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“Whoever guides someone to goodness will have a reward like the one who did it.”
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
This campaign will collect all funds raised by January 21, 2018 at 6:45 AM EDT
The Mission of Muslim Community Link (MCL) is to foster positive interactions and advance community integration by providing quality educational, wellness and referral services for all members, inclusive of the most marginalized within the Muslim Community.
Our Vision is of community in which all members are receiving necessary support, have a sense of belonging, and have achieved or are empowered to achieve physical, mental, and social wellness.
Our Values of compassion, growth, and justice guide MCL’s service to the community.
We're the organization that brings you Black Seed Farmers Market on a weekly basis, and continues to connect community members of diverse backgrounds with each other, as well as with local farmers, some of whom are recent immigrants and/or refugees in order to foster wellness, belonging, and a supportive local economy around healthy food. The market empowers community members to take their health into their own hands through access to healthier food choices.
Please help us now, as we need to strengthen a very crucial aspect of community support: Referral & Support Services.
Your donations will enable us to hire full-time staff for our Referral & Support Services so that we can sustainably help the marginalized immigrant & Muslim community!
To date we have 1 contractor, & 2 part-time staff (one of whom is a youth employee!). Yes, last summer we employed 14 youth, but those were just for summer jobs at the Black Seed Farmers Market. What we really need now is your support to enable us to sustain year-round full-time staffing. Our executive director is paid at $15/hr for just 10 hours a week. She does well over 40 hours, yet is paid for only a fraction of that. In order to continue helping our community in a financially stable way, we need to be able to at least pay our executive director and just one other individual full-time hours for running our Referral & Support Services.
Our Executive Director's work and volunteers' work goes towards:
This is what your money is going to support! Getting families into homes & situations they can afford so that they can lead healthy, safe, & financially sustainable lives.
What our executive director and volunteer staff do takes time, effort, & expertise. With over 25+ years of experience, our staff is well equipped to do this work - but they cannot continue to do this work sustainably with no pay. They all have homes, mouths, and lives to pay for as well. Please support our staff as they support the community.
Sister Mukhtiar, a single-mom, who after over two years of bouncing from domestic violence shelters to friends' homes, is pictured here signing a lease for her own subsidized apartment for her and her daughter. MCL supported Mukhtiar and her daughter through the shelter & court system throughout the 2 years, and advocated for them & supported them in getting into subsidized housing.
Throughout her time in and out of shelter with her daughter, Sister Mukhtiar was without work. Before getting her own apartment, MCL was able to help her find employment, which she still holds today, over a year later.
Sister Mukhtiar is just one of many women and families who we've supported over the life of MCL. Please enable us to help more families!
Supporter
Your donation helps us to cover costs like our website and e-mail address, which are crucial to making the community aware of our services and providing community members access to our staff so that families & individuals can receive referral & support services.
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Supporter
Your donation helps us to cover costs like our bookkeeping services, which are crucial to keeping our organization in good standing and accountable to the community.
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Supporter
Your donation helps us to cover fringe costs like payroll taxes for our paid staff's wages. Our paid staff and volunteer staff are what enable impact. Paid staff wages are what enable this work to be long-lasting and sustainable.
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Safe Home Moving Provider
$100 moves one family to a safe and secure home. This requires community volunteers to aid these families in moving their belongings from their current living situation, whether currently in a shelter and moving to a new safe home, or currently in a dangerous home and moving to a shelter and in need of a place to store their belongings. For each move, a U-Haul moving truck with gas and mileage costs MCL roughly $100 or more. Please enable MCL to continue safely housing families and individuals in our community.
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Healthy Meals Provider
On a yearly and monthly basis, our MCL Referral & Support staff, consisting of 1 part-time staff and 2 volunteers, assist multiple families and individuals who have low-incomes, with accessing public assistance benefits. These benefits include those such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which on average, provide qualifying households with $255 per month to purchase food. Some of the families and individuals our staff work with speak little to no English and have an extremely difficult time completing basic forms to request assistance. Many have fallen on hard times and are not aware of how to even access public assistance benefits. Our staff provide the expertise and the interpreting and translation services to assist and empower them to request benefits. Enable our organization to pay our staff to assist and advocate for the basic human right of food for the families and individuals in our community in need of support.
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Staff Supporter
Our organization would go no where without our paid staff and volunteer staff. Your donation enables us to ensure the safety of our staff by helping us to afford liability insurance & disability insurance, should mistakes and/or injuries happen on the job. The work of social service workers often goes unpaid and unrecognized. If we are to be an organization that is guided by Justice, Compassion, and Growth, and that yearns for a community in which all its members have achieved or are empowered to achieve social, physical, and mental wellness, then we must also provide the same to our paid and volunteer staff.
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Home Heating & Energy Provider
Every year, our MCL Referral & Support staff, consisting of 1 part-time staff and 2 volunteers, assist multiple families and individuals who have low-incomes, with accessing public assistance benefits. These benefits include those such as Home Energy Assistance, which provide as much as $770 per household for heating and energy costs for subsidized housing tenants. Some of the families and individuals our staff work with speak little to no English and have an extremely difficult time completing basic forms to request assistance. Many have fallen on hard times and are not aware of how to even access public assistance benefits. Our staff provide the expertise and the interpreting and translation services to assist and empower them to request benefits. Enable our organization to pay our staff to assist and advocate for the basic human right of warm shelter for the families and individuals in our community in need of support.
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Home Provider for a Family &/or Individual
Nearly every month of the year, MCL works with a different family and/or individual in need of shelter to escape domestic violence or in need of shelter or housing assistance because of financial insecurity and other life challenges. The majority of the families in need of support & resources with are women with children. $1000 enables us to house and shelter a family for a month and allocate the necessary staffing to take these families through the domestic violence shelter, emergency shelter, and/or subsidized housing processes.
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Community Builder
Our community building programs like Black Seed Farmers Market & the Parent-Child Playgroup require undivided attention from professionals who care about children, youth, families, and community. The children, youth, and families that partake in our community building programs are often times from the same families who receive resource & support assistance from our Referral & Support Services staff, allowing these families to have a sense of community belonging. $2500 enables us to cover the costs of employing an individual for several hours a week to appropriately plan & implement a single community building program for 26 weeks.
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Peer Support & Meeting Provider
Your donation enables us to pay for an office year-round where we can have one-on-one support meetings with individuals and families (who we call "peers") about their needs, and an office where staff can work, meet, and stay organized.
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— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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Giving is better together! Your share could raise over $77.
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“Whoever guides someone to goodness will have a reward like the one who did it.”
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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Giving is better together! Your share could raise over $77.
https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/mcl_referral__support_services
“Whoever guides someone to goodness will have a reward like the one who did it.”
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
