ISLAMIC-AMERICAN ZAKAT FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
The Islamic-American Zakat Foundation's primary mission is assess, collect, and distribute Islamic voluntary and mandatory charity to help the poor and needy in the United States with housing, utilities medicine, transportation, and with referrals and counseling to help them to achieve self-sufficiency.
About This Cause
The Islamic-American Zakat Foundation was founded in 1987 to provide help to Muslims in America in fulfilling their obligations to purify their wealth by helping the poor and needy and others in special circumstances. The Muslims are a single community and we are all brothers and sisters of perfect equality before God (Allah) except as our piety distinguishes one from another. The Islamic-American Zakat Foundation has helped hundreds of poor and needy Muslims from coast to coast in times of difficulty. We were the first Islamic charity to be accepted into the Combined Federal Campaign. We were the first Islamic charity affiliated with Local Independent Charities of America. We cooperate with other Islamic organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, FAITH, the Minaret of Freedom Institute, and various mosques to maximize effectiveness. We send money abroad through other 501(c)(3) organizations for emergency disaster relief. Our MEDINA program provides counseling and referral services to help applicants to achieve self-sufficiency. Through these efforts some of our zakat recipients have been turned into zakat donors. Our da'wa program provides Qur'ans to prisoners and hospital patients and promotes a better understanding of Islam. And we do it without one cent of government money--ANY GOVERNMENT. We are completely independent so we can work with the entire Muslim community. We do it with donations from people like you. Small donations and large donations. From Muslims who care about Muslims. From Muslims who seek to please Allah. We are told by contributors who give through their workplace campaigns that some of their non-Muslim coworkers donate to us through their workplace campaigns in order to entrust their charitable donations to a reliable institution. The Zakat Foundation helps to assess and distribute zakat and sadaqa. We document the worthiness of recipients and distribute donations directly to the poor and needy or use the money towards paying their debts for fuel and housing, etc. Funds received in the past year have gone to feed the poor and homeless in the mid-Atlantic region, and elsewhere in America, to help to feed and clothe Palestinian children, to help orphans, to prevent unemployed families from losing their homes, and to relieve the difficulties of stranded travelers. We work cooperatively with mosques and with other agencies helping the poor and needy.