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... year I was thrilled 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 ...
July 13, 2022
Blog Post
... six months of 2022 have been a time when many of the seeds GCIR planted last year germinated and bloomed, and, as ... some of those early plantings in the last few months. 2022 Convening One significant way in which our collective ... can learn more about the Fund from the June 2nd webinar GCIR co-hosted with the Four Freedoms Fund. California ...
June 21, 2022
President's Message
Dear Colleagues: In 2021, GCIR launched a process to develop a new strategy which ... design team worked together to: Define the problem that GCIR seeks to address. Articulate the ways in which GCIR ... GCIR team test drove emerging concepts and values at our convening in Houston last May and through our programs and ...
February 7, 2023
President's Message
By Daranee Petsod, GCIR President Dear Colleagues: In light of the ... hostile times. Sincerely, Daranee Petsod President GCIR President's Q3 Update, 2018 ...
July 31, 2018
President's Message
... of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) elected to its board of directors Angie Junck , ... Blue Shield of California Foundation . In addition, the GCIR membership re-elected Shawn Morehead , Vice President ... board, including two years as co-chair. Founded in 1990, GCIR works with member foundations and the broader ...
January 27, 2020
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org GCIR and Philanthropic Partners Announce Creation of ... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) today announced the launch of the California Dignity ...
May 14, 2021
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2022 Contact: press@gcir.org Upwardly Global, GCIR Partner To Advance Economic Power for Immigrant and ... up with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant Refugees (GCIR)—the nation’s philanthropy-mobilizing organization ...
April 26, 2022
Press Release
... I needed to know about getting ready for this opportunity. GCIR had hired an amazing organizational transition ... going to work. So, to lead and support this amazing GCIR team through the transition, I leaned into what I knew: ... move money and power to immigrant and refugee communities Convening movement leaders, funders, government actors, and ...
December 7, 2021
President's Message
... and pride as I conclude my 22-year tenure at the helm of GCIR. Even though this transition has been long in planning, ... without your love and support. May you always know that GCIR’s successes belong to you, too. To my dear GCIR colleagues, past and present: I am deeply grateful for ...
December 15, 2020
Philanthropic News
... Sara Feldman, Angelica Laguna, and Ivy O. Suriyopas GCIR logo.png This past year, GCIR embarked upon an exciting new initiative and formed an ... ensure equitable and inclusive policies and practices in GCIR’s internal and external work. Comprised in 2023 of ...
November 9, 2023
Blog Post
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14, 2021 Contact: press@gcir.org GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND ... justice brings more than 15 years of experience to GCIR PETALUMA, CA – Ivy Suriyopas has been appointed as the ... at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), effective May 12, 2021. Suriyopas is a strategic and ...
April 14, 2021
Press Release
Our work at GCIR is grounded in the belief that affecting transformative ... or in case of law enforcement abuse. To that end, GCIR, alongside other philanthropic organizations, will host ... power is about building agency and self-determination. GCIR has made narrative work one of its central strategies ...
November 13, 2023
President's Message
... there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs Learning Manager. My position is new, ... policy and decision-making at all levels. I arrived at GCIR in December 2022, weeks before the launch of our new ...
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... also found significant value in applying a global lens to GCIR’s work, and saw this as a ripe opportunity to strengthen GCIR’s commitment to addressing the global forces that ... worker justice, and racial justice. For these reasons, GCIR is exploring what it means to do our work as a ...
June 29, 2023
President's Message
... has transpired in our country since I took the helm of GCIR on November 23, 2020. We have weathered weeks of ... and daughter of immigrants from the Philippines, I come to GCIR with a deeply personal understanding that belonging is ... I believe we must, and we will. To do so, I believe that GCIR will need to build forward its critical role in the U.S. ...
January 29, 2021
President's Message
... inclusive, and other pro-immigrant policies abound. GCIR’s 2024 Policy Agenda details some of those ... in movement infrastructure is the central topic of GCIR’s webinar taking place this week, Funding Like You ... that have embraced movement-centered strategies. At GCIR, we believe that - even in the face of increasing ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
... from other funders since our inception in 2019. As a GCIR board member, I am deeply proud that our Fund has built ...
November 9, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
... IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2021 Contact: dignityfund@gcir.org California Dignity for Families Fund Announces ... Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) is announcing the California Dignity for Families ... into receiving communities across the state. In August, GCIR expanded the Fund’s purpose to include support for ...
October 6, 2021
Press Release