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Education

Education is key to enabling hope for our young people. It can help them to take their dreams to reality. Aspirations are realized with quality, well balanced and broad-based education is combined with grounded moral principles and instilled at all levels of the educational spectrum.

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Through a broad and diverse spectrum of mediums including, media, written and visual publications, workshops, civic engagement, sponsorship, and interfaith dialogue. AFF seeks to support the most creative and innovative platforms and minds that promote and cultivate cultural awareness, understanding and empathy, opening doors to equal access and opportunity in society. Additionally, we believe in supporting programs that develop the emotional well being of our youth so that they are equipped to navigate the everchanging and uncertain world in which we live.

  • Unity Productions Foundation
    Mission:

    Website: https://www.upf.tv/films/

    AFF is proud to continue to support Unity Productions Foundation’s work to counter bigotry and create greater understanding between Muslims and people of different faiths and cultures by using the power of narrative media. Over the past decade, AFF has funded UPF’s widely recognized and successful films highlighted below:

    - The Emmy-Nominated Sultan and the Saint: A Story of Muslim-Christian Peacemaking. During the height of the Crusades, a meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt was followed by a heroic act of compassion and understanding by both, which turned the tide of history toward peace. (Jeremy Irons narrates)

    -The Great Muslim American Road Trip: A Muslim couple travels historic Route 66 to learn stories of Muslim builders, bakers and skyscraper makers enriching American culture and life.

    - Enemy of the Reich. A quiet, shy girl from a spiritual family named Noor Inayat Khan joins Winston Churchill's spy network to fight the Nazi's. (Helen Mirren narrates)

    - Prince Among Slaves - Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, a West African Prince, is enslaved in Mississippi but keeps his faith through his trying life. His mistaken identity leads him to a meeting with the President of the United States and his life symbolizes the intellectual and spiritual contribution of the enslaved Africans in America. (Mos Def narrates).

    - American Muslims Fact v Fiction – A data-based film that tackles the most common stereotypes about Muslims and looks at some of the contributions that the community has been made, using data from Gallup, Pew, and other sources.

    - Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World, an exploration the creative contribution of Muslims through the themes the written word (Quran and calligraphy), space (mosques and architecture), and light (the marriage of art and technology). Susan Sarandon narrates.

    - Lamya's Poem: A Syrian refugee girl in the present meets Rumi, the famous poet, as a young refugee boy 800 years in the past. They work to fight the demons inside and outside and find a place of hope, and a new home.

  • HEART
    Mission: To promote sexual health, uproot gendered violence, and advance reproductive justice by establishing choice and access for the most impacted Muslims.

    Past and ongoing support: In a severely underserved demographic and highly culturally sensitive area throughout Muslim communities not just abroad, AFF is a supporter and advocate for HEART’s mission and programs that work to foster healing, understanding, and awareness through its educational programs. In 2023-2024 AFF will support a new pilot program of HEART in the development and implementation of a curriculum and workshop series equipping college-aged youth with the information they need to make informed decisions about their health and safety. Topics that these interactive workshops will cover can include but are not limited to:
    • Healthy relationships
    • Gender-based violence consent/li>
    • Reproductive justice/li>
    • Sexual and reproductive health, and leadership development./li>


    Website: https://hearttogrow.org

  • Islamic Scholarship Fund (ISF)
    Mission: ISF increases American Muslim representation in media and government to improve public policy and public opinion. We believe that the interests of our community can only be protected if we are part of the policy-making process. ISF scholars and alumni across the country and world are ensuring our voices are heard.

    Website: https://islamicscholarshipfund.org/
  • Pearl S Buck International (PSBI)
    Mission: Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author and a driving force in humanitarian causes. She was a longtime advocate of cross-cultural understanding and racial harmony as a means of achieving world peace. We continue her legacy of bridging cultures and changing lives through intercultural education, humanitarian aid, and sharing the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark Museum.

    AFF supports PSBI in its work to increase cultural competency throughout the globe.

    Website: https://pearlsbuck.org/
  • PSBI Global Leadership Program
    Mission: AI works with government officials and civic leaders to promote a racially and religiously inclusive nation. At America Indivisible, we strive for a nation in which Muslims and those perceived as Muslim enjoy equal rights and participate fully in public life.

    Website: https://www.americaindivisible.org/