Meaningful Money: How Financial Literacy Amplifies Your Giving
My Wake-Up CallI remember sitting in my nonprofit’s office in 2020, staring at a donor’s request: “Can you accept stock donations?” I had no idea how to answer. Despite running a successful organization, there was so much about finance I still didn’t...
Ali El Hashash: Community grocer grows with the popularity of Halal
Individuals of the Muslim faith arrived in Milwaukee at the turn of the century, and became established as a group by the 1930s. The community has seen its biggest growth over the past couple decades, as historically restrictive immigration policies were lifted...
Halal foods used as another method to target Muslims
Various reports estimate that the world-wide demand for halal-certified food and beverages will be worth between $415 billion and $3.7 trillion by 2020. Research by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is comprised of 57 Muslim-majority...
Muslim Slaves in America: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
Black History Month is an annual observance in February that started as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. This biography is part of a series that features well known enslaved African Muslims....
The Art of Vulnerability and an Epidemic of Communal Trauma
The United Nations Association – Greater Milwaukee hosted a presentation by Myron Eshowsky, MS, on February 10 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, about his work empowering refugees living in the Syrian displacement camps. The local event highlighted Eshowsky’s...
Muslim Slaves in America: Estevanico (Stephen the Moor)
Black History Month is an annual observance in February that started as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. This biography is part of a series that features well known enslaved African Muslims....
Muslim Slaves in America: Mohammed Ali Bin Said (Nicholas Said)
Black History Month is an annual observance in February that started as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. This biography is part of a series that features well known enslaved African Muslims....
Muslim university students from across the region forge bonds at Madison event
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the first ever Muslim Student Association (MSA) Showdown, which brought together the MSA groups from Madison, Marquette, and UW-Milwaukee over the weekend of February 3 and 4. More than one hundred students...
Muslim Slaves in America: Omar ibn Said
Black History Month is an annual observance in February that started as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. This biography is part of a series that features well known enslaved African Muslims....
Muslim Slaves in America: Ayuba bin Sulaiman (Job Ben Solomon)
Black History Month is an annual observance in February that started as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. This biography is part of a series that features well known enslaved African Muslims....
