Northern California Grantmakers presents:
Inclusive Philanthropic Strategies and Diverse Muslim Populations
Did you know that nearly 250,000 Muslims—one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the United States—live, work and contribute to the economies and communities of the Bay Area? How can funders learn and develop an inclusive philanthropic strategy to address the needs of this growing community?
Over the past two years the One Nation Bay Area Project distributed almost $500,000 to support American Muslims and non-Muslims partnering on community issues to enhance civic engagement in the Bay Area Muslim community. The project also commissioned the Bay Area Muslim Study—Establishing Identity and Community, a report that:
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Provides demographic data about immigrant and native-born Muslims in the bay area;
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Reveals the historical, religious, and cultural context for a community that is often hastily labeled or misrepresented;
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Highlights the strengths and challenges of a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, and socioeconomically diverse community; and
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Suggests new opportunities to invest in the Muslim community as part of inclusive, equitable and responsive funding strategies.
Come hear the results of this report with featured presenters, Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley and Farid Senzai, Santa Clara University.
This program is free and open to NCG members and invited guests. Funders who work in the areas of Arts and Culture, Civic Engagement, Economic and Social Justice, Food Security, Youth Leadership, Immigrant Integration and Interfaith Understanding are encouraged to attend.
The One Nation Bay Area Project is a local collaborative funded by the Asian American and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), NCG members the Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
The San Francisco Foundation
225 Bush Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104
Presenters
Hatem Bazian, a senior lecturer in the department of Near Eastern and Ethnic studies at University of California, is co-founder and Academic Affairs Chair at Zaytuna College, the first four-year liberal arts Muslim college in the United States. Dr. Bazian is founder and co-editor-in-chief of UC Berkeley’s Islamophobia Studies Journal. From 2002 to 2007, he served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic law and society, “Islam in America: Communities and Institutions,” “De-Constructing Islamophobia and Othering of Islam,” religious studies, and Middle Eastern studies. In addition to Berkeley, Dr. Bazian is a visiting professor in religious studies at Saint Mary’s College of California and adviser to UC Berkeley’s Religion, Politics, and Globalization Center In the spring 2009, he founded at Berkeley the Center for the Study and Documentation of Islamophobia, a research unit dedicated to the systematic study of othering Islam and Muslims. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy and Islamic studies from UC Berkeley.
Farid Senzai is a fellow and the director of research at ISPU, as well as an assistant professor of political science at Santa Clara University. Dr. Senzai was previously a research associate at the Brookings Institution, where he studied American foreign policy toward the Middle East, and a research analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he worked on the Muslim Politics project. He served as a consultant for Oxford Analytica and the World Bank. At the present time, Dr. Senzai serves on the advisory board of The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, where he has contributed to several national and global surveys on Muslim attitudes. His is a co-author of (Oxford University Press, 2009). His most recent book is The Complexity of Political Islam in the Age of Democratization (Palgrave, forthcoming). Dr. Senzai earned an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in politics and international relations from Oxford University.