COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS

As we are invited to provide workshops in each city, we coordinate and interface with many existing community organizations, non-Muslim organizations, Councils of Imams or Shura Councils, and the few shelters that exist to serve Muslim women's needs throughout the country, such as NISWA in CA, Hamdard Institute in IL, and Baitul Salam in GA, as well as with the several organizations that do partial work on this issue, or whose focus is directly geared to domestic violence. Muslim community workshops have been completed in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, DC.

Some of these organizations are Muslim such as the Muslim Family and Human Services Center in Dallas, TX; the Muslim Women’s Association in Denver, CO; The Committee on Domestic Harmony in Long Island, NY; Muslim Women Against Violence in OH; Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO), All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), and Foundation for Appropriate and Immediate Temporary Help (FAITH) in Virginia; Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights in DC; RAHIMA and Stepping Together, both in San Francisco, CA; Sista2Sista in Philadelphia, PA; and the Mosque Foundation in Chicago, IL.

We also collaborate with ethnic and secular organizations, such as Legal Momentum, the Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project, the Maryland Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Washington, DC; Apna Ghar and the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network in Chicago, IL; Manavi in New Brunswick, NJ; Sakhi, and the Arab Family Center in New York City, NY; Chaya in Seattle, WA; SAHARA and the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade County in Miami, FL, Asha in Bethesda, MD; and the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence in San Francisco, CA.