no matter where they’re born. Having been a part of GCIR since its founding 30 years ago, and leading it for the ...
March, 2020
Presentation, Program Materials
This six-minute video features GCIR's founders, members, and allies reflecting on the past ... development and the role that philanthropy has played. GCIR 20th Anniversary Video ...
July, 2010
Video & Audio
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
... like other U.S. children, may enter the child welfare system if there are reports of abuse or neglect. Yet ... unauthorized immigrants may also enter the child welfare system if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...
April, 2019
Report
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 ... conditions unique to a given place, and of building on GCIR’s past engagement in a particular state or region. ...
February, 2023
Organization Materials