Islamic Relief USA is a California-based international Islamic nonprofit agency founded in 1984. It operates projects in education and training, water and sanitation, income generation, orphan support, health and nutrition, and emergency relief in foreign countries and in the U.S. It has a four-star rating from Charity Navigator.

Helping Hand USA is an Islamic global humanitarian relief and development organization that focuses on Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Kenya and Iraq. Its American office is in Detroit.

Read a March 28, 2008, USA Today article on Islamic loans becoming a profitable business for U.S. banks.

Read an April 22, 2009, Houston Chronicle story about Muslim home mortgages.

Read a Nov. 3, 2007, Los Angeles Times story about a Muslim health clinic.

Read an April 25, 2008, Arab American News article about Muslim health clinics.

Abdul Basit, a clinical psychologist, is assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University in Chicago. A former Fulbright Scholar, he is the former editor in chief of the Journal of Muslim Mental Health and a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council.

Lance D. Laird is a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. With Wendy Cadge, he is the author of the 2008 study “Caring for Our Neighbors: How Muslim Community-Based Health Organizations are Bridging the Health Care Gap in America,” the first report to document the development and growth of Muslim health-care organizations in the U.S. They […]

The Nathan Kline Institute posts guidelines for Muslim mental health services. It’s in Orangeburg, N.Y.