Inner-City Muslim Action Network

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing for urban populations by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. Rami Nashishibi, Executive Director of IMAN, is partnering with New York vocalist Drea D’Nur to write and produce an album that focuses on love, racial and social justice, and the struggle of historically marginalized populations. IMAN is building a tour for the album that includes live performances, artist residencies in each tour city that explore racial and social healing, and a documentary film that follows the artists and communities coming together to heal. The award provides project support to IMAN as it culminates the This Love Thing tour project.

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing for urban populations by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. Rami Nashishibi, Executive Director of IMAN, teamed up with New York vocalist Drea D’Nur to write and produce an album that focuses on love, racial and social justice, and the struggle of Black Americans and other underrepresented populations. IMAN is building a national tour for the album that includes live performances, artist residencies in each tour city that explore racial and social healing, and a documentary film that follows the artists and communities coming together to heal. The award provides project support to IMAN as it embarks on its This Love Thing Tour.

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing for urban populations by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. IMAN intertwines arts and creative practices with its broader advocacy, organizing, and leadership development work. This award provides general operating support to IMAN as part of the Foundation’s Culture, Equity, and the Arts program.

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing in the inner-city. It offers programs and services that further community development, reduce violence, and support cross-cultural understanding. With this award, IMAN staff travels to Denver, Colorado, to participate in a conference session on humanizing racial equity work at the national Grantmakers in the Arts conference.

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a 20 year-old community organization headquartered in Chicago that operates a health center; supports formerly incarcerated individuals with job training programs and temporary housing; serves as a community resource; and advocates for the urban working poor. With this award for institutional support, IMAN deepens its investment in its communications infrastructure, provides additional board training, especially as it relates to raising money, and grows its cash reserve.