State & Local Policy
In an election year when immigration is the top issue in the minds of many voters, these policies exacerbate xenophobic, anti-immigrant, and racist sentiments that further dehumanize and criminalize immigrant and refugee communities while also expanding state powers to detain, deport, and terrorize undocumented individuals. To respond to this moment, organizations are leveraging different strategies–from litigation to organizing–to prevent the implementation of these policies and create a more welcoming country for all.
May 2024
Webinar
Program
Join us for GCIR’s first Midwest regional network meeting, where we will create space for funders in the region to connect, learn from one another, and map out opportunities for future collaboration.
September 2023
Regional Briefing
Program
Join us for GCIR’s first Southwest regional network meeting, where we will create space for funders in the region to connect, learn from one another, and map out opportunities for future collaboration.
May 2023
Regional Briefing
Program
Join us for GCIR’s first southeast regional network meeting, where we will create space for funders in the region to connect, learn from one another, and map out opportunities for future collaboration.
March 2023
Regional Briefing
Program
Over the last two decades, waves of immigrants have made rural communities their homes. According to the Pew Research Center, from 2000 to 2018 immigrants accounted for 37 percent of overall rural population growth. Driven by demand for labor in the argricultural, meat packing, and dairy processing industries, this growth has led to an economic revival of parts of rural America where communities were once on the decline.
October 2022
Webinar
Program
In 2022 GCIR adopted a policy agenda informed by input from immigrant justice movement leaders, GCIR members, and other stakeholders. The agenda aims to address the challenges that deny individuals the freedom to stay, move, work, transform, and thrive, and reflects potential solutions identified by the immigrant justice movement for addressing these challenges.
September 2022
Webinar
Program
Find all program-related materials for GCIR Webinar, "Strategies for Advancing Pro-immigrant Policies", here, including recording and powerpoint.
September 2022
Program Materials
Resource
While there has been a long history of efforts to erase and exclude immigrants, BIPOC, and other marginalized communities, this timeline shows how powerfully communities in Texas have resisted. From Indigenous nations fighting to preserve their culture to BIPOC communities organizing to end the criminalization of Black and Brown lives, people have sought to protect their freedom to move, stay, work, and thrive.
May 2022
Infographic
Resource
This strategy session is designed for funders engaged in and committed to supporting immigrant power building strategies.
June 2021
Webinar
Program
The second quarterly meeting of GCIR's California Immigrant Integration Initiative (CIII).
May 2021
Group Meeting
Program
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