Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)'s latest report discusses the major electoral impact that California’s immigrants and their children will have, potentially representing fully one-third of the electorate within four years. (May 2008)

This toolkit from Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees seeks to inform the development of program, policy and grantmaking strategies to promote immigrant integration. (September 2006)

This KQED documentary examines the economic impact of immigration in the San Francisco Bay Area (June 2006)

This short documentary film, produced by the COLAGE Youth Leadership and Action Program during a 10-month activism training program in San Francisco, is an excellent tool for raising awareness and making the case for same-sex marriage in schools, community centers, churches, legislative offices and more.

Immigration Equality and Human Rights Watch investigate cases of discrimination and abuse by immigration officials in their landmark report, Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law. (May 2006)

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"California's Afterschool Expansion: The planning for implementation of Proposition 49 and considerations for planners in other states," released by the William T. Grant Foundation, tells how California mobilized to implement the largest state-funded expansion of after-school services in the nation's history. (June 2007)

Team-Up for Youth, a grantee of the Haas, Jr. Fund, is profiled in this report about creating strong citywide delivery systems for quality after school programs from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (July 2006)

Public/Private Ventures has compiled ten years' worth of experiences, challenges and lessons learned to shed light on the most pressing issues facing after-school programs. At the center of "Getting It Right: Strategies for After-School Success" is a discussion on how to create and manage programs that can produce specific, policy-relevant outcomes. (September 2005)

The Urban Institute recently released its study on board governance of small to mid-size nonprofits, a cohort that is often overlooked. As senior program officer Linda Wood explains in her foreword, this reflection is critical, "as our sector continues to focus on stronger leadership as a pathway to improved performance of nonprofits." (May 2008)

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' latest report, The Departing: Exiting Nonprofit Leaders as Resources for Social Change, presents new research on how departing nonprofit executives are thinking about their futures and continuing to work for community good and social change. (November 2007)

Investing In Leadership, Vol. 2 from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations considers strategies to support nonprofit leadership as a means to improve organizational performance. It includes a foreward by Sylvia Yee, Vice President of Programs at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. (February 2006)

Investing In Leadership, Vol. 1 from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations provides a grantmaker's framework for understanding nonprofit leadership development. (June 2005)