How often do you have the opportunity in life to make a difference, no matter how small the charity? These moments surround us but many times we overlook them in our complexity, when the solution is simple. The biggest healing often times come from the smallest kindnesses. This is what the core value of Al Maun Fund expresses. The small kindnesses that make the largest difference in the healing of people – financially, emotionally and most importantly spiritually. Here is a small list of the cases that Al Maun Fund is attempting to help today.

cr.1259 Mother of (3) requests help with utility bill.$250.00
cr.1260 A sister needs help paying her car registration and tags to maintain employment, $100.00
cr.1262 Mother of (2), limited income seeks aid to avoid utility shut-off. $300.0
cr.1263 Mother of (4), suffered from domestic violence, needs help paying rent. $289.00
cr.1264 Expectant mother (with one other young child with her) is currently in safe house due to physical harm.She is working until she delivers which is within the next month. She needs basic items for her two children, including a stroller.

You can donate specifically to these families, referencing the CR # or you can donate to the General Fund for Al Maun Fund that will assist with other families and overhead costs.

Please remember that it is first by Allaah’s Rahmah, then His softening of the believer’s heart to give that allows us to help people on a daily basis.

Please continue to Help us help others insha’allah.

Donate
http://www.almaunfund.org/index.php?option=com_jdonation&view=donation&Itemid=204

Thank you all for supporting the email drive of Baabun Nasr Thrift Shop, it’s completed by the grace of Allah, Alhamdulillah.

Not only that, but Walmart Foundation recently selected them for a $10,000 grant, mashaAllah tabarakaAllah.

as-salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu,

We’re very happy to say that we have reached our goal! We thank Allah subhanahu wa t’ala and then we thank the staff at Half Date for their assistance.

We have raised a total of $1,015.00 from 25 contributors Wal-hamdulilaah
$100 via google checkout
$40 cash donation received today
$775 received via chipin
$100.00 e-check payment donation received today.

May Allah bless you!

Umm Tahir Hakimah

The online giving study covers:

• $381 million in online giving
• 3.6 million gifts
• 1.879 million unique donors
• 66,470 different nonprofits
• Seven-year time span (2003-2009)
• Donations to a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types

Bismillah

Meet for Meat is a project to distribute the Qurban/Udhiya meat to needy Muslims.

The project has three goals:
-Encouraging Muslims to offer their Qurban locally
-Reviving the Sunnah of sharing the meat
-Reviving the Sunnah of eating the meat during Eid Al-Adha and the following 3 days.

We are going to replicate this project in different cities. Please share your experience if you did a similar meat distribution project.

Why offering your Qurban locally instead of sending it overseas?

An interview with Alamaanah officer about their Meet for Meat project for 1430/2009

Assalaamu Alaikum

Since HalfDate is a very inspirational project and cause to me and many others around the world…I wanted to share this story with all of the HalfDate community – if you deem it suitable – to inspire them…especially children!

There are two children, Luba (8yrs) and Bilal (almost 7yrs), who live in a community that doesn’t have many Muslims. Despite that, they have been striving to learn about the deen with the help of their Mom, and have recently started performing their 5 daily prayers regularly, and for the first time were able to fast in Ramadaan for the full (LONG) day (in Canada). And since they have learned that Ramadaan is the month of giving, they took up a special Ramadaan project…they made Eid greeting cards and sold them to their close family members, and they are donating all the funds they made from their sales for sadaqah. [And the $30 donation I'm sending on their behalf is the money they have collectively made so far selling their cards].

We hope, that by sharing their story, Luba and Bilal will be encouraged to continue keeping their prayers, fasting, and doing acts of charity; and that it will inspire other children from all around the world to take up little projects and use them to raise funds for good causes, and that family and friends support children around them and encourage them to do good.

Attached are some pictures of the cards they made.

Jazaakumullaahu khairan.

I will be sending the funds to HalfDate shortly in shaa’ Allaah.

Wassalaamu Alaikum

Click here to see our current drive

So over on Sadaqah Buffet DateDrive, we have a weekly poll and this is the result for week 1.

Top 3 winners:
1- Al-Amaanah $500
2- Al-Maun Fund $500
3- Baitul Salaam $500

Thank you for all HalfDaters who helped.

I spoke with the reviewer for our 501c application earlier this afternoon, and she informed me that we were approved for our tax-exempt status, Allahu Akbar! We should receive our official letter in less then (2) weeks… I wanted to share the good news with you since you have helped us so much (Barakallahu feekum)

HalalTrip.com is a travel review site that can come handy for Muslim travelers because they rate hotels in aspects that Muslim consumers care about such as halal food, segregated swimming pools, etc. Recently, they have purchased an advertisement with our Sister service HalalBuzz.com and we ran it for them on Facebook and 1/3 of the donations (as always for HalalBuzz) went to Sadaqah.

This Ramadan, HalalTrip is having a Review for a Charity Campaign where they donate $1 for each review you submit. Again they approached HalalBuzz, Alhamdulilah, and  hopefully they will give the donation to some projects listed on a HalfDate drive.

So if you’d like to help, please submit a review.  As well as helping other Muslim travelers, because of your review $1will be given as Sadaqah, inshaAllah.

Read Halal Trips’ media release below:

Ramadan campaign: Reviews for charity
Vienna – For Muslims around the world Ramadan is the most notable time of the year. Beside fasting and praying during the night giving “sadaqqa” to people in need is a major part of this month.
Hence, halaltrip (http://www.halaltrip.com), a Muslim-friendly & halal hotel review site, contributes something special to the most wonderful time of the year: “Reviews for charity”. For each published hotel review on halaltrip in the month of Ramadan the hotel review site will donate 1$ USD for charity.

“We hopefully can reach 500 reviews and will then decide whether to continue or not. Giving ‘sadaqqa’ in such a blessed time is not only a great opportunity for us but for each and everyone writing a hotel review”, says Karim Saad, founder of halaltrip.

halaltrip is a hotel review site available in English, Turkish, German and French listing hotels around the world with special services for Muslims. Users can search and rate their favorite hotels and check out the huge amount of travel stuff. halaltrip was founded in late summer 2009 and went online in March 2010.

HalfDate has already advanced $1000 loans to Almaun. They are still in need, click to give.

UPDATED August 3, 2010

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Mother of (6) has water bill she needs help with. She was receiving child support, but that has stopped, and her she also lost her job. $162.00

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Widowed grandmother, has custody of (2) young grandchildren. She is seeking help to get a house phone and for electric bill. $319.00
UPDATE Her electric bill has been resolved, but family still needs help with phone $100.00

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New muslimah requests book packet $35.00

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Mother of (2), maintains family from child support, have not received payment. She is asking for help with rent $46.00 and electric bill $83.67 ($129.87)

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Employed mother struggling to make ends. Her family of (3) needs food. $100.00

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Mother w/one child has secured her own apartment, but needs help with rent deposit ($125) and electric deposit $(188). $313.00

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Expectant mother seeks aid with security deposit. $500.00

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Mother of (5) asks for assistance with house payment $300.00

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Mother w/4 children was (are) living in house that was condemned. She has secured another house, and gave a deposit, but needs additional funds to move in. $500.00

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Couple embraced Islaam, in need of books on Islaam, prayer and purification. $50.00

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Need to locate a decent room or efficiency in Brooklyn, NY, with preferably a muslim landlord. Please email maunfundorg@gmail.com with details.

Al Maun Fund

The brother of http://charityReplay.org/ survived a highway accident with a truck today. “Alhamdulillah that Allah saved me; I should have died. Car is a write-off. Hospital people released me saying I’m ok, minus concussion.” Please make dua for him.