October 22nd, 2024
Durham NC early voting polling place with short lines is being overlooked
The Zakat Foundation is a recently added polling place. The wait times will worsen as the November 2 early voting deadline approaches. Please get the word out.
September 19th, 2024
Global Islamic Finance Summit 2024: Leading Islamic financial institutions gather
To discuss digital transformation, green sukuk and social finance
September 9th, 2024
Chicago’s migrant crisis in spotlight as Democrats prepare for convention
The buses full of migrants arriving from Texas have disappeared. Shelter beds are increasingly empty. And homeless newcomers with nowhere else to go are no longer crowding airports and police stations.
August 19th, 2024
Global nonprofit steps in to run a migrant shelter in Chicago
A former Catholic school in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood is now open as a migrant shelter. This shelter is managed by a global nonprofit with experience helping refugees.
August 6th, 2024
Ambassador Bah, executive director of Zakat Foundation discuss investment in The Gambia
His Excellency Momodou Lamin Bah, Ambassador of The Gambia to the United States of America, recently received in his office the Executive Director of Zakat Foundation of America, Mr. Halil Demir.
July 10th, 2024
Community organizations still asking for support, as families recover from house explosion
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — It's been three weeks since a family's home exploded on Carbon Street in Syracuse, sparked by an uncapped gas valve in the basement.
June 24th, 2024
Community prays for victims after gas leak causes house explosion on Carbon Street
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Upstate Hospital confirms that five people, including three children, remain in critical condition after a gas leak caused an explosion in a house on Carbon Street, leading to it collapsing.
June 24th, 2024
'You can imagine the trauma': Update on collapsed house victims
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — On June 18, tragedy struck two families that were celebrating a religious holiday at a home in Syracuse's Northside.
June 20th, 2024
Mayor Johnson must end migrant shelter evictions, Latino aldermen say
Chicago’s policy of evicting migrants living in shelters after a 60-day stay needs to end, the City Council’s Latino Caucus told Mayor Brandon Johnson in a letter Monday.
June 20th, 2024
Zakat Foundation Distributes Qurbani Meat in New York City
The United States Charity Organization, Zakat Foundation of America, has successfully distributed Qurbani meat to families across four boroughs in New York City.
June 13th, 2024
Shelter for migrants in families opens at St. Bartholomew Church in Portage Park
CHICAGO (WLS) -- City and county leaders attended a welcome party on Tuesday for asylum-seekers who have a new home in a Portage Park shelter.
June 13th, 2024
Officials celebrate migrant shelter opening in Portage Park
Mayor Brandon Johnson and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle stood among elected officials Tuesday night hailing the opening of a shelter for newly-arrived migrants in the Portage Park neighborhood
