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My Sadaqah Buffet: Ramadan 1431


2010
08.14

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Update:

We are going to give $500 to this Cabbie brother through a masjid in Bronx.

Prophet sallalahu alayi wassalam said: “Whoever relieves a Muslim of a hardship in this life, Allah will relieve him of a hardship in the Hereafter, and Allah will help His slave so much as he helps his brother.”

Prophet (صلى الله عليه و سلم) also said: The believers are like a body: if one organ complained/hurt the rest of the body reacted.”

Matching Challenge

  1. If 10 people donated for each team by Sunday Aug 29, HalfDate will donate $200 (Team 1 and Team 3 met the challenge and each got extra $200 matching
  2. For every $50 or more donated, we are matching it $1 for $1 till $5000 total (starting Ramadan 18th) – For your donation to be matched, click here to post a comment
  3. For every unemployed/needy person donation, we will match double up to 1000 total (starting Ramadan 18th) – For your donation to be matched, click here to post a comment (mention if you are unemployed/needy)

What this DateDrive has:

  • We have donor teams competition based on regions, so donate on behalf one of the teams.
  • You check out the buffet menu (projects listed below)
  • You donate again :)
  • You do some shopping -click here- (and post a comment and we will donate $10 on your behalf)
  • You vote for the project poll -click here-(the winning project gets the donation earlier)

Sadaqah Race

InshaAllah, you are going to have a geographical race for the highest donation. Click on the donate button depends on which team you want to support :)

Team 1: North & South America

$ 1535.75 / 3000 raised

Donate:


Team 2: Europe & Africa

$ 1002 / 1000 raised
The donation goal has been reached. Thank you for your support!

Team 3: Asia & Australia

$ 1501 / 3000 raised

Donate:

We will give the raised money to the following projects, at least $500 per project, inshaAllah (more projects are being listed).


Community


Feeding

Feed The Street @ Toronto Homeless (non-Zakatable)

Women & Family Shelters

Needy Brides/Marriage

School

Sport

Youth n Motion

Ramadan/Eid Shopping

Stimulating the Halal Economy by Shopping

If you buy from the following vendors, post a comment here and we will donate $10 for each purchase/comment.

Other Ways To Help:

Sponsors

Poll

Vote for Projects’ creativity and closeness to your heart. Whenever we collect $500 donations, we will give based on poll’s result. Winner(s) are announced and the poll is reset on each Friday.

My Top 5 projects

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Check poll winners for previous week

Winners of poll

Refugees (qualify for Zakah, but please give them directly and state when you donate)

Day to Day Help

Women & Domestic Violence

Feed The Fasting @ Masjid Al-Aqsa (qualifies as Fidyah)

Dawah (might qualify for Zakah)

Development (qualify for Zakah, but please state when you donate)

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Multiple rewards with one action


2010
07.23

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May Allah reward all those who helped. You have given $1314 through paypal/chipin and $100 by check. If you still want to help, we are looking to build a website for “Islam for school teachers” to service any requests for these DVDs (instead of going through public libraries).

مَا نَقَصَتْ صَدَقَةٌ مِنْ مَالٍ
Sadaqah never decreases wealth

-Authentic Hadith collected in Sahih Muslim

DateDrive of شعبان of 1431/July-Aug 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date or a pleasant word (financial and word of mouth)
Country: US & Canada

Summary:

There is a Muslim school and masjid in the inner city of Los Angeles that is in dire need to pay for their teachers, the principal and water/electricity bills for both the masjid and school. They have an urgent need for $6000. However, you can’t donate to them directly through this drive, why? Because we want to encourage YOU (Muslim) to explore some other Sadaqah venues. What about the school and the poor teachers? Well, a group of brothers will cover school’s need inshaAllah, IF YOU & other HalfDaters accomplish the goal of this drive: Donate a DVD of “Creative Kids: Stories written by Muslim kids” to your local library. Help native children after school program. [This part is postponed because their event is in October]

How Multiple Rewards?

  1. The DVD content is written by Muslim children; and it’s time for us to encourage our children to develop their talents in terms of storytelling and writing skills.
  2. Dawah through stories is a good way to share our Islamic values. Here is a sample about fasting.
  3. This DVD title is professionally produced by a revert couple. We need to support their Dawah work and buying a DVD and spreading it is the least we can do for their contributions to the Ummah.

Drive Deadline: Aug 15

Drive Target: Distribute 100 DVDs.

