Inner-City Muslim Action Network

Established in 1997, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) fosters health, wellness, and healing by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. The arts are integrated throughout IMAN’s programs and services through instructional classes, workshops, exhibitions, performances, and other creative efforts. Its Beloved Community Ceramics Studio offers ceramics classes and art therapy to community members, art students, and local creatives. IMAN maintains a roster of socially engaged artists with whom it works in a variety of ways, including its Green ReEntry program, which provides workforce development opportunities to formerly incarcerated individuals. Artists perform at its Go Green Fresh Market, participate in its Sacred Cypher Creatives Residency program, and present work at its IMANifest Arts Studios gallery space. This award provides general operating support to IMAN in the Culture, Equity, and the Arts area of the Chicago Commitment.

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing for urban populations by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. Rami Nashishibi, Executive Director of IMAN, is partnering with New York vocalist Drea D’Nur to write and produce an album that focuses on love, racial and social justice, and the struggle of historically marginalized populations. IMAN is building a tour for the album that includes live performances, artist residencies in each tour city that explore racial and social healing, and a documentary film that follows the artists and communities coming together to heal. The award provides project support to IMAN as it culminates the This Love Thing tour project.

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing for urban populations by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. Rami Nashishibi, Executive Director of IMAN, teamed up with New York vocalist Drea D’Nur to write and produce an album that focuses on love, racial and social justice, and the struggle of Black Americans and other underrepresented populations. IMAN is building a national tour for the album that includes live performances, artist residencies in each tour city that explore racial and social healing, and a documentary film that follows the artists and communities coming together to heal. The award provides project support to IMAN as it embarks on its This Love Thing Tour.

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing for urban populations by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. IMAN intertwines arts and creative practices with its broader advocacy, organizing, and leadership development work. This award provides general operating support to IMAN as part of the Foundation’s Culture, Equity, and the Arts program.

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness, and healing in the inner-city. It offers programs and services that further community development, reduce violence, and support cross-cultural understanding. With this award, IMAN staff travels to Denver, Colorado, to participate in a conference session on humanizing racial equity work at the national Grantmakers in the Arts conference.