Grants

To support Indigenous Islam: Exploring the Narratives of Native American Muslims.

To support the “Yes, And... Laughter Lab,” a competitive incubation lab and pitch program co-directed by CMSI and Moore + Associates, with the goal of elevating American Muslim and BIPOC ...

To support “Jingle Truck in Cyberspace and Beyond,” the expansion of a mobile art project to share the culture and art of the Pakistani Jingle Truck.

To support the development of “Eleven Reflections on the Nation,” a national series of performance and digital works reflecting on the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

To support “Khamsa,” a visual and musical journey through the five stages of grief to highlight the stigmatization of mental health issues.

To support “Building Bridges Through Spoken Word and Dance,” a performance series featuring two Arab artists and “Dancing to Connect” workshops for refugee and non-refugee youth in Houston.

To support the Starfish Accelerator, a creative intellectual property accelerator investing in original projects from mid-career BIPOC storytellers.

To support the “Shahrazad Squad,” a collective of Bay Area-based Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian women engaged in social change and finding resilience through story-sharing, and to grow ...

To support “Building Bridges: Black Muslims in America,” part of an ongoing presentation and residency initiative by Duke Performances and the Duke Islamic Studies Center showcasing the cultural contributions of ...

To support Public Narrative trainings, which will convene American Muslim and ally artists and cultural influencers, Black leaders and movement builders, mental health experts and frontline health workers, philanthropists and ...

To support “Manuscripts of the Muslim World,” a multi-faceted collaboration with Philadelphians who have cultural or spiritual connections to Islam, particularly Philadelphia’s Indigenous Black Muslim community, based on the Free ...

To support PBS Wisconsin and their project partners, the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition and the We Are Many - United Against Hate network, to use storytelling and community conversation as ...