What Your Donation Supports

Entertainment Media 

Consulting on TV & Film Projects: The MPAC® Hollywood Bureau is hired by studios, networks, and production companies to ensure authentic, nuanced Muslim representation. We review scripts and provide pre-production and on-set notes. We consult on topics ranging from Islamic history and art to civil rights, family, and foreign affairs.

Connecting Muslim Talent to a Network of Decision-Makers, Muslim & Non-Muslim: The MPAC® Hollywood Bureau nurtures American Muslim talent by creating opportunities to hone their craft and share their stories. Through screenwriting labs, commission, fellowships, roundtables, networking events, and direct introductions, we connect creatives with industry professionals. 

Contributing our Thought Leadership: The MPAC® Hollywood Bureau advances authentic Muslim representation by writing and publishing Op-Eds, organizing and speaking on entertainment industry panels, presentations to executives & writers’ rooms, and creating toolkits for major studios. 

Creating Short Form Content: The MPAC® Hollywood Bureau creates content in the form of short films and shareable social media videos to shift narratives about Muslims in entertainment media. We are planning on launching a production arm to create long form content (features/television series).

Celebrating Voices of Courage and Conscience: The MPAC® Media Awards honor people and projects who promote inclusion and social justice through their craft.

The Muslim House®, is founded and presented by the MPAC® Hollywood Bureau. It is a cultural hub where American Muslim storytellers and allies come together at major film festivals to learn, collaborate, and create. For more information on The Muslim House®, please visit mpachollywoodbureau.org.

This Ramadan, also stand up for justice, dignity, and equal rights.

Across the United States, American Muslims are repeatedly encountering discrimination, confronted with disinformation, and are on the receiving end of targeted attacks on their civil liberties. When anti-Muslim hatred strikes, our community needs rapid support and strong advocacy from trusted leadership to protect those civil liberties and obtain justice, working with powerful coalitions and unexpected allies to advance our mission. For nearly 40 years, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has been on the front lines defending Muslim civil rights, protecting our civic engagement, and relentlessly pushing back against hate.

This Ramadan, we humbly ask you to stand with us and donate today.

Why This Campaign, Why Now: 

• Current-day anti-Muslim rhetoric has become institutionalized, prevalent even in our most educated crowds.
• Perpetual bigotry aimed at Muslim students in academic institutions.
• Mosques targeted by hate crimes and misinformation.
• Public narratives that distort and decontextualize who we are and what we stand for.
• Bills and policies are introduced at the state and federal levels that quietly erode our constitutional protections.

MPAC does not wait until damage is done. We respond, defend, educate, and prevent.

Your support this Ramadan helps ensure American Muslims are treated with dignity, fairness, and equal protection under the law. 

Policy & Government Work

The Center for Government Impact
MPAC works relentlessly to shape policy, defend civil liberties, and counter harmful legislation at the federal and state levels.

Analyzing and Tracking Legislation
We monitor bills and government actions that impact American Muslim communities and broader human rights protections. Our analysis determines where we apply pressure and where we mobilize partners.

Building Strategic Coalitions
We convene faith leaders, civil rights organizations, and advocacy partners to move policy ideas into action and shift national narratives when it matters most.

Recent Impact

• Secured seven bill co-sponsorships for the Block the Bombs initiative
• Supported the defeat of the “Non-Profit Killer Bill” and opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act in its harmful form
• Built coalitions to increase co-sponsors on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval
• Pressured narrative shifts in congressional hearings, including direct engagement with Rep. Mark DeSaulnier

Campus & Civic Defense

Center for First Amendment

MPAC pushes educational institutions and public agencies to operate with fairness, transparency, and meaningful consequences when rights are violated. Our First Amendment Center safeguards free speech, religious liberty, and due process — especially when Muslim students are unfairly targeted.

Case Study: Harvard Students Vindicated

At Harvard University, students Elom Tettey-Tamaklo and Ibrahim Bharmal faced baseless assault and battery charges from the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office after serving as peacekeepers during a peaceful protest. MPAC was the first organization to champion its case, leading a coordinated advocacy effort supported by more than 50 organizations nationwide.

By July 25, 2025, all remaining charges were formally dismissed.

Other Wins

• Student Degrees reinstated at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Accountability reviews initiated at the University of California, Berkeley
• Partnership with the NAACP to advance campus demilitarization efforts
• Technology, Disinformation & Policy

MPAC’s sustained advocacy forced the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office to finally take action and file charges against Edan On, who was caught on video violently assaulting pro-Palestinian students at UCLA, and dismissing charges against nearly 300 pro-Palestinian students advocating for justice. After nearly a year of inaction and with the statute of limitations just days from expiring, our relentless public pressure ensured that this case would not be buried without consequence. 
 

The Center for Security, Technology, and Policy (CSTP)

In an era where digital misinformation fuels real-world harm, CSTP works to ensure accurate narratives, protect the integrity of public information, and confront organized anti-Muslim hate.

Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-Muslim Hate Online
CSTP develops AI tools to track known and emerging sources of Islamophobic rhetoric across social media platforms.

Big Tech Accountability Initiative
We push technology companies to address disinformation responsibly and prevent amplification of harmful content.

Threat Surveillance & Community Protection
We safeguard against unwarranted surveillance practices that disproportionately target Muslim communities and mosques, while equipping institutions with proactive strategies to respond to threats.

Key Wins

• Hundreds of extremist and violence-inciting users have been identified and monitored
• Got a DOJ investigation dropped and helped defeat two state bills targeting EPIC City
• 27 mosques briefed and equipped to respond to coordinated harassment campaigns
• Launched the YouTube Priority Flagger program

Punching Above Our Weight

MPAC is one of the smallest-funded organizations in this ecosystem — yet we are consistently at the table on Capitol Hill, shaping national narratives and securing tangible wins in government, education, and technology.

Your generosity today protects our communities tomorrow.

Your donation to the Muslim Public Affairs Council is zakat eligible, tax-deductible (501(c)(3)) and directly advances the interests of Islam and Muslims in America — defending civil rights, safeguarding constitutional freedoms, and strengthening our collective future. State Charitable Disclosures can be found at the bottom of any page on our website.

Stand with us. Protect what matters.