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... to receive a scholarship to attend GCIR’s 2022 convening in Houston in May as an emerging leader in ... lives of those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016 – nearly all of whom were LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx ... the work led by and for immigrants and refugees. The conference also included site visits that took participants ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... (ICE) arrests increased by 30 percent, from 110,000 in 2016 to 143,000 in 2019. Status In 2021, the Department of ... variant of Covid-19, the U.S. government instituted a travel ban against non-U.S. citizens traveling from South ... citizens, legal permanent residents, and anyone with valid travel documents, it applied to people seeking asylum. ...
January 24, 2022
Commentary
... faced a host of challenges, many of them arising from post-2016 turmoil within the federal government itself. The most ... Justice-AAJC. Along with NALEO and the Leadership Conference, Advancing Justice-AAJC heads Census Counts , a ...
April 9, 2020
Commentary
... with the ScholarshipsA-Z (SA-Z) team in the summer of 2016 to United We Dream’s Congress in Houston, Texas. She ...
September 21, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... having to sustain lost expenses and deposits for travel, meeting spaces, and more. Funders can more quickly ...
March 16, 2020
Philanthropic News
... has issued a series of executive actions—from the travel ban to ramped-up enforcement—aimed at curtailing ... across our state. Philanthropy’s response Since November 2016, the undersigned foundations have come together at the ... and/or region-specific challenges. * Between November 2016 and June 2017. Pressing needs While the ...
January 12, 2018
Statement
Amidst travel restrictions and other government responses to the ... suspended refugee resettlement departures —the actual travel of a refugee from their initial country of asylum to ... the country where they will be resettled. In addition to travel disruptions, the UNHCR cited concerns that refugees ...
April 21, 2020
News Article
... to admit half the number of legal immigrants it did in 2016. This would bring levels of legal immigration down to ... receiving temporary “nonimmigrant” visas to study, travel, work and so on. The vast majority of immigrants ... “I want people to come in,” Trump said during the 2016 campaign. “I want tremendous numbers of people to come ...
November 10, 2020
News Article
... administration also intends to rescind Mr. Trump's travel and immigration restrictions on 13 countries, most ...
November 11, 2020
News Article
... areas: 1. IMMIGRATION REFORM AND ‘DREAMERS 2. TRUMP’S TRAVEL BANS 3. TRUMP’S PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS 4. SKILLED ...
November 7, 2020
News Article
... child care options given school closures and work and travel changes as a result of the measures to mitigate the ... well. Take a look at news stories from the news conference. These are your voices -- this is what you did! ...
March 13, 2020
Memo
... 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
... like separating families at the border , banning travel from Muslim-majority countries and building his ...
November 15, 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
... can be achieved when we work together. For example, in 2016 we achieved a major language justice victory. Arcenio ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series
... 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
In this edition of Amplify, GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Mily Treviño-Sauceda, Executive Director of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas. Read on as Mily shares how the work of farmworker women intersects with fights for migrant, gender, worker, and climate justice, and how philanthropy can support the leadership of women farmworkers. A note to readers: This interview mentions sensitive topics that may be triggering, including sexual harassment and other violence against women. Please take care while reading this article.
December 7, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... $20 billion in federal taxes, and as reported in the 2016 Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy an ...
April 24, 2020
Response Fund