Civic & Political Participation
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.

October 2020
President's Message
News
October 2020
Co-Sponsored Program

Source: Funder's Committee for Civic Participation
Program
Save the date for GCIR's November election scenario planning webinar.
September 2020
Webinar
Program
Join the FCCP to learn more about these initiatives that allow for quickly evolving November and transition period plans.
September 2020
Co-Sponsored Program

Source: Funder's Committee for Civic Participation
Program
Find all program-related materials for the webinar, "Election Scenario Planning," including powerpoint and recording here.
September 2020
Program Materials
Resource
As Americans face troubling new barriers to vote, is philanthropy ready to help?

November 2019
Report
Source: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Resource
Joing Piper Fund's funder briefing to hear from leaders on the front lines in conversation about the challenges they are confronting nationwide, how they are building alliances to fight back and win, and how funders are supporting new networks and campaigns to defend and champion our right to protest.
September 2019
Co-Sponsored Program
Program
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is joining with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and The Kresge Foundation to create the Southeast Michigan Immigrant and Refugee Funder Collaborative, which seeks to address a needs gap of the immigrant and refugee population in the region.

September 2019
Press Release
Source: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
News
This webinar will consider models of improving immigrant access to, and experience of the U.S. labor market, advocacy strategies for expanding workforce protections, and how philanthropy can apply these lessons.
June 2019
Webinar

Program