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... since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of unfounded claims of election ... and a healthy democracy. As the descendant of farmworkers who worked in Selma and Delano in the 1930s and 1940s ... speech, President Biden recognized the challenges we are facing, the “cascading crises of our era.” He asked, ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
... was a year of continued growth and evolution for GCIR. We continued to expand our staff capacity—including adding new members to our talented programs team— and we leaned into our roles of convenor, amplifier, and ... spaces for learning while promoting strategies that are intersectional, cross-movement, and liberatory; partnered ...
March, 2024
GCIR Annual Report
... welcoming and hostile, reflecting conflicting visions of who we are and want to be as a society. And for the past 30 years, ...
March, 2020
Infographic
... and oppression of those communities. In recent years, we have borne witness to the myriad ways in which systems of ... and generational trauma, harm, and violence. What we are experiencing now, including: widespread discrimination ... . We are heartened by the diverse set of stakeholders who are advocating for adherence to international ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
... planted last year germinated and bloomed, and, as someone who is still relatively new to this role, it has been both ... was our biennial convening in Houston last month. When we began our planning in early 2021 we knew that, for many ... to highlight the extensive and powerful work advocates are undertaking to advance immigrant justice in the state. By ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... welcoming and hostile, reflecting conflicting visions of who we are and want to be as a society. GCIR 25th Anniversary ...
January, 2016
Infographic
... power to immigrant and refugee communities. To that end, we asked the Luminare Group to design and facilitate a ... movement leaders, funders, and experts whose perspectives are informed by varied experiences and roles within the ... harm upon and withhold power and resources from people who seek to stay, move freely, work, transform, and thrive. ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... charge to efforts to expand legal services capacity, we kept funders informed of the latest developments affecting ... At our 2020 National Convening in Atlanta, Georgia, we uplifted intersectional models of service delivery, ... the organization for 22 years. As we look ahead, we are thrilled to have our new president Marissa Tirona at the ...
July, 2021
GCIR Annual Report
... immigration and refugee rights power-building ecosystem. We recognize that this transformative change will be the ... withhold power and resources from—people and communities who seek to stay, to move freely, to work, to transform, and ... change in support of immigrant and refugee communities are the following assumptions: There are international forces ...
February, 2023
Organization Materials
AEW_cropped.png What do we hope to accomplish? What will success look like? What will it take to get there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs ... descendants of immigrants from Germany and Poland who landed at Ellis Island. My border-traversing DNA was ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... of oppression displace people and communities. When we embarked upon the journey of designing our new Theory of ... at the transnational and global levels. Right now, we are deep in learning mode so we can better understand the ... we met with Harsha Walia , a Canadian activist and writer who has been involved in anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
Read the GCIR 2017 Annual Report to learn more about how GCIR staff, members, funders, and allies rose to 2017’s challenges.
March, 2018
GCIR Annual Report
Nomzana Headshot - 750x1000px.jpg When you are a Black child in Africa, often the narrative is that our dreams are not valid. However, I am a Zambian who was born and raised on the Continent and was exposed to a ... global north holds all the power and resources – what we as Africans had was in fact enough to be happy. However, ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... effort to galvanize philanthropic response. Highlights We provided consultation to 75 foundations that deployed more than $15 million to address family separation. We organized a campaign, partnering with Northern California ... submitting comments to the proposed public charge rule. We mobilized California funders to support a fair and ...
September, 2019
GCIR Annual Report
... of our shoulder-to-shoulder work, the trials and triumphs we’ve shared, and the mutual trust and respect we’ve ... which everyone belongs, no matter the color of their skin, who they are, or where they were born. To each of you, I offer my ...
December 15, 2020
Philanthropic News
... leadership and the strength of GCIR’s 30-year legacy, we built forward our critical role as a philanthropic ... our programs, resources, grantmaking, and communications, we addressed longstanding systemic issues while also ... communities and to serve its best and highest purpose. We look forward to advancing immigrant justice and belonging ...
April, 2022
GCIR Annual Report
... and Immigration, at the California Community Foundation , who will serve another year as co-chair. James Gore , ... Funders’ Affinity Group of the Year for the key role we played in coordinating funder pushback to federal ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
... had hired an amazing organizational transition consultant (who happened to also be my long-time leadership coach), I was ... for this new adventure. And yet, executive transitions are inherently hard, especially ones that follow a founder. ... and refugee communities I share these reflections because we must pay close attention to what our teams, networks, and ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... and communities of color to advance shared goals. We also began developing a case for long-term philanthropic ... private, and corporate foundations. These funders are coordinating efforts to maximize the participation of ... will improve opportunities and conditions for Californians who have been politically, economically, and socially ...
March, 2020
GCIR Annual Report