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Dear We Count Los Angeles Partners, Thank you for your ... them to fill out the census questionnaire. Details about the paid media program and how to participate can be ... be critical to keep our momentum going. For those of you who will shift to remote operations, email communication will ...
March 13, 2020
Memo
... since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of unfounded claims of election ... and a healthy democracy. As the descendant of farmworkers who worked in Selma and Delano in the 1930s and 1940s ... speech, President Biden recognized the challenges we are facing, the “cascading crises of our era.” He asked, ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
... volunteers, colleagues and essential workers. Litigators are hard at work fighting to make sure this decision does not ... and build strong, welcoming, fully inclusive communities, we must go beyond DACA to establish a pathway to citizenship ... their families, and the 11 million undocumented immigrants who call this country home. As we speak, organizers and ...
July 21, 2021
Statement
... us and bolster our resilience. It is no surprise that we are all struggling, personally, professionally, and often ... has rallied and risen to the challenge. Together, we have dug deep to both address urgent community needs and ...
October 13, 2020
President's Message
WASHINGTON — Americans are eligible for up to $1,200 in coronavirus stimulus money ... they're married and filing taxes jointly with an immigrant who doesn’t have a Social Security number. Democratic leaders are demanding to change that. About 2 million undocumented people are married to a U.S. ...
May 1, 2020
News Article
... thriller called “The Cobra Event” by Richard Preston, about a terrorist who releases a deadly virus in the United States. Preston had ... disrupts U.S. society in a big way, some foundations are scrambling to respond. But almost no one in the sector ...
March 11, 2020
Philanthropic News
... growing health and economic concerns, local nonprofits are stepping up to fill the gaps in our social safety net ... strain, and increased uncertainty. As an industry, we aren’t known to be nimble, but there are six things we ... has exposed our industry’s failure to think holistically about our grantees’ financial needs as functioning ...
March 16, 2020
Philanthropic News
... solidarity and employing an intersectional analysis. We entered this process intentionally, with our first year ... the end of each quarter. Several key insights emerged about how imperialism, anti-Blackness, racial capitalism, and ... such as white supremacy, not just the symptoms. We are grateful to have had this opportunity to engage in ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
As Californians we know that our own well-being is tied to everyone ... other requests to shore up the social safety net for them. About 40 philanthropic institutions, including NCG and ... trusted relationships with the communities on the ground, who need this cash assistance. Daranee Petsod: You asked us ...
May 1, 2020
Blog Post
As Californians we know that our own well-being is tied to everyone ... other requests to shore up the social safety net for them. About 40 philanthropic institutions, including NCG and ... trusted relationships with the communities on the ground, who need this cash assistance. Daranee Petsod: You asked us ...
May 1, 2020
Philanthropic News
... Project (MICOP) . Read on as Arcenio shares his thoughts about building power for Indigenous immigrants, the ... farmworkers in California are from Indigenous communities. We speak our native languages that are different from Spanish ... when we are on our own continent? We are migrants, people who move. Because of colonization our lands were taken away ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... and oppression of those communities. In recent years, we have borne witness to the myriad ways in which systems of ... . We are heartened by the diverse set of stakeholders who are advocating for adherence to international ... to author their own experience, and narrative power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
... government to continue renewing the DACA cases of those who were enrolled in the program while the lawsuits were ... should be accepted by USCIS. COMMUNITY GATHERING Tonight, we will hold an online community gathering when we will share details about the Supreme Court decision and how it will impact ...
June 18, 2020
Commentary
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing what we have always known: our nation’s deep inequalities and ... households weather the economic fallout, we know there are millions of families bearing the brunt of this crisis who won’t receive a check, won’t get unemployment, and ...
April 10, 2020
Response Fund
AEW_cropped.png What do we hope to accomplish? What will success look like? What will ... descendants of immigrants from Germany and Poland who landed at Ellis Island. My border-traversing DNA was ... the organization’s and our key partners’ best thinking about how to address the problem at hand; namely, that racial ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... featured a wedding couple encircled by several groomsmen. We soon learned that all the men were immigrants from Nigeria, Guinea, Eritrea and Mongolia who’d been detained together at the West County Detention ... exponentially since the 1990s, currently hovering at about 55,000 nationwide. Hence, the work to curb immigrant ...
September 30, 2019
Blog Post
... planted last year germinated and bloomed, and, as someone who is still relatively new to this role, it has been both ... was our biennial convening in Houston last month. When we began our planning in early 2021 we knew that, for many ... serving Black migrant communities. You can learn more about the Fund from the June 2nd webinar GCIR co-hosted with ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
... power to immigrant and refugee communities. To that end, we asked the Luminare Group to design and facilitate a ... harm upon and withhold power and resources from people who seek to stay, move freely, work, transform, and thrive. ... journey with you, and we are eager to hear from you about what you think of our new theory of change. What ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... leaders to raise funds for undocumented working families who support our economy, industries, and communities every ... and economic crisis. Each year, the IRS estimates that about 6 million undocumented immigrants who serve our ... a human right to receive is an injustice. Accordingly, we hope that someday soon fellow citizens and leaders in ...
April 24, 2020
Response Fund