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... emotionally, and academically. A special thanks to GCIR members and funders for their support in making this ... Students, Families, and Communities: Actions for PreK-12 Schools and Higher Education ...
September, 2017
Funding Recommendations, Issue Brief
... large. In this volatile immigration policy landscape, GCIR provided the thought leadership, technical assistance, educational programs, and resources that helped funders understand shifting conditions ... Annual Report to learn more about our work that year. GCIR 2016 Annual Report ...
April, 2017
GCIR Annual Report
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
Denver state capitol protest 350x277px.jpg GCIR envisions a society in which everyone thrives no matter ... across the country, we seek to mobilize philanthropic resources to promote the protection, wellbeing, and inclusion ... system designed to reduce pathways to safety. To this end, GCIR holds the following positions: Oppose policies that ...
... 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
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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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 ... two years as co-chair. Founded in 1990, GCIR works with member foundations and the broader philanthropic community to ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
Remarks delivered by GCIR's president, Daranee Petsod, at Courage, Vision, ... response, our funder community has mobilized unprecedented resources to address humanitarian needs and push back against ... GCIR’s immigrant integration framework, developed nearly 15 years ago, focused on weaving immigrants into the existing ...
March, 2020
Presentation, Program Materials
... 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
... 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 ... on behalf of immigrant communities. Through our programs, resources, grantmaking, and communications, we addressed ...
April, 2022
GCIR Annual Report
March 11, 2020
... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) joins a growing chorus within philanthropy standing in ... applaud the strong statements issued by our member foundations and our colleague ... as a unifying force in defiance of racism and deploy resources needed to protect our democracy and bring about ...
August 10, 2017
Statement
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 ... consultation to 75 foundations that deployed more than $15 million to address family separation. We organized a ...
September, 2019
GCIR Annual Report