Let's shape our moral footprint on this soil.
MA'RUF is calling on you to partner with us in building our footprint on our nation's soil. Here are three main reasons to make the ultimate investment in MA'RUF...
1 In an era of Islamophobia, fear, mistrust and backlash against Islam and Muslims, MA'RUF is showing our country what Islam looks like in action. Our outwardly-focused programs have raised eyebrows with each homeless kit handed, each piece of trash picked up, each tree we planted, each elderly resident we played checkers with, each refugee we landed jobs for and each inner-city student we coached.
2 Our youth are facing the most intense levels of peer-pressure and identity crises ever experienced. MA'RUF has provided a safe platform for our youth to grow in moral leadership, learn social responsibility, enact the teachings of the Qur'an and Sunnah and build self-confidence and self-esteem. The MA'RUF experience has also been shown to help young Muslims in their professional careers, through the adoption of Lean six-sigma, change management (Kotter), project management and public speaking.
3 We do not believe in enabling people who can otherwise make the effort to develop themselves. Our approach to eliminating poverty is to develop people so that they may be self-sustaining. Our TOPS program, backed by research, thrives to invest in the education of our inner-city's younger generation so that they find in it an alternative to vices on the streets. Our approach to refugee resettlement focuses on job-placement, work-ethic, self direction and sustainability so that our families will be stable and re-invest in our community downstream.