Workers' Rights
In this edition, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Magaly Urdiales, Co-executive Director of the Western North Carolina Workers' Center. Read on as Magaly shares her insights on organizing workers in her region, the innovative strategies they use to identify campaign issues and effect the changes workers want to see, and the important role philanthropy can play in building immigrant worker power and leadership in rural areas.

May 2023
GCIR Blog Series
News
Join GCIR, Immigrants Rising, Youth Engagement Fund, and the Undocumented in Philanthropy Network on April 6 for an info session on employment-based immigration remedies and benefits that may be advantageous to workers with DACA.
April 2023
Webinar

Program
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Supporting and Retaining DACA Talent" here, including the session recording and PowerPoint.

April 2023
Program Materials
Resource
Over the last two decades, waves of immigrants have made rural communities their homes. According to the Pew Research Center, from 2000 to 2018 immigrants accounted for 37 percent of overall rural population growth. Driven by demand for labor in the argricultural, meat packing, and dairy processing industries, this growth has led to an economic revival of parts of rural America where communities were once on the decline.
October 2022
Webinar

Program
Join GCIR and leaders from the field as they share their insights and expertise on how to support migrant workers.
August 2021
Webinar

Program
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar, " Intersectional Justice: Migrant Workers and Economic Justice" here, including recording and powerpoint presentation.
August 2021
Program Materials
Resource
The second quarterly meeting of GCIR's Delivering on the Dream (DOTD) network.
May 2021
Group Meeting
Program
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
Indigenous migrants have been neglected and made invisible by prevailing attitudes and practices in the U.S., including philanthropy. Grantmakers can do something about it.
June 2019
Issue Brief
Source: National Committee For Response Philanthropy
Resource
This webinar gave funders an overview of the issues facing guest workers and their families, current and proposed policies, and vulnerabilities workers face.
October 2017
Webinar

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