Zakat Foundation in the United States of America

We have served America’s poor from the founding of our global charity. One of our earliest recipients of aid was the Navajo Indians of Window Rock, Arizona. 

In 2020, we worked to truck more than 1.3 million pounds of farm-picked, fresh produce from coast to coast to poor and deprived communities in dire need. From Minneapolis, where the black community needed aid after the tragic death of George Floyd to the center of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, we worked to bring fresh food to those in need. The fresh food campaign also helped struggling farmers who had been plowing under their harvests due to the coronavirus economic slowdown by buying their produce yields.

We guide refugees in America — educated as professionals (engineers, scientists, academics, degreed specialists) before being forced from their homes — to internships, retraining them for licensing qualifications in their fields of accomplishment and English. We partner with appropriate nonprofits and agencies to help these refugees fully employ their areas of expertise. Now, they stand tall as material contributors — not only to their own households — but beyond this to the development of their local communities.

Our donors have not forgotten children in our cities. Your gifts enabled Zakat Foundation to sponsor two Chicago Youth Centers branches in the integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) program that allows students to hone their creative expression and critical thinking. Students actually invent, build, and bring a product to market in the course of their hands-on workshops with acclaimed instructors. They show a marked improvement in leadership, problem-solving, and increased motivation for learning in and out of the classroom.