Icna Dallas
About Icna Dallas
Icna Dallas is the kind of place where Islamic education sits right next to a food pantry, a health clinic, and support for families who need a hand. Across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it serves converts, youth, refugees, women, and underserved residents with relief, outreach, and community care. If you want to support work that is both spiritually grounded and immediately useful, this is a clear one to care about.
What sets Icna Dallas apart is how locally specific its work is. One day it is offering dawah training and free Qurans, the next it is helping refugee families with food, supporting foster families, or creating space for new Muslims through Embrace. That range gives the organization a very real neighborhood footprint in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Dawah outreach
Provides free Qurans, brochures, and flyers, runs dawah booths around the Greater Dallas area, hosts open houses, places billboards, and offers dawah training and workshops.
Embrace
A convert-led initiative for Muslim converts that offers weekly halaqahs, Islam 101 classes, social programs, Ramadan iftar programs, Eid programs, potlucks, and an annual convert conference.
ICNA Council for Social Justice
Works on social justice and human rights issues through education, advocacy, and mobilization on criminal justice, immigration, poverty, Islamophobia, global injustice, and Muslim prisoners.
AMAL Institute
Provides educational opportunities to build leadership skills grounded in Islamic principles, along with community outreach, engagement, and partnerships.
Oak Cliff Empowerment Center
Offers youth mentorship, community resource support, educational workshops, Islamic education, and dawah and outreach in Oak Cliff and beyond.
ICNA Relief food pantry and feed the hungry
Distributes food to local residents, including refugee families and homeless people across the DFW metroplex.
Financial assistance
Provides financial assistance to individuals and other nonprofit organizations.
Assistance for refugees
Supports refugees through education, training, and collaboration with other nonprofit organizations in the Dallas metroplex.
Half Way Houses
Provides shelter and continued Islamic education for reverts who were previously incarcerated and now need transitional support.
Free health clinics
Offers free basic medical services to community members without health insurance.
Donate a Car
Facilitates vehicle donations for families that need mobility but cannot afford it.
FATE Foster
Assists Muslim children in the foster system through advocacy, counseling, education, and support for foster families.
Young Muslims
A youth organization with local groups that connects Muslim youth through a national network.
ICNA Sisters
Provides Islamic education and training to women of all races and backgrounds, along with outreach and moral support.
About this work
In their own words — what they do, who it reaches, and what your dollars actually fund.
Mission
To strengthen the bond of humanity through Islamic service, religious guidance, workshops, prayer services, free distribution of religious materials, education, outreach, and relief.
Who they serve
Muslim and non-Muslim communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including converts, youth, women, refugees, families, and underserved residents.
Their impact
- More than 1,000 lbs of food is distributed each month through the Food Pantry.
- More than 500 refugee families receive food support.
- 5000+ families served annually.
- 300+ students in Islamic education.
- $500K+ distributed in charity.
- 50+ community programs.
How your donation helps
- Masjid operations, utilities, and maintenance
- Islamic education, Quran classes, and youth development
- Community support, food, shelter, and essential services
- Dawah outreach materials and activities
- Oak Cliff Empowerment Center programs
- Social justice and advocacy work
- Convert support through Embrace
- Leadership development through AMAL Institute
Need help?
How someone in need can access Icna Dallas’s services.
People seeking assistance can contact ICNA Dallas at info@icnadallas.org or 972-265-9794, or use the contact page to reach the chapter about relief, refugee, food, and community support programs.
In their words
To strengthen the bond of humanity.
Our mission is to deliver the message of Islam through service and empowerment while building a strong, resilient community in Oak Cliff and beyond.
Events
Dallas Muslim Festival
annualAn outdoor Muslim festival with rides, entertainment, bazaar booths, and halal food.
Quiz Competition
annualAn annual competition on essential Islamic knowledge and skills for youth.
Ramadan Last Ten Nights
annualA seasonal worship and fundraising period focused on prayer, charity, Quran, and community support.
Annual Convert Conference
annualA gathering that unites converts around issues relevant to the convert community.
Convert Neighbor Nets
weeklyWeekly convert-led gatherings in Euless and Richardson.
Open Dawah House
recurringOpen-house style dawah events in locations across the Dallas area.
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Icna Dallas has shared.
Current needs
- Volunteers to staff dawah booths
- Volunteers for the FIFA 2026 dawah team
- Car donations
Volunteer opportunities
- Staff dawah booths around the Greater Dallas area
- Join the FIFA 2026 dawah team
- Help at open houses and dawah outreach events
Partners & funders
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
What does Embrace provide for new Muslims?
Embrace gives new Muslims a steady place to land, with weekly convert-led halaqahs, an 8-week Islam 101 class, social programs, Ramadan iftar programs, Eid programs, seasonal potlucks, and an annual convert conference.
How does ICNA Dallas carry out dawah outreach?
It shares Islam through dawah booths, open houses, billboards, free Qurans, brochures, flyers, and training that helps people ask questions and get answers.
What support is available through ICNA Relief Dallas?
ICNA Relief Dallas offers a food pantry, feed-the-hungry support, car donation assistance, foster-care support through FATE, halfway house shelter, and free basic medical services.
What services does Oak Cliff Empowerment Center offer?
Oak Cliff Empowerment Center offers youth mentorship, community resource support, educational workshops, Islamic education, and dawah and outreach activities.
What is AMAL Institute focused on?
AMAL Institute focuses on leadership development through educational opportunities, community outreach and engagement, and partnerships that help people tackle societal challenges.
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