In the name of Allah, compassionate & merciful بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Peace be with you السلام عليك

“In-sha-Allah (God willing), this Ramadan, I’ll simplify my Iftar to save more time for worshiping and to save some money for needy people, and I’ll reduce my throw away garbage!”  To check out Naeem Nisar Sheikh TEDx AUI (4 December 2010) powerpoint presentation GARBAGE click HERE

If you agree with this goal and want to have a wiser Ramadan for 1432 Hijr, post a comment.

Pledge #1: Simplify My Iftar: Less time, less quantities, less spending, and less garbage

References:

http://www.tedxaui.com/nns

Pledge #2: Spend my saved money 1/3 on myself and family, 1/3 for Sadaqah, and 1/3 for saving.

Some places we recommend you to donate: (come back each week for new ones)

Project 2: Building Block Emergency Assistance

Building Blocks Emergency Assistance Progam to relieve those in dire financial need.

Since 2006, the program has alleviated the hardship of more than 300 families and saved several families from eviction, utilities shut-off, and overwhelmed medical expenses. Many recipients, unfortunately, are single mothers.

Completed Projects

Project 1: Feeding needy brothers and sisters
33 DONORS donated $1186.21 to Building Blocks of NJ for iftar program at a Newark Masjid that serves more than 200 needy brothers and sisters.

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: Pursue of Grants (trying to get money from grants)

Winner: Our third award drive is for Women Affairs of Almumtahinah.

Reason: They won a grant from Zakat Foundation.

Deadline: Nov 16, 2010 Second try to get the drive accomplished.

Target: $500

*HalfDate will donate $500 if this page gets 100 Tweets by the deadline, inshaAllah.

As salaamu alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu. JazakAllahu Khayr for this wonderful opportunity. The funds raised were used for our Heating oil for one of the homes we operate (321 S.Pulaski Street). AlhamdulliAllah the sisters will have heat for a week or so. JazakAllahu Khayr for the recognition. Please visit our website ( www.almumtahinahhome.org ) and view more of our needs for both homes insha’Allah.

sister Nadia of AlMumtahina Home

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.

Update:

We need your help for feeding the homeless.

Paid the Deen Show, Feeding the Fast, Blessed Brides, Cabbie driver, Pallylife, Almadinah school, sister Aisha catering. In the process of issuing checks for AlAmaanah, Almaun fund, Building Blocks, Baitul salaam, amh women affairs.

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

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

Feeding

Feed The Street @ Toronto Homeless (non-Zakatable)

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.

• HalfOurDeen.com
• Kalimaat Game
• Creative Kids DVDs: Stories written by Muslim children
• Hurry for Baba Ali DVDs
• Homeschool children Islamic books from Ad-Duha
• Muslim Tree
• Princess Olive’s organic children toys and gifts
• Halal meatfrom Midamar Halal (use coupon LHRA10 to get 10% discount)

• Buy your Amazon product using our affiliate link http://halalbuzz.com/amazon
• Post a review on HalalTrip.com

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.

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)

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

Community

Women & Family Shelters

Needy Brides/Marriage

School

Sport

Youth n Motion

DateDrive of رجب of 1431/June 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date (financial)

Registered Non-Profit? No

Details:

Drive Deadline: July 1st, 2009

Drive Target:

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

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.

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.