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Oversight and MLPI Initiative

Muslim Life Planning and Eversight are working together to promote cornea, organ, and tissue donation among underserved communities in the United States and around the world. This initiative is focused on Muslim communities in the Detroit, Michigan area.

WitnessCommunityFeaturedWhat We Owe One Another When the World Is Watching
February 10, 2026

What We Owe One Another When the World Is Watching

Voltaire warned that the most dangerous lies are not those shouted at us, but those we quietly accept. “Those who can make you believe absurdities,” he wrote in 1765, “can make you commit atrocities.” More than two centuries later, his observation reads less like philosophy and more like diagnosis. What…
BusinessHealthEconomic Solutions for America’s Social Determinants of Health and Existence
September 15, 2025

Economic Solutions for America’s Social Determinants of Health and Existence

Robert Reich’s urgent call in “How Do We Get Out of This Mess” delivers more than a diagnosis of America’s economic malaise — it offers a blueprint for rescuing both democracy and public health. Reich makes clear that decades of deregulation, wage stagnation, corporate consolidation, and erosion of labor power have hollowed…
BusinessCommunityGovernmentWhen Policy Shrinks, Community Must Expand
August 28, 2025

When Policy Shrinks, Community Must Expand

The newly enacted “One Big Ugly Bill” may sound grand, but its impact on working families and underserved communities is anything but. It slashes over $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP, imposes burdensome work requirements, imposes six-month eligibility redeterminations, and raises co-pays for many enrollees AP NewsWikipedia. The CBO and KFF estimate that 10–12 million…
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The Institute provides multi-disciplinary educational platforms and curriculum offerings to enable healthcare and mental health professionals, and those that are responsible for other social services, to better serve the needs and interest of Muslim communities throughout the globe. Our goal is to improve the cultural competency and Islamic knowledge of healthcare and mental health professionals, and social services providers, so that they can better serve Muslims.