Action:

  • Ask your local library if they accepts DVD donations. If they do, ask them for the procedure. If public library doesn’t accept, you can donate one to an Islamic school or gift it to a non-Muslim school teacher.
  • If you are in the US, the wholesale price of the DVD is $10 plus $6 shipment for up to 3 DVDs that fit a priority envelope.
  • For outside the US, buy the DVD at http://ckstories.com/
  • Post a comment stating which library that you have donated. Click here to leave a comment.
  • If you just want to donate a copy and let us gift your copy away, click on chip in:

Drive Sponsors:

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Sharing the burden, Sharing the fruits


2010
06.05

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DateDrive of رجب of 1431/June 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date (financial)

Registered Non-Profit? No

“Whosoever removes a world grief from a believer, Allaah will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of Judgment” -Collected by Al-Bukhari and Muslim

Details:

Drive Deadline: July 1st, 2009

Drive Target:

يا قبيصة ! إن المسألة لا تحل إلا لأحد ثلاثة : رجل تحمل حمالة فتحل له المسألة حتى يصيبها ثم يمسك ، ورجل أصابته جائحة اجتاحت ماله فحلت له المسألة ، حتى يصيب قواما من عيش ، ورجل أصابته فاقة حتى يقول ثلاثة من ذوي الحجا من قومه : لقد أصاب فلانا فاقة ، فحلت له المسألة حتى يصيب قواما من عيش ، ثم يمسك ، فما سواهن من المسألة فسحت ، يأكلها صاحبها سحتا
صحيح الجامع

According to this Hadith collected in Sahih Muslim, one cannot ask for Sadaqah unless he is in dire need and should ask to the extend that suffice him. So, we are only going to ask you to help pay off the loan of the needy doctor, whom we lent several months back and now, HalfDate needs to pay back the lender and we need a helping hand.

We have also asked a shaikh, and he said as for community service organizations and projects that needs collective efforts, it’s okay to ask for such projects in the West. However, HalfDate still feel uncomfortable to ask, may Allah help us to sustain such a project by our admins. If you want to share the rewards and volunteer or help out, that’s your call. May Allah help us all and accept from all of us.

  • Help HalfDate pay off the loan of the needy people in Canada and USA $3700
Sponsors

Ajwa Date Level Sponsorship

KnowInterest.com

Alexandrite Level Sponsorship

HalalBuzz.com

Diamond Level Sponsorship

Summary: Over the last few months, you have noticed that HalfDate has slowed down in its growth, part of it was due to lack of full time staff (even that we have over 10 admins working tirelessly Alhamdulillah, but we still can’t meet the demand). Another reason that slowed us is the financial burden. This project is totally ran by private donors and we have lent some money to several worthy/needy people and they couldn’t pay back. So, if you think this palm tree deserves to survive and grow, please support us.

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World Wide House Party


2010
04.19

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DateDrive of ربيع الأول إلى جمادى الأولى of 1431/April-May 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date or a pleasant word (financial and word of mouth)
Country: UK is the beneficiary, but activities are world wide, inshaAllah

Summary:

Have you ever been sat in traffic and been facing an advert about random product, and thought would it not be brilliant if this advert was calling people to Allah? Have you ever wanted to invite thousands of people for iftaar in Ramadan and not have had the means to do so? Well if so, stop wondering, HalfDate and its partners have designed a global campaign, World House Party Day, to make this a reality this Ramadan. To be piloted this year in the UK before a global rollout, HalfDate wants you all to register a party at www.justgoparty.com to help make this project real and along the way win yourself, an iPAD, $1000 for the charity of your choice and a full season urban wear collection from Islamic Design House.

Drive Deadline: May 15

The event will be on the 15th of May in your city!

Drive Target:

Drive Sponsors:

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I dare to dream


2010
03.05

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DateDrive of ربيع الأول of 1431/Mar 2010

Type of DateDrive: Pleasant Word (non-financials)
Country: Al-Bahrain (wooohooo)

Summary:

I’ve a very small favor to ask of you. I’m working on a project in my uni called “I have a dream”. The main idea behind this is to wake up the Muslim youth into starting to dream for themselves and for the world and to contribute positively to society. I’ll be helping to make a “Dream Arch”. An arch made with dreams on small rectangular pieces of paper and for that I need a lot of dreams. I would be really grateful if you could send me just one of your dreams that you hope to achieve for yourself or for the world in general. Please don’t forget to write your name and your country if you wish to send your dream. I really hope you can help me in this. Thank you very much. :)

Drive Deadline: March 15

The event will be on the 17th of April, at the Bahrain City Centre, one of the biggest malls in Bahrain.

Drive Target:

Drive Sponsors:

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Creativity Award: AlMaun Fund


2010
02.24

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HalfDate is starting a new initiative called: Award Drives. Basically, these are quick drives to recognize the service of organizations and individuals. The goal of the award is to encourage Muslim organizations to pursue excellence while thinking outside the box.

One of these award categories is: Creativity (trying to get money other than donations)

Winner: Our second award drive is for AlMaun Fund.

Reason: They raised $272.25 by asking their supports to post reviews on InsiderPages.

Deadline: Mar 3, 2010

Target: $300

*HalfDate will donate $50 if this page gets 50 Tweets by the deadline.

If you want to join the matching fund, post a comment and we will contact you.

How to donate:

  1. Click on Chipin button, this will take you to a PayPal payment page.
  2. Once you are directed to the PayPal checkout page enter the amount of donation.
  3. For PayPal you will have 2 options for payment:
    1. Pay with your existing PayPal account
    2. If you do not have a PayPal account you may use your credit card or bank account.

You don’t have to sign up with PayPal, you can also just make a one-time purchase using your card/check.

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