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Welcome to Amplify, where we feature interviews with immigrant justice field leaders to showcase their work and provide a platform for their perspectives. In this episode of our Amplify podcast, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Maria Ibarra-Frayre, Co-Director of We the People Michigan. The organization is committed to building power and strengthening civic engagement for communities across Michigan through disciplined, rigorous, long-term community organizing.
Join GCIR for the next meeting of the Transnational Strategy Community of Practice (CoP), a space for funders to share their knowledge of migrant-led transnational organizing and power-building work, learn more about how funders and donors are investing in this work, and identify opportunities to shape current and new transnational strategies.
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In her latest President's Message, Marissa Tirona encourages philanthropy to move beyond short-term thinking and a laser-focus on national elections to resource a diversity of strategies with long-term impact in addition to supporting electoral and civic engagement work.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Holding the Line of Defense in Florida by Building Local Power", including the session transcript and relevant links, here.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Building Resilience for Nonprofits in Texas in a Shifting Policy Landscape" here.
We invite you to join us on April 10th for a meeting of the California Immigrant Inclusion Initiative (CIII) to engage with fellow funders, leverage collective impact, and fortify the immigrant rights field in California.
In her quarterly message, GCIR President Marissa Tirona calls on philanthropy to step up in this critical moment and leverage its power in service of communities under attack by the current administration, including immigrants and refugees. She also shares how GCIR is stepping up in this moment to expand our state and local strategies, advance pro-immigrant policies, amplify power-building efforts and expand protections for migrants in the long-term.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's meeting "Resourcing Rural Belonging Community of Practice Meeting," including the session transcript and relevant links, here.
Join GCIR to learn how advocates are addressing the closure of the border and the resulting denial of access to safety while defending people who have made the United States their home.
Find all materials for GCIR's "California Immigrant Inclusion Initiative March 2025 Meeting" here, including the session transcript and relevant links.
GCIR’s recent webinar "Building Worker Power for Migrant Women" did something important beyond providing valuable content and timely insights: it gave us hope. The program,” showcased the miracle-making work being done in Arkansas, California, New Jersey, and New York to safeguard the rights of migrant women workers in the agriculture and poultry industries, and in the domestic work sector. In last month’s webinar, which was moderated by Carmen Randolph at Women’s Foundation of the South, we heard from local organizers at the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.’s (CRLA) LGBTQ+ Program; Damayan, a group that serves and empowers low-wage Filipino workers living and working in New York City and New Jersey; and Venceremos, a worker-based organization in Arkansas whose mission is to ensure the human rights of poultry workers.
GCIR’s Biennial National Convening will take place October 28-30, 2024, at The Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit, Michigan.
Join us for philanthropy's foremost conference on immigrant and refugee issues. The convening brings together the sector’s leading voices and advocates with the aim of giving funders new tools and renewed enthusiasm to guide their immigrant- and refugee-related grantmaking.
Find all materials for GCIR's "California Immigrant Inclusion Initiative April 2025 Meeting" here.
GCIR is organizing a site visit to Northwest Arkansas to complement the GSP 2025 Convening for funders and philanthropic-supporting organizations. Arkansas is one of the top five poultry processing states in the nation and has one of the highest concentrations of farmworkers. Immigrants have helped catalyze communities in the northwestern part of the state, a region which would otherwise have experienced significant population decline.
We have curated a set of resources to assist funders in preparation for a potential targeting of nonprofits and foundations. This list is not exhaustive and will be a dynamic space where we will continue to add resources as we identify them. We also encourage you to share these resources with your grantees.
GCIR joins our philanthropic partners in condemning the administration’s stated intent to undermine the organizations that do the essential work of protecting and caring for our communities. This impending attack on nonprofits is an obvious extension of the assault we are seeing on law firms, universities, diversity initiatives, and others - a clear attempt to dismantle civil society institution by institution.
GCIR envisions a society in which everyone thrives no matter where they are born. Through our work with foundations across the country, we mobilize philanthropic resources to promote the protection, wellbeing, and inclusion of immigrant and refugee communities within our multiracial democracy. Our 2025 Public Policy agenda is informed by the tireless work of immigrant justice advocates across the country, and we encourage funders to resource the movement organizations and campaigns leading these efforts.
On January 20th – a day meant to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – our nation will swear in a president who has relentlessly fanned the flames of racism, xenophobia, and division. In his first term, the president-elect kept his word on immigration: he said he was going to separate families, and he did, with thousands of children brutally locked in cages and kept from their parents. We also should believe him now, as he has made plain the intent to orchestrate the mass deportation of tens of millions of individuals and their families. It is a dystopian possibility to consider, with raids and roundups at houses of worship, schools, and hospitals – locations previously honored as “sensitive locations” and thus not subject to enforcement actions. However dark this vision, mass deportations are only one of a litany of anti-immigrant and anti-democratic plans the incoming administration has proposed.