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... Associate Director for Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives, WES Mariam Assefa Fund ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... to sign onto to its joint letter asking that the new citizenship question be removed. We also signed onto United ... Philanthropy Forum’s joint letter opposing the citizenship question. Criminal Justice. In the wake of ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... the end of each quarter. Several key insights emerged about how imperialism, anti-Blackness, racial capitalism, and ... opening and deeply troubling. We have had conversations about how best to mobilize philanthropy to support community ... of perpetuating extractive practices. We thought together about how to build solidarity beyond allyship and transform ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
... through strategic shifts, major programmatic change initiatives, and executive transitions. So, when I stepped ... November, I thought I knew everything I needed to know about getting ready for this opportunity. GCIR had hired an ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... for Families Fund, also launched today. To learn more about the Fund, visit www.gcir.org/CADignityFund . Led by ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
... the organization’s and our key partners’ best thinking about how to address the problem at hand; namely, that racial ... learning on absolutely everything. This principle is about being strategic about the use of our resources for maximum impact. ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... journey with you, and we are eager to hear from you about what you think of our new theory of change. What resonates with you? What are you curious about? What role might you play in helping us achieve the ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... to author their own experience, and narrative power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made ... invite funders to join us in our own political education about forced displacement, as we seek to understand better ... webinar early next year for funders who want to learn more about the global systems shaping forced migration. These ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
GCIR is announcing the California Dignity for Families Fund’s first round of grantmaking investments, totalling $2.8M. The Fund, launched in May as part of a public-private partnership with the State of California, mobilizes philanthropic dollars to provide urgent humanitarian relief to migrants and support for their resettlement in California communities.
October 6, 2021
Press Release
... scratch to creating and implementing multi-million-dollar initiatives. Your passion and dedication will always inspire ...
December 15, 2020
Philanthropic News
... serving Black migrant communities. You can learn more about the Fund from the June 2nd webinar GCIR co-hosted with ... learnings from these early “plantings,” we are excited about new projects we are sowing, including our partnership ... cooperatives. If you are interested in learning more about this project – or other work that we are sowing and ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
The membership of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) elected three new members to its board of directors, as well as re-elected three current board members.
January 27, 2020
Press Release
... the past two decades. We are currently reading articles about the connections between Black liberation and immigrant ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
... took participants to destinations across Houston to learn about immigrant justice work happening in the city. One site ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... Immigration Council ’s Jorge Loweree observed when asked about the failed bipartisan immigration deal, “Advocating ... could even be proposed. The prevailing narrative about immigrants has been designed to evoke a constant state ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... culture to ensure corporate diversity/equity/inclusion initiatives are inclusive of and advance immigrant women of ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
Ivy Suriyopas has been appointed as the new Vice President of Programs at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), effective May 12, 2021.
April 14, 2021
Press Release