September 3, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
Muslim Advocates, a legal and civic-education charity in San Francisco, has released a video that provides guidance to donors who want to support Muslim charities this Ramadan and beyond.
The six-minute video, Guidance on Zakat: Law and Best Practices, instructs donors on reporting their gifts on tax returns, assessing charities, best practices of giving overseas, and other steps to ensure their gifts effectively support humanitarian causes.
The video is an effort to reassure Muslim-American donors, some of whom have become skittish as a result of government scrutiny of such nonprofit groups following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
What do you think of the video?
