Community
A practical first-month plan for Muslim college students
Find current student contacts and campus spaces without relying on old social posts.
Community
Community
DREAM of Detroit: housing, memory, and neighborhood development
A close look at DREAM of Detroit’s housing rehabilitation, oral-history work, and plans for shared neighborhood infrastructure.
Community
Mosque open houses and the work of being neighbors
Find a public mosque visit, contact the host, and make space for a useful conversation.
Community
Mosques and environmental stewardship in American buildings
Documented energy and water projects in American mosques, from ISNA’s ENERGY STAR partnership to incremental improvements in Milwaukee.
Community
Muslim Community Network and civic participation in New York
Youth learning, institutional education, and documented civic partnerships at New York’s Muslim Community Network.
Community
Building a useful calendar of Muslim community events
A practical method for keeping public event listings current, clear, and easy to act on.
Community
Arranging a school or community-group mosque visit
Prepare an educational visit with clear goals, an agreed program, and useful follow-up work.
Community
Ayub Ommaya: a neurosurgical invention and the research around it
The history of the Ommaya reservoir places a Pakistani American surgeon within NIH research, collaboration, and medical-device development.
Community
Giving, disaster relief, and humanitarian work
Explore Muslim American contributions through recovery teams, housing, refugee support, research, and organized volunteering.
Community
Muslim contributions to healthcare in America
Explore a neurosurgical invention, neighborhood clinics, mental-health institutions, and medical volunteering through five documented stories.
Community
HUDA Clinic: Detroit community organizing made practical
A clinic that began at Detroit’s Muslim Center shows how a local institution can connect volunteers, professional care, and neighborhood needs.
Community
IMANA: a professional network that organized medical service
From a 1967 meeting in Ohio to domestic disaster response, IMANA’s history shows the organizational work behind medical volunteering.
Community
Khalil Center and the institutions of Muslim mental health
Professional care, research, and education show how Muslim mental-health work has developed beyond a single conversation about stigma.
Community
Muslims and everyday neighborhood life
Five documented ways Muslim institutions contribute to American neighborhoods through shared space, housing, civic learning, and environmental work.
Community
Public service and national service
Five ways to explore Muslim American service, from a military chapel and a veterans’ hospital to Congress and diplomacy.
Community
UMMA Health: a student idea that became a South Los Angeles institution
How Muslim medical students helped build a neighborhood healthcare organization, and why its history extends beyond a founding moment.
Community
Muslim disaster-response organizations and the work of recovery
Flood assessments, cleanup, and partnerships show how Muslim organizations contribute to American disaster response.
Community
What research can tell us about Muslim American giving
How to read survey findings about charitable support without turning averages into stereotypes.
Community
Helping newcomers settle through local refugee services
Language classes, transport, employment preparation, and the practical work of building a life in a new community.
Community
How Muslim volunteer networks turn willingness into useful work
From a foster-care mentor to a disaster team, a useful volunteer role has a task, preparation, and a dependable commitment.
Community
ICNA Relief and the work between temporary shelter and a stable home
A closer look at housing, case management, and how to read a charity’s reported results.
Community
Halal Food Resources in the United States
Find an outside halal food directory and learn how to check certification and U.S. origin claims on packaged products.
Community
André Carson and the everyday work of congressional representation
An Indianapolis public-service story told through constituent help, local access, and documented congressional work.
Community
Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad and Muslim military chaplaincy
How Muslim chaplains made a place within military religious support and served people across faiths.
Community
Omer Yigiter and spiritual care for American veterans
A Muslim chaplain’s path from community volunteering to supporting veterans at Northport.
Community
Rashad Hussain and the public work of religious-freedom diplomacy
What a historic Senate confirmation tells us about representation, diplomacy, and responsibility across faiths.
Community
Salman Hamdani and the public memory of a first responder
A Queens College graduate’s life, the uncertainty after September 11, and the institutions preserving his memory.