This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every time Ana Ponce drives down the highway between Los Angeles and San Diego, she’s haunted by a childhood memory: Her night in lockup — the sterile white room, the…
The census comes around every ten years, but ensuring communities are represented equitably happens every day in between. Lifting the voices of underrepresented communities, bringing together diverse groups, building capacity,…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This report from Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees profiles 10 donor programs with a range of successful approaches that support refugees and asylum-seekers. • How can other donor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On September 15, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was planting flowers outside the gas station he owned in Mesa, Arizona, when Frank Silva Roque, a white Boeing aircraft mechanic, saw Sodhi’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During this convening that brought together grassroots leaders from Central America, Mexico, and the US, the hosts asked how funders could be better allies to civil society organisations in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Humanitarian actors are increasingly recognizing the need to shift focus from providing refugees with immediate assistance to promoting their ability to obtain sustained self-reliance. Until now, we haven’t had a comprehensive tool…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In June of 2018, two Monterey County site inspectors visited a Salinas cannabis farm, where they encountered a small group of farmworkers who they suspected had been trafficked. The farmworkers,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oklahoma recently joined several other states in requiring students to pass the same citizenship test administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in order to graduate from high school. The measure was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The global fashion and retail industry’s reliance on producing quick-turnaround goods at a low cost through outsourcing and complex, globalised supply chains has allowed forced labour to thrive, workers’ rights…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. June was a month of strong employment gains. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Employment Situation Summary, the economy added 850,000 jobs between mid-May and mid-June, well…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) reflects on how they worked to support the movement for immigrant justice in 2020. • How can funders and organizations ensure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You’d be hard-pressed to find many positives from Melbourne’s latest, six-week COVID-19 lockdown. But increased economic and employment opportunities for migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker women is one of them.…