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... to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging leader in ... play across our social justice movements. Throughout the convening, I heard from leaders who shared their powerful ... the work led by and for immigrants and refugees. The conference also included site visits that took participants ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... to quickly start dismantling President Trump's immigration agenda. After Mr. Biden is sworn-in in January, his ... Biden plans sweeping reversal of Trump's immigration agenda, from deportations to asylum policy ...
November 11, 2020
News Article
... GCIR team test drove emerging concepts and values at our convening in Houston last May and through our programs and ... be addressed within a broader racial and social justice agenda. These outcomes , of course, are not GCIR’s alone. ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
... movements for social and racial justice. The Trans Agenda for Liberation is a clear example of that. When ... are Black, brown, and migrants. Out of that, the Trans Agenda for Liberation was created to serve as a guide for the ... could not get the time of day from most funders. TLC Trans Agenda Photo 370x208px.jpg Our close partner BLMP had the ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... justice movement. To this end, at our recent national convening in Houston, we released our formal public policy agenda. From calling for an end to Title 42 and opposing ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... immigrants and refugees and advancing an affirmative agenda with an eye towards long-term change. Here is a ... Delivering on the Dream (DOTD) : Launched in 2012 to maximize DACA implementation, the DOTD network now ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... on immigration stands in stark contrast to the xenophobic agenda the Trump administration has put forward the last four ...
December 2, 2020
Commentary
... ago, we attended the Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference in Washington DC. Under the theme, Equity in Education: Empowering Community Voice, the conference included a number of sessions related to immigrant ...
February 26, 2018
Commentary
... of whom who live in southeast Michigan. From Fiscal Year 2012 through Fiscal Year 2018, Michigan was the fourth ... largest state in the country for refugee acceptances since 2012, behind Texas, California and New York. The number of ...
September 6, 2019
Press Release
... Trump’s immigration legacy and push ahead with his own agenda. While some measures could be quickly rescinded, the ...
November 7, 2020
News Article
... our 30 th anniversary next year at our 2020 National Convening on March 11-13 in Atlanta, Georgia. This ... to bring the long-term vision to life. As we begin our convening planning process, we want to hear your ideas and ... to share them as part of the long-term vision survey . Convening & Long-Term Vision Survey Given the high stakes for ...
June 5, 2019
President's Message
... Justice-AAJC. Along with NALEO and the Leadership Conference, Advancing Justice-AAJC heads Census Counts , a ...
April 9, 2020
Commentary
... imperialism and forced migration. GCIR’s 2022 National Convening In May, our biennial convening will launch in Houston. The foremost gathering in philanthropy on immigrant and refugee issues, the convening brings together the sector’s leading voices and ...
March 24, 2022
President's Message
... in your interactions with funders? Photo at CNLD Conference Berkeley 500x375px.jpg Exclusion of voices and the ... this need, we are planning an immigration and disability conference so we can shape what we think the policy outcome ... Access Living, and we came up with a proposal to hold a conference in Chicago, bringing together a coalition of ...
March 17, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... move money and power to immigrant and refugee communities Convening movement leaders, funders, government actors, and other stakeholders at GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston — Power | Promise | Transformation ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... Kenneth Prewitt (1998-2001) Robert Groves (2009–2012) John ...
April 14, 2020
Blog Post
... Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.” Every immigrant possible — whether here ... pour the same energy and resources into the immigration agenda as the Trump administration did,” particularly when ... to National Science Foundation data going back to 2012. Among the doctoral students here today, though, many ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
June 18, 2020
News Article
... immigrant integration efforts. The seeds sown during this convening have already borne fruit in one community in ... the country will continue the discussions launched at the convening in the months to come, facilitating expanded ... organization form a new partnership as a result of the convening? Please share your stories with Althea Gonzalez , ...
February 17, 2017
Commentary
... some of those early plantings in the last few months. 2022 Convening One significant way in which our collective ... “planting” paid off this year was our biennial convening in Houston last month. When we began our planning ... We also knew that, in choosing Houston as the convening site, we aimed to shine a spotlight on the ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message